Anne-Marie Bartlett is a Lecturer in Graphic Design and Illustration at the Liverpool School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University. Anne-Marie has over 18 years’ experience in the creative industries. Her Graphic Design and Illustration portfolio includes collaborations and works for clients ranging from the National Army Museum, London, to the Arctic Monkeys.
Read MoreJuan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano (Bogotá, 1991) is an artist, writer and educator passionate about the historical, material, and mythological relations between technology and ecology.
Read MoreSarah 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.
Read MoreDr 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.
Isak Berbic (b.1983) is an artist working with photography, moving image and performance. His research deals with social histories, politics, humor, exile, and the limits of representation. His recent artworks investigate the overlaps of documentary and fiction in relation to the visualization of contested politics and contested histories.
Read MoreSandeep Bhagwati is a multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist [Studies: Mozarteum Salzburg, Musikhochschule München and IRCAM Paris]. His compositions and comprovisations (including 6 operas) are regularly performed worldwide.
Read MoreSanford Biggers, an LA native working in NYC, creates artworks that integrate film, video, installation, sculpture, drawing, original music and performance.He intentionally complicates issues such as hip hop, Buddhism, politics, identity and art history in order to offer new perspectives and associations for established symbols. Through a multi-disciplinary formal process and a syncretic creative approach he makes works that are as aesthetically pleasing as they are conceptual.
Read MoreNathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro merges installations, sonic radio, live art performances, film & archives. Her work analyses processes of power & fictions in historical archives critically engaging in migrational struggles. She creates environments for untold narratives of resistance movements by African women and indigenous communities. Sedimented in narratives are testimonies of sonic nature archives, queering ecologies and postcolonial feminist experiences towards new monuments, reacting to the different tones of societies shared between delusions & ritual. She brings new investigations about the architectures of racisms in cities, the archeologies of urban spaces & economies of tradition systems by exposing the limitations of technologies as functional memory records.
Read MoreMichael Birchall holds a collaborative post with Tate Liverpool where he is curator of public practice, and Senior Lecturer in Exhibition Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. Previously he has held curatorial appointments at The Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre (Canada), The Western Front (Canada), and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (Germany).
Read MoreLynn Book creates media-diverse works across a range of cultural sites through research and practice that center on questions and issues of embodiment, otherness, social structures and states of public imagination.
Read MoreRenee Brown is a multidisciplinary artist that is driven by direction given to her in her dream life. Over the last two decades Renee’s art praxis has been informed by her investigation into metaphoric dream analysis methodology. She delves into the metaphoric meaning of dream elements through research meditation and revelation. Currently she responds to her nocturnal life through dream journals, spontaneous drawings, abstract paintings, sculpture and video installation. A commitment to ritual, reception and direction from her personal dreamlife drives her practice.
Read MoreDr. Rachel Epp Buller is a feminist art historian printmaker book artist professor and mother of three. She holds a PhD in art history and an MFA in creative practice. Much of her artistic, written, and curatorial work has addressed the maternal body and feminist care in contemporary art contexts. Her current writing and artistic research explores slow practices, such as walking and stitching, with a particular focus on letter-writing as an act of relational care and a radical intervention into practices of academic scholarship.
Read MoreJohn Byrne is Director of ‘The Uses of Art Lab’ which forms part of Liverpool School of Art and Designs ART LABS Research Centre which will align research developed around the theme of ‘Useful Art’ from LJMU/LSAD alongside Grizedale Arts (Coniston UK), The University of Hildesheim (Hildesheim, Germany), The Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK) and the L’Internationale consortium of Museums and Galleries: Moderna Galerija (MG=MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia); Museo nacional centro de arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS, Madrid, Spain); Museu d’art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA, Barcelona, Spain); Museum van Hedendgaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium); SALT (Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey) and Van Abbermuseum (VAM, Eindhoven, NL); Grizedale Arts (Coniston, UK); University of Hildesheim, (Hildesheim, Germany).
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