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Gilles Aubry

Gilles 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.

Sarah Bennett

Sarah Bennett is a practicing artist and academic. She has exhibited regularly in the UK and Europe. Bennett has 35 years experience in Higher Arts Education – previous posts include Head of Fine Art, and Head of the School of Art and Media at Plymouth University.

Tracey Benson

Dr Tracey M Benson is an Australian based artist, academic and researcher. Her work focuses on issues related to belonging, place, wellbeing and pro environmental behaviour change. Specialising in online and screen based art, user experience design, locative media and site specific installation, her work has been extensively presented internationally in media arts festivals and exhibitions.

Jean Marie Casbarian

Jean Marie Casbarian (b. Aberdeen, MD) is an interdisciplinary artist who works across photography, video, sound, writing and performance. She holds an MFA from Milton Avery School of Art at Bard College, New York (2000) and a BFA from the University of Colorado at Denver (1987). Her artistic practice lies in her interests around the reinterpretation of memory, personal fictions, migratory space and the essence of time. Along with exhibiting her works throughout the United States, Europe, Central America and Asia, Casbarian has received a number of awards and artist residencies including the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation nomination, The LaNapoule Foundation Grant in LaNapoule, France, the Chicago Artist's Assistance Project Grant, an Associateship with The Rocky Mountain Women's Institute and has been a Research Associate with Five Colleges, Inc (Amherst, MA).

Ana Sánchez-Colberg

Ana Sánchez-Colberg is a Puerto Rican multidisciplinary artist based in Europe. She has been awarded Fellowships by the Swedish Research Council, Arts Council of England, British Council amongst others. She has also been a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Award in 2016 and the recipient of the highly coveted MAP Funding (USA) award in 2019, and multiple other awards and recognitions. She holds an MFA in Choreography from Temple University (Philadelphia, USA) and a PhD from Laban Centre London (CNAA validated).

Sophia Wright Emigh

Sophia Wright Emigh (she/they) is an interdisciplinary, queer mother artist and movement filmmaker working in the emerging field of somatic ecology via performance, installation, film, photography, mark-making, social practice, writing, and action. Through camera, body, sound, and embodied ritual, she traverses and transmits the dance of life around the ineffable.

Shelley Etkin

Shelley Etkin is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, and gardener based in Berlin, Germany with roots in the US/Turtle Island and Israel/Palestine. She works at the intersections of art and ecology, engaging with relations between bodies and lands through place-based knowledges. Her work integrates practices from dance/somatics, herbal medicines, pedagogy, and intersectional queer feminist community organising. Shelley’s bodywork and earth-care practices are dedicated to expanding perception, communication, and connectivity particularly with the plant world. ‘Landing‘ as a process and movement forms the grounds for her methodology.

Anna Gibbs

Professor Anna Gibbs teaches in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. A member of the Writing and Society Research Centre and the Digital Humanities Research Group, she writes across the fields of textual, media and cultural studies focussing on feminism, fictocriticism and affect theory.

Laura Gonzalez

Laura González is an artist, writer, yoga teacher and an Athenaeum Research Fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is also faculty at Transart Institute. When she is not following Freud, Lacan and Marx’s footsteps with her camera, she teaches art and psychoanalysis at various institutions in Europe and the US. She creates intimate durational performances for galleries and festivals, including Unfix, Buzzcut, Glasgow Open House and Market Gallery, and, in 2019, her work was shortlisted for the Adrian Howells Award for Intimate Performance.

Carl Haase

Carl Haase received a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the Maine College of Art, Maine, US in 2001. In 2005 he completed a four-year apprenticeship in a letterpress studio in the Maine, US. Shortly thereafter, he founded and operated a silkscreen studio which specialised in fine art printing in conjunction with freelance design projects. Currently he is continuing this body of research as a PhD candidate at the University of Antwerpen’s ARIA (BE) program.

