MANUPORN LUENGARAM
Manuporn LUENGARAM is a Bangkok-based curator and researcher with nearly three decades of experience in the regional art scene. Her extensive career includes co-curating the Thailand Biennale Chiang Rai 2023 and holding key roles at art institutions such as Dib Bangkok, the Jim Thompson Art Center, The Queen’s Gallery, and About Art Related Activities.
Manuporn formerly managed Arts Network Asia (ANA), a Singapore-based arts network and grant body dedicated to fostering cross-border collaboration and exchange within Asia. As a researcher, she co-edited “the anthology of Southeast Asian Contemporary Art (Thai edition)”, published by Thailand’s Ministry of Culture (2015) and served on the editorial committee for National Gallery Singapore’s “The Modern in Southeast Asian Art: A Reader”(2023).
RIZKI LAZUARDI
Rizki LAZUARDI is a visual artist and film programmer who works extensively with moving images and expanded cinema. His artistic practice often sheds light on the idea of institutional and state power embedded in images. Institutional archives and footage of tangible media have been frequently utilized in his films and installation. His latest exhibition and screening include Singapore Biennale Pure Intention 2025, “Lingua Franca” at Tokyo Art and Space Hongo and “Beyond Provenance” at Wereldmuseum Amsterdam. Apart from his studio practice, Lazuardi curates and advises programs for film festivals, among others, Berlinale Forum, Hamburg Short Films Festivals, and Image Forum Tokyo. He finished his postgrad in film at the HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg. Lazuardi lives and works in Bandung, Indonesia.
TAN HUI KOON
TAN Hui Koon is currently the chief senior curator of the National Art Gallery Malaysia’s Collection and Conservation Section. Since 2011 as an institution curator, her diverse curatorial practices included community art projects, National Collections Permanent Exhibitions, artist solo shows, SEA new media and contemporary exhibitions. She was one of the invited jurors for UOB Painting of the Year 2020. From 2022 to the present, she focuses on the National Collection acquisitions committee, preventive and curative conservation laboratory practice, research on National Cultural and Arts Properties safeguard policies and networks.
She obtained a Diploma in Visual and Digital Art from Limkokwing University, BA (Hon) in Fine Art from University Science Malaysia (USM) in 2007. Six-Month Conservation Training on Cultural Property (Diploma) from the National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property (NRLC), Ministry of Culture of India (2024–2025).
IRIS LONG
Iris LONG is a writer and curator whose work explores the megastructures of science and technology in China and the psycho-geography of techno-science. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Advanced Practices Programme at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a 2022–2023 Berggruen Fellow, Swissnex Fellow, Fellow at the Royal Astronomical Society. Her curatorial projects span art, science, and technology. Her research has been presented internationally at institutions such as the Warburg Institute, UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, ISEA, ZKM and so on.
JOEL KWONG
Joel KWONG is an international media art curator and producer. She is the Programme Director for Microwave (www.microwavefest.net), an experienced practitioner in media arts & advertising for more than 18 years. She is also the founder of SIBYLS, a creative consultation & production company since 2018. She has been curating numerous media art projects, most recent projects include “In the Time of Hope” media art x mental wellness showcase 2026, HKDI Gallery presents “Pluriversal Futures” 2025–2026, Microwave 2025 annual edition “Walk Through Walls”, Arts Tech 4.0 “the Light House”, “Through the lens of” at Chengdu Art Museum 2024 etc. She has been given talks in various festivals and institutions, including SIGGRAPH Asia, Shenzhen Media Art Festival, ACT Festival in Gwangju, Korea, National University of Taiwan, the University of Electro-communications in Tokyo, FILMART, Entertainment EXPO in Hong Kong, etc.
RITIKA BISWAS
Ritika BISWAS is a curator, artistic researcher, and writer from Kolkata who lives and works nomadically. She works on and via ecological criticism, experimental kinships, necropolitics, and questions of justice. Along with artist collective Chander Haat, she will curate the next Bengal Biennale (2026–27).
Holding a Liberal Arts degree from Yale-NUS College and an MPhil in Film and Screen Studies from the University of Cambridge, Ritika was a curator at New Art Exchange Gallery (Nottingham, UK) from 2019–2021 and Artistic Director for the 2021 Sea Art Festival, Non-/Human Assemblages (Busan Biennale).
Selected recent exhibitions include “—scape” (Gallery 88 Mumbai), “Spectres of Our Own Making” (15th Gwangju Biennale), “Nine Nodes of Non-Being” (421 Arts Campus Abu Dhabi), “the digital research platform Littoral Chronicle” (2023–ongoing). She was the 2024 Curator-in-Residence at Fondation Fiminco, Paris and 2022 International Research Fellow at MMCA Seoul.
