Michelle Kuo is Chief Curator at Large and Publisher at The Museum of Modern Art. She is the curator of Jack Whitten: The Messenger; and leads interdisciplinary work on temporary and collection exhibitions, digital initiatives, research and scholarship, and acquisitions for the Museum’s collection, and directs MoMA’s global publications program. Kuo joined MoMA in 2018 as the Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture. Recent exhibitions and collaborations include Otobong Nkanga: Cadence (2024–25), Artist’s Choice: Grace Wales Bonner—Spirit Movers (2024), among others. She has written and lectured widely; her publications include Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (2024), she serves on the advisory board of the Museum Brandhorst, Munich, and the journal October.

Associate professor of visual culture at Montclair State University Charlotte Kent, PhD, is an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail, and a contributor to assorted books on art and technology, including as co-editor of Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art (Intellect Books, 2024), co-author of Midnight Moment: A Decade of Artists in Times Square (Monacelli Press, 2024), and editor of Generation to Generation (Vetro, 2026). She is the recipient of grants from NEH and Google Art + Machine Intelligence, with a forthcoming book on contemporary art and technoabsurdity. She is a member of the College Art Association’s Committee on Intellectual Property.