- Allison Arieff and Andrew Wagner, editors of Dwell, Palo Alto, California
- Robert Atkins, writer/cultural activist, New York
- Geoffrey Batchen, photography theorist, New York
- Gregg Bordowitz, artist/writer, Chicago
- Bill Brown, writer/scholar, Chicago
- Maurizio Cattelan, artist, New York
- James Clifford, theorist/writer, UC Santa Cruz
- Matthew Coolidge, director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Culver City
- Meg Cranston, artist, Los Angeles
- Teddy Cruz, scholar/urban theorist, San Diego and Tijuana
- Chris Daley, activist, San Francisco
- Mike Davis, urban theorist, Los Angeles
- Mark Dery, cultural critic, New York
- Johanna Drucker, book artist/scholar/poet, University of Virginia
- Andrea Fraser, artist, New York
- Meshac Gaba, artist, Rotterdam
- Malik Gaines, art critic/writer, Los Angeles
- Berin Golonu, curator and writer, San Francisco
- Guillermo Gomez Peña, artist/theorist, San Francisco
- Michelle Grabner, painter/art critic, Chicago
- Marina Grzinic, artist, writer, and curator, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Hans Haacke, artist, New York
- Fritz Haeg, architect/curator, Sundown Salon, Los Angeles
- Manray Hsu, independent curator/art critic, Taipei/Berlin
- Natalia Ilyin, designer/writer, Seattle
- Alfredo Jaar, artist, New York
- Gary Kornblau, art critic/writer, Los Angeles
- Miwon Kwon, art critic/writer, Los Angeles
- Pamela Lee, writer/historian, Stanford University
- Thomas Lawson, editor of Afterall, Los Angeles
- Dinh Q. Le, artist, Ho Chi Minh City
- James Luna, artist, La Jolla Reservation
- Greil Marcus, writer/music historian, Berkeley
- Susan McCabe, cultural critic, Univeristy of Southern California
- Trinh T. Minh-Ha, critic/filmmaker, Berkeley
- Os Gemeos, artists, Sao Paolo
- David Pagel, art critic, Los Angeles
- Kymberly Pinder, writer/scholar, New York
- Rick Poynor, designer, critic, and writer, London
- Walid Raad, artist, New York
- Andrew Ross, theorist/writer, New York University
- Joel Sanders, architect/theorist, New York
- Barry Schwabsky, art critic/poet, London
- David Serlin, theorist/writer, UC San Diego
- Gregory Sholette, critical theorist/artist, New York
- Santiago Sierra, artist, Mexico City
- Kaja Silverman, cultural theorist, Berkeley
- Lorna Simpson, artist, New York
- Kathryn Smith, artist, Johannesburg
- Rebecca Solnit, writer, San Francisco
- Eugenie Tsai, independent curator, New York
- Jeffrey Vallance, artist, Los Angeles
- Hamza Walker, curator/art critic, Chicago
- Deborah Willis, historian/curator, New York
- Fred Wilson, artist, New York
- Andrea Zittel, artist/designer, Los Angeles, Joshua Tree, and Brooklyn