Virginia Ryan is an Australian-born visual artist and writer, and founding member of the Foundation for Contemporary Art–Ghana, registered in 2004. She trained at the National School of the Arts in Canberra, Australia.  Ryan is associate professor at NYU in Ghana and has been active in establishing a library of art books and catalogues for artists and students at the Foundation in Accra. Since 2001 she has lived and worked in Accra, Ghana and Umbria, Italy. She has been a dual-national of Australia and Italy since 1981, exhibits frequently in Africa and Europe, and has recently worked and exhibited with critics such as Achille Bonito Oliva, who also interviewed her  for a monographic television program about her life and work in Africa on Sky Cult in 2006,’Il Giorno della Creazione’.
www.virginiaryan.com        
virginiaryan@fcaghana org

Steven Feld is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Music at the University of New Mexico, His work as a documentary sound artist has been published by Smithsonian Folkways, Rykodisc, Nota, and VoxLox, and has been installed in museums and galleries and aired widely on radio. Among his awards is a MacArthur Prize Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Since the mid-1970s he has studied the sound of the Bosavi rainforest region in Papua New Guinea, Greek Macedonia and Romani ("Gypsy") instrumentalists, the history and culture of bells in France, Finland, Norway, Greece, Italy and Denmark, and music and sound environments of Ghana and Japan. In 2003 he founded VoxLox Documentary Media Arts, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
www.unm.edu/~anthro/faculty/profiles/feld.htm  
feld@unm.edu