John 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).
Jenny Hawkinson is a social practice artist interested in the intersection of conflict engagement and contemporary art. In her practice, ‘artist’ and ‘advocate’ hold equal weight. After receiving a BA in Visual Art in 2010, she moved to Vancouver, BC to establish roots in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.
Gyungju Chyon’s work focuses on relationships between designed things and environments through engaging natural phenomena and exploring materialities. She is interested in delving beyond technological performance, seeking deeper and meaningful connections between things, environment and people for our health, well-being, and ecological living.
Sean Clute is an interdisciplinary artist, composer and performer. Clute’s creations embrace hybridization of media and interactivity to explore forms of interdisciplinary expression. By developing custom software and hardware, Clute experiments with technologies and methodologies to construct audiovisual instruments, sensor-based interfaces and computer generative processes. Collaboration, a key element in his work, is employed through partnerships with choreographers, musicians, scientists, writers and artists.
Geoff Cox is an occasional artist and Professor of Art and Computational Culture at London South Bank University (UK), where he is co-Director of Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI), also Adjunct at Aarhus University (DK). These roles are undertaken with an artistic sensibility.
David Antonio Cruz is a multidisciplinary artist and a Professor of the Practice in Painting and Drawing at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Cruz fuses painting and performance to explore the visibility and intersectionality of brown, black, and queer bodies. Cruz received a BFA in painting from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Yale University. He attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and completed the AIM Program at the Bronx Museum.
Christopher Danowski (PhD) is a theatre and performance artist. He has written over fifty plays, directed, and performed in living rooms, galleries, and unusual spaces (sometimes in theaters). He was artistic director of Theater in My Basement from 1999-2013, and now serves as a founding member of Howl Theatre Project. He is based in Phoenix and his work has been shown locally, in New York, Minneapolis, Seattle, Yucatán, Mexico City, Dublin, Laval, Vienna, Berlin, and Kraków.
Leah Decter is an inter-media artist and scholar based in Winnipeg; Treaty 1 territory. Her artwork, research and writing focus on contested spaces, largely contending with histories and contemporary conditions of settler colonialism and systems of white dominance from a critical white-settler perspective. Her current artistic/research-creation projects address social-spatial dynamics of settler colonial contexts and consider the ethics of being-in-relation in spaces of Indigenous sovereignty. Her current research and writing focus on arts-based critical white settler methodologies that aim to contribute to the goals of decolonial, non-colonial and anti-racist movements.
Bert de Muynck [Belgium, 1977] is an architect, writer, lecturer and co-director of MovingCities. He holds a MA Architectural Engineering [Catholic University Leuven, BE] and a GAS Cultural Sciences [Free University Brussels, BE]. He is a prolific public speaker, writer and has lived and worked in Amsterdam [NL, 2001-06], Beijing [2006- 09], Shanghai [2009-2018] and is now based in Lisbon.
Jean-Ulrick Désert is a conceptual and visual-artist. He received his degrees at Cooper Union and Columbia University (New York) and has lectured or been a critic at Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Humboldt University and l’école supérieur des beaux arts.
Fayen d'Evie is an artist and writer, born in Malaysia, raised in Aotearoa New Zealand, and now living in the bushlands of unceded Djaara country, Australia
Veronica Marina Fazzio Welf is an Artist, Educator, and Learner. From Buenos Aires, she now lives in South Florida, USA. Social Sculpture Practitioner.
Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby use design as a medium to stimulate discussion and debate amongst designers, industry and the public about the social, cultural and ethical implications of existing and emerging technologies.
David Dunn is a composer and artist who primarily engages in site-specific interactions or research-oriented activities. Much of his current work is focused upon the development of listening strategies and technologies for environmental sound monitoring in both aesthetic and scientific contexts. Dunn is internationally known for his articulation of frameworks that combine the arts and sciences towards practical environmental activism and problem solving.
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively or through experiences where the quotidian and art overlap. He has exhibited and performed extensively in the U.S. as well as internationally
Sarah Jane Eaton is an artist who works with portraiture, costuming, collage, and performance. She received her undergraduate degree of Fine Art from Utah State University in 2011 and began her MFA with Transart Institute in 2018. Her artistic practice explores the relationships she finds with her family, her models, the materials and herself. She lives and practices in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Joanna Ebenstein is a Brooklyn-based multi-disciplinary artist, award winning curator, writer, photographer, producer, art director, designer, and public speaker. Her work explores the intersections of art and medicine, death and culture, the objective and subjective, the living and the inanimate.
Chris Evans' work often evolves through conversation with people from diverse walks of life, selected in relation to their public life or symbolic role, for example, the directors of a leading champagne house, a former member of the British Constructivists, the CEO of a Texas pharmaceutical company, a selection of elderly Italian politicians, an anonymous philanthropist etc.
Colin Fallows, Head of Research Degrees, Liverpool School of Art and Design, LJMU. Fallows’ research explores crossovers between sound and the visual arts, frequently investigating the conditions and potentialities of listening. As artist and curator, he has produced soundworks for live ensemble performance, recordings, exhibition, installation, radio and the Internet. His artistic and curatorial projects have featured in numerous international festivals, galleries and museums.
Nola Farman studied sculpture at Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada, completing her MA and PhD at the University of Western Sydney. She is currently writing and producing artworks about the absurdity of contemporary life, using the art world as an exemplar.
