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Natalie De Vito, Deputy Commissioner for the Canada Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, is the Artistic Producer of Mammalian Diving Reflex, an award-winning, interdisciplinary art company. She has produced and curated exhibitions and large-scale performances in Toronto, and Australia, China, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Norway, and Pakistan. Her past experience includes Artistic Producer, spotlight festival 2008, and Acting Media and Visual Arts Officer at the Ontario Arts Council, Head of Development and Marketing at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, and Co-Director of Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art. Her writing on contemporary art has appeared in Coach House Books uTOpia, C Magazine, Parachute, Prefix Photo, VISION Magazine Shanghai, and exhibition brochures and catalogues.

Wasiuta/Leung Architects

Mark Wasiuta is an architect and theorist teaching at Columbia University, Graduate School of
Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where he is also Director of Exhibitions. His current research
focuses on the architectural turn to “environment” in the post war, from the discourse on environmental
design, to social theories of environment and behavior, and to “environmental” experiments with
electronics and computation. A related series of projects through the design office IHA pursue themes
around Los Angeles atmosphere. The Graham Foundation recently awarded IHA a research grant for
House Arrest a project that researches the culture, architecture and technologies that have emerged
around marijuana grow house operations in the San Fernando Valley and the Inland Empire. Mark was
educated at the University of British Columbia, Princeton University, and Harvard University. Mark
Wasiuta is also partner in Wasiuta Leung Design.

Jennifer W. Leung is an architect and critic based in Brooklyn, NY. She currently teaches at the School of
Architecture at Yale University, and has previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania. She was a
2006-2007 Architecture and Urban Studies Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and has
received support for independent research projects from the Institute for Urban Research at the
University of Pennsylvania and the Graham Foundation. She received her Master’s Degree from
Princeton University and has worked professionally for Stan Allen Architect, OMA, and Diller Scofidio +
Renfro. She was a research assistant for Domesticity at War by Beatriz Colomina and a contributor to
Modern Painters. Jennifer W. Leung is a partner in Wasiuta Leung Design.

Design/Typography

Martha Stutteregger graduated from the University of Applied Arts in 1996. One year later she established her own practice specializing in graphic design for cultural productions and institutions. She has since then designed publications for Austrian institutions including the Sucession, the Architecture Center, Kunstradio, as well as international houses such as the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid, K21 Düsseldorf, Migros Museum Zurich, MAMBo Bologna, and various publishers. Visual identities were developed for the Museum of Modern Art, Vienna (Mumok), the Institute of Visual Culture Cambridge, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Kiesler Foundation Vienna, and the documenta 12. She designed a number of monographs, artists books, and editions, collaborating closely with artists such as Cerith Wyn Evans, Martin Beck / Julie Ault, Renée Green, and de Rijke / de Rooij.
From 2006 to 2008 she was lecturing at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna on “History of Typography in the 20th Century”. Martha Stutteregger’s office is based in Vienna.