Michael Beman of the University of California Merced, Nicole Goebel of University of California Santa Cruz, Andrew Lucas, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Tracy Villareal of the University of Texas and oceanographer Elise Ralph of the Boston software company Wise Eddy.
Most Chinese institutions lack that software and there is a memory gap of 20 years between 1980 and 2000, when no Chinese institution collected Chinese contemporary art.