Tom Grimwood is a Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Cultural Theory at the University of Cumbria. His research focuses on cultural hermeneutics, and in particular the formative role of ambiguity within acts of interpretation. He has applied this to a range of subjects, from the work of irony in Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, to the paradoxes of embodiment in Simone de Beauvoir and Catherine of Siena; in journals such as Angelaki, The Journal for Cultural Research, Feminist Theology and the British Journal for the History of Philosophy.

Martin Lang is a faculty member in the School of Further Education at the University for the Creative Arts and an Associate Lecturer, in both Fine Art and History & Philosophy of Art, at the University of Kent. He is a practicing artist and has exhibited in the US, Europe and the UK. Recent exhibitions include: The Creekside Open, APT, London (selected by Dexter Dalwood); A.R.G. (the Art Regeneration Unit) at Arcadia Missa, London; and ko-ax Photo, Mascalls Gallery, Kent (selected by Tate curator of photography Simon Baker). His currently research focusses on contemporary Militant Art and Art Activism. (www.martinlang.org.uk)