Madeleine Grynsztejn is the Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Michael Darling is the James W. Alsdorf chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Chelsea Foxwell is assistant professor of art history at the University of Chicago. Reuben Keehan is curator of contemporary Asian art at Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia. Michael Dylan Foster is associate professor of folklore at Indiana University at Bloomington. Akira Mizuta Lippit is Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts, and Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California Dornsife College, and in the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Nobuo Tsuji is the premier authority on Japanese aesthetics, having studied the topic for nearly a half century.

His unique perspective has helped him to illuminate a previously unstudied elements in the country's aesthetic traditions, including certain eccentric techniques of expression found in Japanese art, decorative elements and animism. ed elements in the country's aesthetic traditions, including certain eccentric techniques of expression found in Japanese art, decorative elements and animism.ed elements in the country's aesthetic traditions, including certain eccentric techniques of expression found in Japanese art, decorative elements and animism.ed elements in the country's aesthetic traditions, including certain eccentric techniques of expression found in Japanese art, decorative elements and animism.