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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.

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Geoff Cox

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.

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Michael Bowdidge

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.

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Angela Bartram

Angela Bartram, PhD, is an artist and artistic researcher working with objects, sound, video, drawing, print, collaboration, performance events, curating, and published text.

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Sarah Bennett

Sarah Bennett is an artist and academic based in the UK. She’s been advising on practice-based doctorates in fine art since 2010, the year she completed her own PhD. Through her artistic research she reveals sites of containment and control - whether a former asylum or the space inside a pocket.

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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.

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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.

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Elena Marchevska

Elena Marchevska is a practitioner-researcher and Professor of Artistic Research at London South Bank University, where she is co-Director of Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI). Her research and artistic practice are interconnected and explore the intersection of gender, digital technology and the environmental humanities.

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Susanne Martin

Susanne Martin (PhD) is a Berlin based artist, researcher, and teacher rooted in contemporary dance and performance. She works internationally as soloist and in collaborative settings. Her artistic practice and research focus on improvisation, practices and narrations of the aging body, humor and irony in dance, artistic research methods, improvisation-based and art-based approaches to learning, knowledge production and knowledge dissemination

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Jo Scott

Dr Jo Scott is an artist-researcher using sound arts to explore our felt relationships with ecologies, landscapes and other-than-human nature. Jo’s latest research is using sited sound to explore precarious and changing landscapes, in an era of climate crisis, habitat and biodiversity loss.

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Anthi Kosma

Anthi Kosma is an architect (2005) researching drawing’s performativity as sentimental and speculative writing. She earned her PhD from the School of Architecture of Madrid (2014, Sobresaliente Cum Laude, Special Mention). Since 2019, she has taught at the University of Thessaly’s Department of Architecture, developing creative, experimental spatial pedagogies.

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Zoran Poposki

Dr Zoran Poposki, FRSA is a multi-award-winning transdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and curator based in Hong Kong. Poposki explores cultural translation, liminality, identity, and public space through digital art (including AI and NFT art) combined with painting, drawing, photography, (post-digital) printmaking, performance art, video, film, curating, art education, and publishing.

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Susie Quillinan

Susie Quillinan is a curatorial researcher based in Lima, Peru. She develops publications, residencies, encuentros, exhibitions and study programming interdependently with artists, curators, researchers, collectives, places, institutions and other learners. Her current research focuses on practices of collective reading and study, weaving as methodology and a curatorial ethics of accompaniment.

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Carolina Rito

Carolina Rito, PhD, is a curator and researcher working on creative and critical methods in artistic research, curating as knowledge production, decolonial practices and new institutionalism. She understands practice as plural ways of investigating and intervening in the world. She supervises doctorates to completion and examines internationally.

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