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Dr Noam Elcott is Associate Professor of Art History and聽聽 Archaeology at Columbia University, USA, where he specialises in the history of modern art and media in Europe and North America, with an emphasis on interwar art, photography, and film. Noam is the author of Artificial Darkness: A History of Modern Art and Media (forthcoming from University of Chicago Press). Encompassing diverse figures such as 脡tienne-Jules Marey and Richard Wagner, Georges M茅li猫s and Oskar Schlemmer, Elcott's book is the first to conceive, historicize, and theorize artificial darkness and the art and media that gave it form.

John Bowen is a Professor of 19th century literature at the University of York in the UK. His main research area is 19th-century fiction, in particular the work of Charles Dickens, but he has also written on modern poetry and fiction, as well as essays on literary theory. John discusses Gothic literature and its use of dark and the night to create suspense, horror and terror.

Erlend Loe is a Norwegian novelist and screenwriter.聽 Born in Trondheim, he worked at a psychiatric clinic and was later a freelance journalist for Norwegian newspaper Adresseavisen. Erland now lives and works in Oslo. 聽In 1993 he debuted with the book Tatt av kvinnen (Gone with the Woman), and a year later published a children's book, Fisken (The Fish), about a forklift operator named Kurt. Erland explores his own attitudes to living for many months of the year in a dark environment in Norway.

Dr Ravindra Athale received his B.S. (1972) from the University of Bombay and M.S. (1974) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, both in physics. He received his Ph.D. (1980) in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego.聽聽 He is currently a Program Officer at Office of Naval Research in Arlington USA managing research in imaging sensors, optical computing and nanophotonics and is an expert in night vision technology. Dr. Athale was elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 1989.聽