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 MoreMariana Martínez Balvanera is a spatial and social designer based in Amsterdam and Mexico City, working in the realm of community lead urban and rural placemaking projects within the critical spatial practice approach. Since 2018 Mariana co-founded Cocina Colaboratorio where she leads creative programming in public space aimed at environmental and social sustainability, using food as main common ground.
Nathalie 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 MoreLiz 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 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 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 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 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.
Lynne Margaret Brown is a visual artist, academic, editor and community program manager currently working and living between New York City and Berlin.
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 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).
Read MoreAlexander (Sandy) Carson is a Canadian filmmaker whose work explores the intersections of collective practice and personal storytelling. He is on faculty at Yorkville University's Bachelor of Creative Arts program and has previously taught at Toronto Film School. Carson’s films have screened at events such as the Toronto International Film Festival, the Reykjavik International Film Festival…
Read MoreAlison J Carr is an artist, mentor, and independent scholar. She works visually and creates performances. Alison has shown her work nationally and internationally in USA and Europe. Career highlights include being a Site Gallery Platform / Freelands resident and co-editing Sex on Stage, with Dr Lynn Sally, forthcoming, Bloomsbury.
Read MoreNicoletta Cappello (she/her) (based in Sicily/Madrid/Helsinki) is a performing artist, and Doctoral Researcher in the Doctorate in Arts and Education University of Girona (ES) connected to the Chair of Movement and Languages, in co-tutelle with the Department of Education at University of Catania (IT), currently visiting the Artistic Doctorate in Performing Arts at UniArts Helsinki.
Read MoreJean 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).
Read MoreYvette Chaparro is an artist and teacher, who through experiments on modularity and morphology, trying to understand families of objects, is now exploring new concepts such as typologies, the programme, and growth systems. Her professional practice can be considered an extension of her research, where she has worked on various families of objects
Read MoreJames Charlton is a second-generation New Zealand Post-object Artist whose work includes video, object-based sculpture, stereo-lithography, installation, robotics, interactive screen-based and performance work. He lectures in sculpture, post-material practices and interactive installation, at Auckland University of Technology.
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