Ilya Budraitskis is an artist, theorist, and historian. Born in Moscow, he studied in the History Department at the Russian Academy of Education, and since 2009 he has been a graduate student in the Institute of General History at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 2010, he has been on the editorial board of Moscow Art Magazine. Arseniy Zhilyaev is an artist, curator, and contemporary art theorist. Born in Voronezh, he was educated at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow, and at the Valand School of Fine Arts, Gothenburg, Sweden. He has been on the editorial board of Moscow Art Magazine since 2010, and was awarded the Innovation and Soratnik contemporary art prizes.