Bilqis Hijjas is the founder of Balletbase, a not for profit contemporary ballet company.  She is also responsible for the dance programme at Rimbun Dahan, a centre for developing traditional and contemporary art forms just outside of Kuala Lumpur. She joins ARTERI as a contributing editor on contemporary dance. She blogs at http://kldancewatch.wordpress.com/

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Lydia Chai is an artist and writer currently based in Auckland. She is interested in the form and idea of roots and footnotes, their rhizomic qualities, while extending the metaphor to relations between people. She also manages the online Malaysian Art Database (http://database.lydiachai.com).

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Bernice Chauly is a writer/poet/photographer and lecturer. She is currently writing and researching a literary autobiography of her Chinese and Punjabi family diasporas, part of her M.A in Creative Writing at the English Dept of University Malaya. To view more of Bernice’s work, please visit her blog: bernicechauly.wordpress.com.

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Sharon Chin is an artist who also writes on art. Working across text, sculpture, video and performance, especially in site-specific installations, her work looks at how we negotiate geography, history, human relations and language in the contemporary imagination.

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Kelvin Chuah is an artist, curator, lecturer and writer based in Kuala Lumpur. He is currently researching and reading into the art history and contemporary art of Southeast Asia.

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CIPAN are Dill Malik and Chi Too.

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Chi Too makes films for fun, love, and activism. In his free time, he ekes an living off editing video. His films include Paradise Bus, The Chinese Dilemma, While You Were Eating, Just Pretend, Goodbye Luang Phabang, Out Of The Closet, and more. He photographs, paints, draws, writes, and hug trees. He also sells T-shirts.

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Dill Malik has always wanted to be an artist since her kindergarten days – until one day her friend asked, “Artis? Macam Ziana Zain?” 16 years after recovering from the traumatising remark, she is now studying and freelancing in various fields related to art.

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Erna Dyanty is a photographer and exhibitions manager.

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Fahmi Fadzil adalah seorang penulis dan penggiat seni persembahan. Dia merupakan ahli kumpulan teater Five Arts Centre, penyelaras kumpulan eksperimentasi Projek Wayang, dan rakan kongsi di studio grafik Bright Lights At Midnight.

# Are We There Yet?? (http://awty.wordpress.com)
# Projek Wayang (http://projekwayang.blogspot.com)
# Bright Lights At Midnight – Graphic Design & Multimedia (http://blam.com.my)
# The Fairly Current Show (http://www.popteevee.net)

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Faisal Mustaffa is not trained as an arts reviewer but his passion towards it motivates him to do so. His writings can be read at faisalmustaffa.org.

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Faizal Sidik is a curator of the Balai Senilukis Negara (National Art Gallery, Malaysia). Trawling the archives of our national collection, he blogs about them at http://faizalsidik.blogspot.com/

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Fashionaddict is a journalist from Singapore who muses about fashion in her spare time on her blog. When not working (rarely) or expounding about fashion, she reads, eats, travels, and works out to let off steam.

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Haseena Abdul Malik is an impoverished English Lit final year undergraduate at NTU, a part time piercer, a sometimes drummer and Chief Editor of Godspeed Magazine: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=58484376954&ref=ts

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Jillian Ng Nyin Nyin hails from the valley of Klang, Selangor. She is currently pursuing double degree majoring in economics and communications at Monash University Sunway Campus, having just completed her year 3 semester 1. Her pre-U study was at Sunway University College where I did my Cambridge A-level Science. Some random facts about Jilian: her favourite food right now is thosai! She enjoys reading Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert and recently Zunar comic strips. She has basic horse riding skills and plays a little bit of piano.

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Joe Kidd is the grumpy shop assistant & general shitworker at The Ricecooker Shop, KL.

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Joyce Wong is best known as the inimitable blogger Kinky Blue Fairy. She is also former Managing Editor of fashion site Tongue In Chic. She has worked in media for the past five years, contributing to publications such as the Malay Mail, Faces, New Man, KLue and many more.  On the side, she throws a random party night called Cat Got Your Tongue and spins (or rather, selects songs) with Sarah Chan under the pseudo DJ name SalahWrong.

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Jun Kit is a photographer and designer based in Kuala Lumpur.

