Dr T J Bacon (she/they) is a trans-femme pansexual person with hidden disabilities. Her practice as an artist-philosopher foregrounds transgender studies, queer theory, crip theory and queer phenomenology to consider visual art, performance art, activism and curation. She has exhibited internationally for over 20 years and is also the founder and artistic director of Tempting Failure.
Read MoreMaggie Buxton, MSc, PhD, is a transdisciplinary practitioner, creative entrepreneur and social innovator fascinated with portals and alternative realities. With thirty years of experience, she curates everything from international events to creative innovation labs and augmented reality installations.
Read MoreAngela Bartram, PhD, is an artist and artistic researcher working with objects, sound, video, drawing, print, performance events, curating, and published text. The subject concerns thresholds of the human body, gallery or museum, definitions of the human and animal as companion species and appropriate strategies for documenting the ephemeral.
Read MoreDaniel Arnaldo-Roman, a Puerto Rico-based media artist, works in code technology and experimental media and also designs responsive web environments and social print based projects.
Read MoreEric Abaka, also known by his stage name Martin Peeves, is an artist & educator of Ghanaian heritage who lives and works between Accra, Ghana and Philadelphia, U.S.A. Eric has a BA in Arts Management and an MFA in Studio Arts ,respectively from Luther College and the University of the Arts.
Read MoreCarlos Llerena Aguirre represented Peru and USA with his woodcuts in the Norsk Internasjonal Grafikk Biennale, Norway. The Jubilam X Internationale Grafik Triennale, Norway and The Xylon Graphische International Triennale, Switzerland. The South Pacific Printmking Biennalel Hulu, Hawai. 5th Biennal of Printmaking, ICPNA. Lima, Peru and the International Bienal of Douro, Portugal. Biennal Arequipa, Peru, Boston Printmaking Biennal. USA
Read MoreKaren Ami is a visual artist, curator, and educator from Chicago. She is a graduate of The Boston Museum School, Tufts University (BFA) and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA) majoring in ceramics and sculpture. She is the Founder of The Chicago Mosaic School, the first and only center for academically oriented Mosaic Arts Education outside of Europe.
Read MoreLaurence Arcadias' PhD research centers on enhancing astronomy outreach through animation. They investigate how animation can bring a different point of view to scientific problems and engage underrepresented Baltimore teenagers, broadening their access to astrophysics.
Read MoreSarah Ayers was born in Dowagiac, Michigan. After attending Andrews University, she moved to New York City. In New York City she worked as a Curatorial Fellow at Bard Graduate Center and Gallery Director at Zabriskie Gallery.
Read MoreLynne Margaret Brown is a visual artist, academic, editor and community program manager currently working and living between New York City and Berlin.
Read MoreSandra Becker: Visual artist from Berlin, grown up in Ankara, Lima, New York and Bonn. Studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art London (BA) and at the University of Art Berlin (MA and postgraduation to Meisterschülerin).
Read MoreMichael Bowdidge
Co-PhD Programme Leader
Admissions Leader and PGR Doctoral Training
Michael Bowdidge, PhD, is an artist who works with found objects, images and sound. He received his undergraduate degree in Fine Art from Middlesex Polytechnic in 1989, and completed his doctoral research at the University of Edinburgh in 2012. Michael works in a variety of educational contexts, which include academic and community settings. All of these activities enrich his teaching practice, and by extension, his creative output – as, for him, these two areas of endeavour are fundamentally intertwined.
Read MoreRen Loren Britton
Accessibility Friend and Trans*Feminist Technical Support
Ren Loren Britton is a white trans* interdisciplinary artist and researcher tuning with practices of critical pedagogy, trans*feministtechnoscience and disability justice. Playing with the queer potential of undoing norms they practice joyful accountability to matters of collaboration, accessibility, Black feminisms, instability and trans*(positioning + gendering)politics. They love slugs, slowness, reading, repetition, non-linearity and experimenting.
Liz Baxmeyer is an interdisciplinary sound designer, writer, and composer. She holds an MFA in Writing and Contemporary Media from Antioch University, Santa Barbara, CA, and an MA in Music, concentrating in electroacoustic composition, and music for media and the arts, from Bangor University, Wales, UK.
Read MoreZeerak Ahmed / SLOWSPIN is a US-based Pakistani artist. She produces voice-based sculptures, meditative installations and uniquely fragile sound collages that explore notions of identity, memory and longing. Slowspin has a distinct sound practice grounded in Hindustaani classical vocal traditions, dream-folk, ambient and experimental electronic music. Poetry and melodies in her mother tongue(s)—Urdu, Farsi, Purbi and English—build new textural soundscapes.
Read MoreIole Alessandrini is an artist who was born and raised in Italy, and has been living in Seattle since 1994. She received her diploma in Fine Arts from the First State School of Fine Arts in Rome and earned two master’s degrees in Architecture: one from the University of La Sapienza in Rome and the other from the University of Washington in Seattle. It is the intersection between these two creative expressions – art and architecture – through which her work moves.
Read MoreDr Sabina Andron is a London-based architectural historian and urban scholar specializing in urban public cultures in the neoliberal city, and methods based on visual, semiotic and legal analyses.
Read MoreGilles Aubry is active at the intersection between sound and visual arts, experimental music and academic research. As an artist, he creates installations, films, performances and radio pieces exploring sonic materiality and listening processes in relation to affect, coloniality and power. His works have been presented at numerous international art exhibitions, film festivals, music venues, and radio shows, earning him two Swiss Art Awards (2012 and 2015) and a European Sound Art Prize in 2016.
Read MoreAngeliki Avgitidou studied Architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts (MA, PhD). She has exhibited internationally at venues that include the ICA (London) and the French Museum of Photography.Her research interests include the everyday, autobiographical practices, body and space, gender and identity, performance and politics/activism, performance documentation and the archive.
Read MoreSonia Elizabeth Barrett, of German Jamaican Parentage, was brought up in England, China and Cyprus, and thus has an international range of cultural influences. A graduate of St Andrews University where she studied Philosophy, Literature and International Relations and the Transart Institute (MFA) Sonia has shown her work at the NGBK Berlin, the OCCA California, the Format Follow Contemporary in Milan, The Museum of the Sea in Italy and the National Gallery in Jamaica.
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