Marc Mayer has been director of the National Gallery of Canada since 2008. Prior to this appointment, he served as director of the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal (2004-08) and the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto (1998-2001), as well as deputy director at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City (2001-2004) and curator of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo (1994-98). In Paris he was Head of Visual Arts with the Cultural Services of the Canadian Embassy and was a correspondent for the New York periodical The Journal of Art (1990 to 1993) published by Rizzoli. Tan Lin is an American poet, author, filmmaker, and professor. Born in Seattle, Washington, he is most notably recognised for his work in "ambient" literature, a style that draws on and samples source material from popular culture. Roxy Paine was born in 1966 in New York. Since 1989, his work has been exhibited internationally and is included in major public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Francisco MoMA; and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, among many others. He was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He has permanently sited works at the Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, among other international sites.