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Patricia Lajumin was born in Kota Kinabalu and is currently finishing her BA in English and Communication in KL. She can’t wait to return home and hopes to live off her parents next year while taking up scuba-diving, before she leaves home again to pursue her MA. When she’s not busy interning for ARTERI and learning French, she finds comfort in coffee, books and music – all at the same time.

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Pek Thong is a freelance artist, designer, photographer, an ardent painter and occasional traveller. A self-taught artist, he began his humble career as a graphic designer alongside a professional photographer and graphic designer in Petaling Jaya. He left his desk of eight years to pursue freelance design fulltime in 2010. Most people know him by his dark, experimental and surreal photo manipulation. Combining animals, comics and fantasies, he created his own unique style of paintings and designs unconventionally different from the rest.

He enjoys reading, sketching and doodling on walls.

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Latif Kamaluddin is the author of five poetry anthologies. He is currently transmigrating. He teaches political philosophy for a living.

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M.Hanif was born in Kedah. He holds a degree in Applied Sciences (Aquatic Biology), specializing in Hard Coral Taxonomy and a Diploma in Education (Science). He was a science teacher for 3 years before returning to his true passion: costuming. M.Hanif – or Red as he is often known – built his first armored costume out of poster board in 1991. Since then, he had designed and built dozens of other costumes, both for himself and others. His props and costumes have made their way across the globe to the US, Canada and Europe. He is the founder and director of MandoArts Studios, through which his props and costumes are made available to the public. MandoArts Studios also provides costumed character appearances for public and private functions. He is also a founding member and current Clan Leader of the Malaysian Chapter of the Mandalorian Mercs, a Lucasfilm Ltd approved Star Wars costuming club.

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Maung Day is a Burmese poet, writer, artist and translator. He has edited a few literary and art magazines. He now lives in Thailand.

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Manda Misso contributes her writings to Streething and Crank Arm Steady. She also blogs at Are You the Exception or the Rule?

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Nowadays Johnny McGeorge only takes photographs for fun. Business hours are dedicated to creative concepts and identities [In fact, he gave ARTERI its name -SC]. Visit www.jayemmcee.com

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Eva McGovern is an independent curator and writer (or wurator as Sharon says) based in Kuala Lumpur. Eva worked in London for many years in commercial galleries and museums on exhibitions, public programmes and publications. Now back in Malaysia she writes broadly on Southeast Asian contemporary art and is very interested in how gender roles play themselves out in visual practice.

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Bill Nguyen is a fine arts graduate from Nottingham Trent University, England. He has recently returned to Hanoi and writes on contemporary art in Vietnam. He also contributes to Hanoi Grapevine.

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Nirwan Ahmad Arsuka, born in South Sulawesi, writes on subjects spanning science, literature, art, history and philosophy. Most of his writings are published in KOMPAS, Indonesia’s most respected and most widely read newspaper, distributed throughout the archipelago.

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Ooi Kok Chuen is a journalist of 34 years and art writer for more than 27 years. He is awarded Australian Cultural Award in 1991, Goethe-Institut Fellowship in 1989, National Art Gallery Art Writer’s Prize in 2003 and 2008. Ooi has written more than 50 books and catalogues on art, judged several art and photography competitions, and organised art charities. He is also the project coordinator 1st Malaysia Art Tourism Expo in Malacca 2006, and deputy chairman 1st Art Expo Malaysia ‘07.

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Ooi Ying Nee is a coequal partner, together with Johnny McGeorge, of Commas & Industry, a creative collective offering public relations, editorial, advertising and photography solutions for multinational and organic businesses in Asia and the UK. Before succumbing to the life of a start-up entrepreneur, she was a journalist for The Edge.

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A self-taught artist, Rahmat Haron (b. 1977) is also widely known for his writings, poetry performances and commitment to social causes. He blogs at http://sampahseni.blogspot.com/

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Rahmah Ghazali was a journalist who was interested in writing about the current political landscape and success stories of undiscovered talents in Malaysia.

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Randy Gledhill is a performance artist and executive director of LIVE Biennial.

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Sharaad Kuttan co-edited a collection of critical essays on cultural politics in Singapore, “Looking at Culture” (1996). Living in Kuala Lumpur since 1995, he is currently a copy editor with the Malay Mail and teaches part-time at Sedaya University.