Michael Hirschbichler

Michael Hirschbichler studied architecture at ETH Zurich and philosophy at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and completed his doctoral dissertation on “Mythical Constructions” at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). He lived and worked in various countries, such as the United States, Switzerland, Papua New Guinea, Italy, Azerbaijan and France and is currently based in Zurich and Munich.

Freek Lomme

Freek Lomme works as professional curator and editor in the field of art, design and social practice since 2003. He is founding director of public gallery and publisher Onomatopee as well as a freelance curator, lecturer, moderator and writer.

Andrew McNiven

Andrew McNiven was born in Edinburgh in 1963 and studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths' College, graduating in 1987, a contemporary of many of the artists who rose to international prominence during the 1990s. He received his MA from Goldsmiths' in 1995. Since 1990 his work has been shown nationally and internationally by, amongst others: the Lisson Gallery, the Whitechapel Gallery, the Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, and the Neue Galerie, Dachau. Recent projects include ‘The First Night of Experimental Boredom’ at 222Lodge, Dordrecht (NL), ‘Visual Art by Verbal Means’ at Kunstal Rotterdam (NL); 'The Understanding Gaze': Perre Bourdieu/Andrew McNiven, White Box, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, (DE). He completed an AHRC-funded, practce-led PhD at Northumbria University in 2011. Previously a lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art, he is currently Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at Zeppelin Universität in Friedrichshafen, Germany.

Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio

Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio is a researcher, writer, editor and curator, working across different disciplines, territories and cultures. He holds an international PhD in “Art History, Theory and Criticism” from the University of Barcelona and he is currently teaching in different Universities. Herman combines academic research, cultural management, curatorial practices and artistic methodologies, collaborating with a wide range of projects and organizations internationally.

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh (Ph.D. Columbia University) is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Babson College teaching courses in world literature, philosophy, cultural studies, and visual art. He also holds a faculty position at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA) and is Director of the Transdisciplinary Studies Program for the New Centre for Research & Practice.

Tom Overton

Tom Overton is a writer and and Archive Curator/Postdoctoral Fellow at the Barbican Centre, London. As part of an AHRC-Funded PhD between the British Library and the Centre for Life-writing Research, King's College London, he catalogued the archive of the writer and artist John Berger (1926-2017), and curated a conference, free school and exhibition at Somerset House, London, to mark the 40th Anniversary of Berger's collaborative TV series and book Ways of Seeing (1972) and Booker-winning novel G.

Mark Roth

New York painter Mark Roth’s work is focused on issues of extinction, rewilding, eco-grief, ethology and painting’s capacity as a tool for inquiry and solace.

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Steven Rowell

Steve Rowell is an artist who works with photography, moving image, sound, installation, maps, and spatial concepts to produce complex multicomponent projects. His practice investigates terrains of perception, nonhuman intelligence, ecologies, and technology, exploring the landscape as a site of political imagination. Steve contextualizes the morphology of the built environment with the surrounding medium of Nature, appropriating the methods and tools of the geographer and archaeologist.

Valerie Walkerdine

Valerie Walkerdine (PhD) is an artist and academic. As an academic she has taught, written and researched in the fields of critical psychology, affect studies, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, artistic practice and theory, social theory, class, gender and feminism, community and de-industruialisation and neoliberalism.

Beth Weinstein

Beth M. Weinstein (BFA Syracuse, MArch Columbia GSAPP, PhD UTasmania) is an architect, artist, educator and researcher. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions of her work include Performing Spatial Labour (2019, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart), Palimpsest (2019, Un Lieu pour Réspirer, Les Lilas-Paris), States of Exception (2018, Cité Internationale des Arts/Jeu de Paume, 2018) and the 2015 and 2018 Arizona Biennials. She received the NY Architectural League’s Young Architect’s Award and has been awarded artist residencies through the Académie d'Architecture, the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), Bundanon Trust (New South Wales), and the Casa de Velazquez (Madrid).

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