Annette Weintraub explores the architectural environment. Recent work includes: Life Support (2003), a web based project exploring hospital architecture and the subjective experience of space through a hybrid of 2D and 3D representation;The Mirror That Changes (2001), a web-based sound and moving image piece exploring issues of water sustainability, commissioned by The Ruschlikon Centre for Global Dialogue; and Mirage (2001), a narrative work exploring the intersection of photography and tourism, commissioned by CEPA for the exhibition Paradise in Search of A Future.
Caroline Wilkinson has a background in art and science and her research and creative work sits at the forefront of art-science fusion and includes subjects as diverse as forensic art, human anatomy, medical art, face recognition, forensic science, anthropology, 3D visualisation, digital art and craniofacial identification. Caroline Wilkinson is Director of the Face Lab, a LJMU research group based in Liverpool Science Park. The Face Lab carries out forensic/archaeological research and consultancy work and this includes craniofacial analysis, facial depiction and forensic art. Craniofacial analysis involves the depiction and identification of unknown bodies for forensic investigation or historical figures for archaeological interpretation. Face Lab research relates to facial identification, craniofacial reconstruction, preserved bodies and facial animation. Caroline is accredited as a forensic anthropologist Level I (craniofacial specialism) by the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) and is an experienced forensic practitioner.
Bedwyr Williams is a Welsh artist. His work combines installation and stand-up comedy and often draws upon the quirky banalities of his own autobiographic existence to develop his sculptures and performances. His work merges art and life with a comedic twist that is instantaneously sympathetic and relational.
Lauren Wilson is an actor, director, playwright, and teacher. After running away to join the circus in her twenties, she has been lucky enough to cobble together a life and a living from these occupations, and to become part of an extended international family of students, teachers, clowns, poets, activists and theatre makers. She is currently a faculty member at the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre, where she served for the past five years as School Director.
Holly Rhame is an artist based in Hudson, New York. The driving engine behind her practice is the process of recuperation or the inclusion of all that is abjected from consciousness. This process of death and rebirth generates a unique symbolic order that she uses along with the process of image making as a map for the building of her life as well as for my continued investment in the process of individuation.
Dr Lee Wright is a specialist in Design History and Theory and currently teaches the history and theory of fashion design & fashion communication, including fashion photography. Her field of expertise spans material and visual culture, in particular popular culture studies. She has supervised PhD students jointly with History, American Studies and Art & Design. Her publications focus on a range of subjects from snapshot photography in the inter war period to gender and clothing.
Mark Wright holds a joint appointment between FACT (The Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) one of Europe's leading centres for new media, where he is Director of FACTLab and the Liverpool School of Art and Design at Liverpool John Moore's University, where he is co-director of the Contemporary Art Lab.
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.
Frank Andrew Scott’s childhood was spent mostly outdoors, as he was born on the plains of Oklahoma, and raised in the mountains of Colorado. When the cameras transitioned from film to digital, he transitioned from painting to photography. He is now combining his lifelong love of being outdoors in the landscape and his extensive experience of working for the camera by photographing the dystopian environment of the Los Angeles River.
Brady Smith is a visual artist, working and living in his hometown of Arvada, Colorado. He holds a BFA in 2-D Studies with an emphasis in etching from Brigham Young University - Idaho and a Master’s in Contemporary Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art - London.
Dawn Schultz is a movement artist and educator currently creating works out of Monmouth County, New Jersey (USA). In 2018 she founded the Movement Exploration Laboratory, to promote choreographic perspective in young artists and is the co-director of the Dance Department for the Visual and Performing Arts Program in Ocean Township Schools.
Through performance-based film, Ayoung Yu explores Korean folk traditions and spiritual practices. Passed on generationally, they connect her to her family and to a land whose absence she feels palpably. However, she is not faithful to the historical canon. Her work aims to transgress older traditions, regenerating them within queer, diasporic contexts.
ShereenShalhoub has been working in the arts since 2006. She began with a gallery and painting, then shifted to sculpture and finally ceramics, where she has developed an interest in installation art and has had the opportunity to showcase three installations in Dubai. She has been working with ceramics since 2017 and continues to research the world of ceramics and all the possibilities it holds.
Architect and Teacher, Marwan Zouein comes from a multicultural background from which he received an international and open minded education. He holds a DPLG from the school of Paris Belleville and a DEA in Architecture from the ETSAM (UPM, Madrid). As founding partner of the award winning spanish architecture office [casaleganitos], he has 15 years of experience in a wide range of projects either with [casaleganitos] or as a consultant for other firms and institutions in Europe and in the Middle East.
Tobias Tovera is an American visual artist whose work explores the intersection of nature, art and consciousness. Using materials subject to metamorphism, Tovera seeks to discover what he calls “transmuted spaces,“ places where energy can shift, change, or renew itself, by experimenting with alchemical processes.
Jake Tkaczyk’s formal arts education to date has focused on live theatre performance, with a diploma in Theatre Performance and Creation from Red Deer College and a BFA in Acting from University of Alberta. He has performed with various theatre companies in Edmonton and toured throughout the province of Alberta.
Spencer Tracy is an interdisciplinary artist working in the Southern United States. Tracy earned his MFA at Sierra Nevada University in 2019 and serves as Director for The Oklahoma Museum of Modern Art, Curator for Redlands Gallery, and teaches Studio Drawing and Art History at various colleges and universities in Central Oklahoma.
Tara Turnbull is an Actress. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre & Philosophy from Bard College At Simon’s Rock, advised by Karen Beaumont and Dr. Brian Conolly, her Master of Fine Arts at University Of California Los Angeles’ School of Theatre, Film and Television, and her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing & Poetics from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School Of Disembodied Poetics, advised by Dr. Mairead Case.]
Miki Wolf is a Southern Tutchone, Tlingit, and Cree multi-disciplinary performer and facilitator, proudly from the Champagne and Aishihik Nation in the Yukon. Miki is actively pursuing research in new studio praxis methodologies for Indigenous performers (theatre and dance) that exist within and through colonial modalities of teaching.
Ali Williams is a writer, educator, and creative practitioner from California, a landscape with a deep influence on her transdisciplinary work investigating the human relationship with land, more-than-humans, and each other. Her current research-based practice centers on materiality, embodiment and place, particularly in the consideration of grief as a response to environmental, collective, and personal loss.
