Martha Schwendener is an art historian and an art critic for The New York Times. She is a visiting associate professor at New York University and a researcher in residence at the Vilém Flusser Archive, Berlin. She is the editor of Vilém Flusser’s Essays // Artforum (Metaflux, 2017) and her criticism and essays have been published in Artforum, Art in America, Afterimage, The Brooklyn Rail, Bookforum, Critical Inquiry, The New Yorker, October, and many other publications.

Lucas Blalock is a photographer working at the intersection of new media and post-conceptual art. Exhibition highlights include An Enormous Oar at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the 2019 Whitney Biennial, and Ocean of Images: 2015 New Photography at the Museum of Modern Art. Blalock is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Bard College, a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, and the author of Why Must the Mounted Messenger Be Mounted?