Mark Nelson is a partner at McCall Associates, New York, where he designs books for museums, galleries, and artists. His clients include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Over the course of his career, Nelson has worked closely with many leading artists, including Vija Celmins, Jenny Holzer, Sherrie Levine, and Richard Serra. He is the author, with Sarah Hudson Bayliss, of Exquisite Corpse: Surrealism and the Black Dahlia Murder (2006).

William H. Sherman is director of the Warburg Institute and professor of cultural history at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study. Before moving to the Warburg, he served as director of research and collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum and founded the Centre for Renaissance & Early Modern Studies at the University of York. Sherman has published widely on the history of books and readers and the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and his recent work has focused on the relationship between word and image and the history of codes and ciphers.

Ellen Hoobler is the William B. Ziff, Jr., Associate Curator of Art of the Americas at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. A specialist on pre-Columbian art and its historiography, Hoobler most recently was coeditor of Visual Culture in the Ancient Americas: Contemporary Perspectives (2017). She has also published recent articles in the Journal of the Walters Art Museum and the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (CUNY).