Introduction

Dr. Ksenya Gurshtein is the curator of modern and contemporary art at the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. She holds a PhD in the history of art, and her academic research focuses on postwar conceptual, experimental, and neo-avant-garde art in Eastern Europe. Her scholarship and criticism have appeared in scholarly journals, popular magazines, exhibition catalogs, and online.

Dr. Sonja Simonyi is an independent scholar working on the visual cultures of socialist Eastern Europe. She completed her dissertation in 2015 at New York University on the Western genre in socialist Eastern European cinema. Her work on both popular and experimental cinema has appeared in a number of edited volumes as well as the journals Film History and Third Text.