Dafna Naphtali is a electronic-musician/performer/singer/composer from an eclectic musical background (jazz, classical, rock and near-eastern music). Since the mid-90’s she composes/performs experimental, interactive electro-acoustic music using her custom Max/MSP programming for live sound processing of her voice and other instruments, and also interprets the work of Cage, Stockhausen and contemporary composers.
Read MoreCarrie E Neal is an integral thinker. Liking the challenge of making connections between diverse fields of study and look for ways to connect the ethereal with the practical, Carrie find ways to bring design thinking, consciousness evolution, facilitation, social justice, and holistic healing to each project. As an artist and maker, the work spans multiple disciplines including video, multimedia theater projects, book making, and quilting.
Read MoreNkechi Deanna Njaka (she/her) is a neuroscientist, choreography artist, leading mindfulness expert and meditation guide. She is the founder of The Compass, NDN lifestyle studio and co-founder of the sleep app DreamWell. She was a 2017 YBCA Truth Fellow and a 2021 Kennedy Center Artist in Residence. She is currently Esalen Faculty, an Advisor of Chorus Meditation, and a lululemon ambassador for her work in mindfulness.
Read MoreRuth Novaczek is an artist and curator, she studied fine art film at St. Martins School of Art in London, and an MA in Fine Art, at Central St Martins in 2000. In 2015 she earned a practice-based PhD entitled ’21st Century Avant-Garde; New Vernaculars and Feminine Ecriture’ from the University of Westminster, London (UK) and is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Westminster.
Read MoreAbbéy Odunlami Ph.D. (b. Abeokuta, Ogun State '82) is a Yoruba-Nigerian-American researcher, theorist, and educator/curator whose work investigates contemporary urban history and visual culture(s). His interdisciplinary practice challenges assumptions of history, culture, race, and conventions of display. Odunlami has worked with institutions such as the Sundance Film Festival, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.
Read MoreFreya Björg Olafson is an intermedia artist who works with video, audio, painting and performance. Her creations have been presented and exhibited internationally at venues such as SECCA – SouthEastern Center for Contemporary Art (North Carolina), OchoYmedio / Alas de la Danza (Quito, Guayaquil and Manta in Ecuador), The National Arts Center (Ottawa), High Performance Rodeo (Calgary), Tangente – Laboratoire des Movements Contemporains (Montreal), Sequences Real Time Media Arts Festival (Iceland) and Medea Electronique / Onassis Cultural Center (Athens, Greece).
Read MoreMorgan O’Hara (Los Angeles 1941) was raised in an international community in post-war Japan. Her practice researches the vital movement of living beings through drawing. In 1989 she began doing performative drawing in international performance art festivals, did her first site specific wall drawings and began the practice of aikido, a Japanese martial art. In 1997 O’Hara’s work was honored with a solo show in the newly opened Drawing Room at the Drawing Center in New York. O’Hara lives in New York and works internationally.
Read MorePhei Phei Oon is a Canada-based Registered Psychotherapist with more than 15 years of clinical experience. She was trained as a Clinical Psychologist and Drama Therapist and has worked at vastly diverse settings including hospitals, academia, non-profit community centers, the corporate world, and recently a reception center for Ukrainian refugees. She specializes in Selective Mutism, grief, and trauma.
Read MoreLisa Osborn has maintained a studio since 1994. Her practice is dedicated to the subject of the figure and the medium of clay. She completed a practice-based PhD at Transart Institute in 2018 entitled 'Encountering Statues: Object Oriented Ontology And The Figure In A Sculptural Practice'. Her research remains focused on what happens when we encounter statues and what is revealed about us when that encounter is considered.
Read MoreEto Otitigbe is a polymedia artist who sets alternative narratives into motion; creating spaces for unique experiences. His interdisciplinary practice includes sculpture, performance, installation, and public art.
Read MoreTom Overton is a writer and and Archive Curator/Postdoctoral Fellow at the Barbican Centre, London. As part of an AHRC-Funded PhD between the British Library and the Centre for Life-writing Research, King's College London, he catalogued the archive of the writer and artist John Berger (1926-2017), and curated a conference, free school and exhibition at Somerset House, London, to mark the 40th Anniversary of Berger's collaborative TV series and book Ways of Seeing (1972) and Booker-winning novel G.
Read MoreAn Paenhuysen is a freelance writer, curator, and arts educator. She wrote her Phd about the cultural criticism of the Belgian avant-garde artists in the 1920s. As a post-doc An has been working on 1920s photography at Columbia University New York, UC Berkeley, and the Humboldt-University Berlin.
Read MoreLaura Parke is a Lecturer in Graphic Design and Illustration at the Liverpool School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University. She studied Graphic Design at the University of the West of England before completing an MA in Graphic Arts.Her practice-based research focuses on Design for Social Engagement and discusses issues of inclusion through collaborations and interactions with a range of practitioners, individuals, collectives and social groups.
Read MoreEce Pazarbaşı works and walks on the merged borderline of curatorial practice and artistic research as her main profession. With her special interest in alternative education, she takes parts in various educational bodies in different positions.
Read MoreNicholas Phillips, Programme Leader Drama, DRAMA, Liverpool John Moores University
Read MoreBorn in Venezuela and based in Porto, Portugal with a background in theatre, Daniel Pinheiro has been exploring, among others, the concept of Telematic Art, using video as a tool and the internet as a platform, merging both languages into a single object of expression. In this field he aims at reflecting on the impact of technology on everyday life and the environment of the Internet as a reflection of a world where the abstract nature of this transmedia movement changes the notions of space, presence, privacy and identity.
Read MoreJudith is an interdisciplinary artist working in mixed media, film, photography and words.
Read MorePrimarily a representational painter, Mains uses art objects to initiate dialogue and experiences.
Read MoreMilos Zahradka Maiorana is an artist-philosopher who began his career as a sound and performance artist. Currently he works with screen printing and bookmaking investigating the threshold between art and writing.
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