1. —Contributors

Edit András

art historian and art critic, Budapest/Long Island

Edit András PhD, is an art historian and art critic, holding a PhD from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. She has worked as a curator in the Hungarian National Gallery, and as an editor in the Corvina Publishing House, Budapest. Since 1987 she has been working at the Research Institute for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, recently as a senior research fellow. Her main interest concerns modern and contemporary Russian, Eastern and Central European art, gender issues, public art, conceptual art and art theory in the time of transition in the post-socialist countries. She has published numerous essays in different languages on issues of contemporary art and theory as well as she has participated in different international conferences. In 2001 she was invited as a keynote speaker to the AICA conference in Zagreb entitled Strategies of Power. She continuously teach at different Hungarian Universities and at the Education Abroad Program of University of California, Budapest Study Center. In 2008 she participated in the WUS (World University Lecture Series) dedicated to the topic Writing Central European art history, given at different Universities through the ex Eastern Block. In 2009 she gave courses at Tallin Art Academy and Brastislava Art Academy. Her recent book entitled Cultural Cross Dressing. Art in the Ruins of Socialism, Argumentum, Budapest, 2009 (in Hungarian). She is the editor of anthology Transitland. Video art from the Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2009. In 2008 she got the art criticism award of the Hungarian section of AICA. She lives and works in Budapest and in Long Island, USA