Editor in Chief, MAX RYYNÄNEN (PhD, Docent, 1972) is senior lecturer in theory of visual culture at Aalto University's Department of Art and, together with Falk Heinrich and Richard Shusterman, the editor in chief of https://somaesthetics.aau.dk/index.php/JOS. He has lately published e.g. On the Philosophy of Central European Art (Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield) - and edited Art, Excess, and Education (Palgrave, with Kevin Tavin and Mira Kallio-Tavin) and Aesthetic Perspecives on Culture, Politics, and Landscape (Springer, with Elisabetta Di Stefano and Carsten Friberg). More on the webpage http://maxryynanen.net.
Editor in Chief, JOZEF KOVALČIK has been Chief Executive of the newly established Slovak Arts Council since July 2015. He was previously Vice Rector at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, where he also taught theory of art, theory of design and aesthetics. His research has been focused on the relation between high and popular culture and cultural politics. He completed two books on this topic, entitled Aesthetics of Popular Culture, which is co-authored by Max Ryynänen (Slovart, 2014). He was also an active curator of contemporary art and design.
Stefán Snævarr was born Reykjavík, Iceland, 1953. He is professor of philosophy at the Norway Inland University, Lillehammer, where he has been working since 1998. He has been interested in various fields of philosophy, mainly the philosophy of art, including the problem of aesthetic judgement, the aesthetic of popular arts, the philosophy of poetry, the aesthetic aspects of selfhood, metaphors, narratives, and emotions. The three last-named fields of interest are the subject of his book Metaphors, Narratives, Emotions. Their Interplay and Impact. In 2010, he won the first prize in the essay competition of the International Association of Aesthetics, He has published 19 books, including several volumes of poetry and experimental prose.
Zoltán Somhegyi is a Hungarian art historian with a PhD in aesthetics, and is Associate Professor of art history at the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary. As a researcher, he is specialised in eighteenth-nineteenth century art and theory, and besides that his other fields of interest are contemporary fine arts and art criticism. He is the Secretary General and Website Editor of the International Association for Aesthetics, member of the Executive Committee of the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences, Consultant of Art Market Budapest: International Contemporary Art Fair, and Editor-in Chief of HAS – Humanities, Arts & Society Magazine. www.zoltansomhegyi.com
Associate Editor Dr. ADAM ANDRZEJEWSKI is a philosopher and Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw. His research is focused on everyday aesthetics, popular culture, and ontology of art. He has authored several articles devoted to analytic aesthetics and philosophy of art published in e.g. Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetic, Rivista di estetica, Brill Research Perspectives on Art and Law, The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics and The Journal of Somaesthetics. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Evental Aesthetics as well as the Treasurer of the European Society for Aesthetics.
YVONNE FÖRSTER currently teaches Philosophy at Leuphana University Lüneburg and is appointed as foreign expert and research professor at Shanxi University (China). She received her PhD at Friedrich Schiller University Jena with a thesis on experience and ontology of time (Zeiterfahrung und Ontologie, München: Fink 2012). Her research focuses on philosophy of technology, theories of embodiment and aesthetics. Latest projects reflect on aesthetics of technology, its impact on human experience and ethics of technology. Homepage: www.yvonnefoerster.com
Associate Editor Mgr. MICHAELA PAŠTEKOVÀ, PhD (1982) works at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (Slovakia), where she teaches classes on aesthetics, mass culture and theory of photography. In her research, she focuses on the influence of social platforms and new media on visual culture, aesthetics and the evaluation of the photographic image. Her current research focuses on recycling strategies in contemporary photography. She is also an active curator and art critic. Since 2014, she is also the chair of the Slovak Association of Aesthetics.