Kóan Jeff Baysa is a cognitive access curator, physician, designer, writer, critic. As a medical scientist, his interests center around issues of the sensate body and in the ways that the physical self experiences and knows the world through the senses; as a cultural worker, his interests lie in examining the dynamics of subcultures nesting within larger cultures. He is a contributing writer for the online publication ArtSlant, and contributing writer and art editor for the online contemporary culture periodical, aRUde. Baysa has written for Art Asia Pacific, Flavorpill, Ctrl+PJournal of Contemporary Art, the Scent Marketing Institute Newsletter, and is the Pacific editor for d'Art International (Toronto).