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.
Read MoreGeoff 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.
Read MoreSimon Pope is an artist whose work has focused on the internet's social and technical networks, walking with others, collective negotiations of more-than-human social worlds, and the transdisciplinary potentials of art and sports practice. Pope represented Wales at the Venice Biennale of Fine Art (2003) and was a member of award-winning net.art collective I/O/D (1993-2000).
Read MoreBeth Krensky is Area Head and Professor of Art Teaching at the University of Utah. She is an artist working in the border zone between social issues and the sacred who creates objects and performative gestures as a contemplative act.
Read MoreDr T J Bacon (she/they) is a trans-femme pansexual person with hidden disabilities. Her practice as an artist-philosopher foregrounds transgender studies, queer theory, crip theory and queer phenomenology to consider visual art, performance art, activism and curation. She has exhibited internationally for over 20 years and is also the founder and artistic director of Tempting Failure.
Read MoreAngela Bartram, PhD, is an artist and artistic researcher working with objects, sound, video, drawing, print, collaboration, performance events, curating, and published text.
Read MoreRobyn Ferrell is honorary professor of cultural studies at Sydney University, a visiting fellow at the Australian National University and member of the Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide.
Read MoreDanica Maier, an American-born artist and academic based in the UK, has a diverse background in painting, textiles, and drawing.
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.
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 MoreProfessor 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.
Read MoreLaura 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.
Read MoreElena Marchevska is a practitioner, academic and researcher interested in creating work that can help us to think through new historical discontinuities that have emerged in post-capitalist and post-socialist transition. This is ever more relevant at a time when the Eurozone is fragmenting, and right wing populisms are on the rise. In addition, she does research and writes extensively on the issues of belonging, female body and the border and intergenerational trauma.
Read MoreSusanne 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
Read MoreDr 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.
Read MoreAnthi Kosma is an architect researching drawing as performative action and emotional writing. She obtained her PhD from the School of Architecture of Madrid in 2014 with Distinction (Sobresaliente Cum Laude). Since 2019, she has been teaching at the Department of Architecture at the University of Thessaly, Greece.
Read MoreDr 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.
Read MoreSusie 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.
Read MoreDr. Carolina Rito is Professor of Creative Practice Research, at the Research Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities (CAMC), at Coventry University, UK; and leads the centre’s Critical Practices research strand. Carolina Rito is a researcher and curator whose work explores ‘the curatorial’ as an investigative practice, expanding practice-based research in the fields of curating, visual arts, visual cultures and cultural studies. In her work, Rito has been preoccupied with the notions of knowledge production in the field of the curatorial. This has meant that her interest resides on how practices – such as curating – produce new knowledge, or, in other words, produce a particular way of understanding the world.
Read MoreMerete Røstad is a visual artist and curator working with publics, remembrance and archive. Her practice concerns the perception of our everyday exchange and experiences within our surroundings, one aspect of this being how we read the traces left behind.
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