Hans Belting has been Professor of Art History at the universities of Heidelberg and Munich and has taught at Harvard, Columbia, Northwestern, and the cole des Hautes tudes in Paris. He is a cofounder of the Karlsruhe University for Arts and Design (Hochschule f r Gestaltung). Andrea Buddensieg is Curator and Project Manager of ZKM's GAM (Global Art and the Museum) project, from which the research for this publication emerged. Peter Weibel is Chairman and CEO of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. With Bruno Latour, he coedited ICONOCLASH and Making Things Public as well as other ZKM volumes, including, most recently, Sound Art and Global Activism (all published by the MIT Press).
[T]he book covers a lot of historical ground, taking that tectonic year 1989 as its starting point and using the explosion of international biennials and triennials for an art-world map utterly different from the one that existed a generation or two ago.-The New York Times Style Magazine