Khaled Hafez 

Khaled Hafez is born in Cairo, Egypt in 1963 where he currently lives and works. He studied medicine and followed the evening classes of the Cairo fine arts in the eighties. After attaining a medical degree in 1987 and M.Sc. as a medical specialist in 1992, he gave up medical practices in the early nineties for a career in the arts.

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Alumni--
Tia Halliday

Tia Halliday B.F.A, B.Ed, M.F.A, Ph.D. (Candidate) is an internationally recognized artist, currently residing in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Tia is also a tenured faculty member in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Calgary where she is active in both Graduate and Undergraduate programs.

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Fred Han

Fred Han is currently an Associate Professor at the School of System Design and Intellectual Manufacturing in the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China. Prior to his current position, he served as an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for nine years.

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Marc Herbst

Marc Herbst is an broadly interdisciplinary researcher, artist, editor/publisher and sometimes activist whose core experiences are built upon work on the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest he co-founded in Los Angeles in 2000. The journal describes itself as a 'weirdo archive' and his interests are culturally odd, relational, marginal and interested in the radical.

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Kate Hilliard

Kate Hilliard is an artist, curator and educator. She is the Creative Director at The Orillia Centre for Arts + Culture, fostering programming and residency opportunities for artists across disciplines. Over the years she has cultivated a teaching practice in her own community and in several institutions, including The Stella Adler Studio of Acting in NYC.

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Past (Guest)--
Victoria Hindley

Victoria Hindley practices publishing as artistic practice. She is the Acquisitions Editor for Visual Culture and Design at the MIT Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and London, England). Her art practice includes internationally exhibited and featured artists' books, installations, and collaborative interventions.

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Alumni, Advisors--
Michael Hirschbichler

Michael Hirschbichler studied architecture at ETH Zurich and philosophy at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and completed his doctoral dissertation on “Mythical Constructions” at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). He lived and worked in various countries, such as the United States, Switzerland, Papua New Guinea, Italy, Azerbaijan and France and is currently based in Zurich and Munich.

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Derek Holzer

Derek Holzer (1972) is an American instrument builder and sound artist based in Berlin DE, whose current interests include DIY analog electronics, the relationship between sound + space, media archaeology and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and extreme music. He has created scores of unique and experimental instruments, installations, and performances since 2002, as well as taught sound art workshops, across Europe, North and South America, and New Zealand.

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Past (Guest)--
Estelle Hoy

Estelle Hoy is a writer and academic based in Berlin. She completed her Phd in Contemporary Feminist Experimental Literature (New Narrative). She's lectured at The Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne, Freie Universität Berlin, Goldsmiths, Bard College, Parsons Paris, The New School, Université Paris-Sorbonne and Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) Paris.

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Sara Hudston

Sara Hudston is a writer and editor. Her work focuses on the living world and the spirit of place. She writes non-fiction, fiction, and much in between.

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Advisors--
John Hyatt

Professor John Hyatt is an artist: painter, digital artist, video artist, photographer, designer, musician, printmaker, curator, author and sculptor. Since 2010, Hyatt has exhibited in Australia, Brazil, China, India, Ireland, Portugal, Japan, the UK and the USA. He has a long and varied career and involvement in cultural practices, pedagogy, industry, urban regeneration, and communities.

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LJMU--
Andrew Ibi

A versatile and creative visual designer with a broad range of experiences and skills across the fashion industry. Andrew Ibi has worked professionally in the fields of Menswear Design, Contemporary Retailing & Buying, Costume Design & Styling and Design Consultation. He has spent the last few years working in academia, developing research around social trend and its impact on Deisgn/Fashion and Sustainability as well as developing tomorrow’s crop of young, expressive and professional talent.

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LJMU--
Phillis Ideal

Phillis Ideal has exhibited nationally including exhibitions at major museums and galleries in San Francisco, Santa Fe and New York City. Her work has been exhibited and collected in many private and public collections such as the M. H. de Young Museum, the Oakland Museum of Fine Arts, the Newport Harbor Art Museum and the Fine Arts Museum of Santa Fe. She is currently represented by Rosenberg+Kaufman Fine Arts in New York City.

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Past (Guest)--
Catalina Insignares

Catalina Insignares is a Colombian choreographer and dancer based in Paris. She studied dance in Canada and France, and completed a Master’s degree in Choreography and Performance at the University of Giessen, Germany. Her pieces question the systems of artistic production and their relationship to society. She seeks the moment when dance generates unintelligible, whatever-like subjectivities and collectives. She works always in collaboration and long term associations (Caroline Creutzburg, Miriam Schulte, Else Tunemyr, Zuzana Zabkova, Gretchen Blegen) for choreography, dramaturgy, teaching and performance.

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Fawz Kabra

Fawz Kabra is founder and director of Brief Histories gallery in New York City, where she collaborates with artists on exhibitions and publication projects.

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Advisors--
Dean Kenning

Dean Kenning is an artist, writer and educator who lives in London. He makes kinetic sculptures that suggest an idiotic vitalism and he also has a wide-ranging diagram practice spanning art and learning. He has written about the politics of art and art education. He is the winner of the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2020-21.

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Caroline Koebel

Caroline Koebel is an Austin-based filmmaker and writer, with recent retrospectives at Festival Cine//B (Santiago, Chile) and Directors Lounge (Berlin, Germany). Current research focuses on the relationship individuals have to the greater reality of contemporary global experience and the means by which information is disseminated, gathered and assimilated in the Web 2.0 age. 

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