Analog 2012

Jimenez Lai works in the world of art, architecture, and education. Lai has lived multiple lives, working in a desert shelter at Taliesin, residing in a shipping container in Rotterdam, and working with MOS and OMA. Now, as founding partner of Bureau Spectacular, his work continues to set stages for human stories.

Sean Lally is educated and trained in architecture as well as landscape architecture and is a tenured professor of architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Lally is the author of The Air from Other Planets: A Brief History of Architecture to Come. He is the editor and contributor to two earlier book projects (Softspace: From a Representation of Form to a Simulation of Space, Routldege (2006), eds. Sean Lally and Jessica Young and ENERGIES: New Material Boundaries, Wiley Press (2009), ed. Sean Lally) and recipient of The Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome in Landscape Architecture and the Young Architects Award from the New York Architectural League. Lally hosts a biweekly podcast called “Night White Skies.”

Dieter Roelstraete is the Manilow Senior Curator at the MCA. From 2003 until February of 2012 he was the Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, Belgium, where he organized large-scale group exhibitions and monographic shows. Roelstraete is an editor of Afterall and a contributing editor to A Prior Magazine, and has published extensively on contemporary art and philosophical issues in numerous catalogues and journals including Artforum, Frieze, and Mousse Magazine.

Sam Vinz, along with Claire Warner, runs Volume Gallery, an event-based gallery with a specific focus on American design, and a strong emphasis placed on emerging contemporary designers. Sam graduated with a BA in Art History from UW-Madison with an emphasis in twentieth century European architecture. He completed his MA in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute in London, writing his dissertation on an analysis of the contemporary design market. Sam has spent time working at Phillips de Pury, Carpenter’s workshop gallery, Wright Auction, and Chase Art Companies. Other than art and design, his interests pertain to anything loud and fast—rock n roll and Nascar being at the top of the list.