WU DAR-KUEN
WU Dar-Kuen currently serves as Director of the Contemporary Art Platform and General Administration at Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB). Previously, he was Director of Taipei Artist Village and Treasure Hill Artist Village, Founding Chairman of the Taiwan Art Space Alliance (TASA), and Chief Curator at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts. His practice bridges art and social engagement, reflecting on Asian social conditions and exploring “art without borders” amid globalization and neoliberalism.
He has completed residencies at NIFCA (Finland, 2002), Location One and ISCP (New York, 2005–2006), Tokyo Wonder Site (2008), and Open Space Bae (Busan, 2009). In 2004, he received Asian Cultural Council grants and the Yageo Tech-Art Award. Notable curatorial projects include “Republic without People” (2011, Jury’s Special Prize, 10th Taishin Arts Award), “Roppongi Crossing 2016” (Mori Art Museum), and recent exhibitions at C-LAB and international biennales.
DO TUONG LINH
DO Tuong Linh is an independent curator, researcher, and writer with academic training from VNUFA, SOAS (Alphawood Scholar), and Bard CCS (2025). Her work since 2005 spans the 12th Berlin Biennale and diverse exhibitions and collaborative art projects across Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Europe and beyond.
LEONHARD BARTOLOMEUS MANUBABA
Leonhard BARTOLOMEUS (barto) is a curator at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM). After graduating, he joined ruangrupa (and later became part of Gudskul Ekosistem). Working with ruangrupa, he developed an interest in the intersection between art, education, and community engagement, which then influenced many of his curatorial projects, such as Kolektif Kurator Kampung (2017–2021), Kurikulab: Moving Class (2021, YCAM), The Flavour of Power (2022, YCAM), Speculative Library (2023, YCAM), Iida Kaido Kikitori Art Project (2024), Dance Floor as Study Room (2024, YCAM), PROJECT MRT: Natureless Solution (2025, YCAM), and “Roppongi Crossing 2025” (2025, Mori Art Museum).
SUBASH THEBE LIMBU
Subash THEBE LIMBU is a Yakthung (Limbu) artist from Yakthung Nation (Limbuwan), located in present-day eastern Nepal. He works with film, sound, music, and painting. His Yakthung name is ᤋᤠᤱᤛᤠᤱ Tangsang (Sky).
Drawing from socio-political issues, resistance and science/speculative fiction, his works engage the notion of time, climate change, and indigeneity through the critical lens of Adivasi Futurisms, a framework he has been developing over several years.
His recent projects, “Ningwasum” (2021) and “Ladhamba Tayem; Future Continuous” (2023), have been presented at major international platforms including Tate Modern (London), the Asia Pacific Triennial (Brisbane), and the Sharjah Biennale (Sharjah), among others.
Subash is a co-founding member of Yakthung Cho (Yakthung Art Society), and is currently based between Kathmandu (Newa-Tamsaling) and the United Kingdom.
DR. SHWETAL A. PATEL
Shwetal A. PATEL, PhD works at the intersection of visual art and interdisciplinary research. A founding member of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, he has played a central role in its development and, since 2015, has served as a consultant to the Kochi Biennale Foundation, focusing on international partnerships and programme development.
In 2020, he completed a practice-based PhD at the Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton), examining how biennales are created and sustained. He has lectured at institutions including Zürich University of the Arts, Royal College of Art, and University of Exeter.
zzyw
zzyw, founded by Yang WANG and Zhenzhen QI in New York in 2014, is a research and art initiative that serves as an umbrella name for both of their collaborative and individual projects. zzyw leverages critical technical practice and speculative inquiry to challenge hegemonic technological constructs. Through software prototypes, writing, and pedagogical initiatives, zzyw explores the cultural, political, ecological, and educational imprints of modern computing systems while envisioning alternative, more communal and ethical technical futures.
exonemo
exonemo is an artist duo formed by Kensuke SEMBO and Yae AKAIWA in 1996. Active since the early Internet era and now based in New York, they traverse the boundaries between digital and analog, physical and informational realms. Their work explores the transformations of a networked society with sharp critical insight and humor. Recipients of the Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica (2006) and Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs Art Encouragement Prize (2021), they have gained international recognition, including an online exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2019) and a major solo show at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (2020). They also organize “The Internet Yami-Ichi,” a flea market of internet culture held in over 30 cities worldwide.