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Uthaya Sankar SB adalah Pejuang Bahasa Malaysia serta pengasas dan Presiden Kumpulan Sasterawan Kavyan sejak Ogos 1999. Blognya boleh dibaca di sini manakala akaun Facebook di sini.

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Zedeck Siew is currently a journalist with analytical news website The Nut Graph, where he writes about Issues. He wrote for, and briefly edited, online culture diary Kakiseni, back when it was still running features and criticism. He also engages in fictions.

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Simon Soon is a curator and writer based in Kuala Lumpur. Having returned to the tropics after spending some years in the South of the Planet, he has started researching into contemporary art practices in Southeast Asia. Areas of particular interest are local poetics, relational and socially-engaged practice, Southeast Asian modernity as well as experimental videos.

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Syed Muhd. Hafiz enjoys making exhibitions happen and being the middleman between the artist and his/ her audience. He writes about art to pay for his cigarettes and petrol.

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Tanya Soong has more than a passing interest in contemporary art, film, theatre and politics.

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Tan Zi Hao is currently completing his studies at a local university. Working primarily with the community in Serdang (known presently as Seri Kembangan), he runs a young people’s drama collective Logamaya (http://aoa-logamaya.blogspot.com/) and a children art education project Projek Semai (http://projeksemai.blogspot.com/).

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Norman Teh is a co-founder of Design Circus, a collective of design enthusiasts with a shared passion and curiosity concerning design, which has also organized a series of workshops, small talks and design trips in South East Asia for students, researchers, educators and practitioners. Not interested in making a corporate career in agencies, he currently works as an Art Director for Bright Lights At Midnight (BLAM). Within the last couple of years he has worked with a variety of clients from Amir Muhammad, Nike, 8TV, Digi, Annexe Gallery, Five Arts Centre and many more.

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Tintin Wulia works with media-, mural- and object-based installation in space; her works often includes performative elements. Her artistic research inspires from the geopolitical boundary and effects of its renegotiations in the global and local, political and personal context.

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Tunyaporn Hongtong writes for Art4D, a bilingual art and design magazine based in Bangkok

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Suraya Warden is an International Art Consultant with Honours in Art History & Curatorship. For work, she enjoys helping people build art collections and writes freelance on fashion and art.

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Wong Hoy Cheong is a visual artist who occasionally writes and curates. He believes in the multiplicity of the arts, with a partisan interest in aesthetic and sociocultural contestations.

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June Yap is an independent curator and writer based in Singapore. She studied Art History a while back, then got caught up with organising exhibitions, here, there and elsewhere, and has been trying to get back to research ever since. Fairly recent exhibitions MATAHATI For Your Pleasure (Galeri Petronas, Malaysia), Bound for Glory: Wong Hoy Cheong (NUS Museum, Singapore), Paradies ist Anderswo (ifa Galleries, Germany).

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Yee I-Lann (born 1971, Sabah, Malaysia) received her BA in Visual Arts from the University of South Australia, Adelaide and studied painting at Central St. Martins School of Arts in London. In 2003, she exhibited Horizon, a series of digitally manipulated photographs developed during a residency sponsored by the Australian High Commission Kuala Lumpur at Gunnery studios, Sydney. I-Lann’s visual vocabulary is extensive—drawn from popular culture, urban landscapes and everyday objects. She handles this vocabulary with a deft virtuosity, skipping across traditional and invented media to create work that is at once poignant, poetic, nostalgic, humorous and engaged. In 1999, I-Lann was selected for the 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, Australia.

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Yin Shao Loong writes on culture and politics with a particular interest in colonialism, empire and the politics of prejudice. He is an environmental policy advisor, human rights activist, and seriously means to finish his Ph.D. in Political Science sometime soon. He holds a masters in cultural studies from Goldsmiths College.

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Alex Yong does not have potatoes for breakfast, lunch and dinner; contrary to popular belief. This journalist and traveller prefers to have home-cooked meals.

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Beverly Yong is a Director of RogueArt, a regional art consultancy based in Kuala Lumpur.

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Yusuf Martin – As seen on NTV7 Malaysian national television and heard on BFM Radio; Philosophy graduate. Post Grad in Art History & Theory. Post Grad in Gallery Studies. English man living in Malaysia. Writer. Blogs at http://correspondences-martin.blogspot.com/

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