Online presentation of the Russian edition of the book Time for Cultural Mediation

Carmen Mörsch is Professor for Art Education at the Mainz Academy of Arts, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany. From 2008 to 2018, she was head of the Research Institute for Art Education at Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland. Since 2011, she has led the PhD program Art Education at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. She is a visiting fellow and lecturer at many universities internationally. Together with Nora Landkammer, she forms e-a-r (education and arts research in the arts) collective. She is a member of the network Another Roadmap for Arts Education, which unites colleagues who seek to analyze and develop art education collaboratively with an emancipatory and decolonizing perspective.

Alina Belishkina is an educator, artist, and curator. She studied on the Curating and Mediating MA program at Aalto University, Helsinki and at Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at St. Petersburg State University. Since 2011, she has taught contemporary art theory and practice at various institutions in Petersburg and Moscow. Alina curated and participated in a number of international and local projects, including Research Pavilion of the 57th Venice Biennale, BBX crit sessions as part of the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, documenta studies, etc. She was a guest lecturer at the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, ZIL Cultural Center, Rodchenko Art School, etc.

Daria Malikova is a psychologist, art critic, and specialist in museum education. She works at the department of special projects of the Ural branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, curates the mediation program of the Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, and is the head of its School of Mediation (artmediation-school.ru). She was a member of the research group and co-author of the monograph Something New and Unexpected: Research of the Audience of Contemporary Art in Large Russian Cities and a member of the project group of the Laboratory of Industriality.

Marina Romanova is a Public Programs Manager in the Education Department of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. She has a master's degree from the Department of Museology of the Faculty of Art History at Russian State University for the Humanities, where she majored in sociocultural projects. She has a bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Communications, Media, and Design at Moscow's National Research University – Higher School of Economics, with a major in political journalism. She is the author of sociocultural projects in the field of art mediation and podcasts in the museum.