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Alexander (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…

Alison 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.

Jean 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).

Yvette 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

Gyungju Chyon’s work focuses on relationships between designed things and environments through engaging natural phenomena and exploring materialities. She is interested in delving beyond technological performance, seeking deeper and meaningful connections between things, environment and people for our health, well-being, and ecological living.

Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie is an international development practitioner with a focus on African development with a growing interest in taking systemic, holistic approaches to understanding and addressing development challenges, while trying to uncover and unravel the multitude of embedded assumptions that define “development”. To this end, dialogue now sits at the heart of Chukwu-Emeka’s practice…

Chella Leigh
Transart Co-founder and Director

An international artist, Chella has exhibited photographs at the Berlin Biennale, Lisbon Architectural Triennale, Tallinn Print Triennale, Rochester Museum of Fine Art, Melbourne Photo Biennale, Ruhr Biennale and Santorini Biennale. Chella holds an MFA degree and studied at Washington Square Institute for Psychoanalytic Training in New York, l’École des Beaux-Arts de Paris and l’Université Paris-Sorbonne and independently with Nicholas Nixon and Robert Frank.

Alessandra Cianetti is a London-based co-director, curator, and researcher. Her practice within contemporary art and performance art explores systemic socio-political issues with a focus on notions and lived experiences of intersectional borders, social justice, and politics of labour.

Hadar Cohen is an Arab Jewish multimedia artist, healer and educator based in Los Angeles. She is the founder of Malchut, a mystical school teaching direct experience of God through heart centered spiritual traditions. Hadar is a Jewish mystic who works to build decolonial frameworks for worshiping God.

Rodolfo Cossovich is a media artist with an engineering background. His position as faculty of NYU Shanghai Interactive Media Arts has allowed him to explore and research different robotic applications, focusing on ways that machines present traits of living beings.

Sean Clute is an interdisciplinary artist, composer and performer. Clute’s creations embrace hybridization of media and interactivity to explore forms of interdisciplinary expression. By developing custom software and hardware, Clute experiments with technologies and methodologies to construct audiovisual instruments, sensor-based interfaces and computer generative processes. Collaboration, a key element in his work, is employed through partnerships with choreographers, musicians, scientists, writers and artists.

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.

Dorit Cypis is an artist, educator, mediator, and community-builder exploring how history, identity, and social relations inform one another, guided by the question “Who are we to one other?”

Stefanie Denz, MFA, BEd, RCT, is an artist, educator and art therapist living on an Island on the west coast of Canada. Her practice includes drawing, painting, installations and collaborative movement. Stefanie is interested in space, bringing three dimensionality to her surfaces, and the sensibilities of the exchange between the different areas.

Rachel Dagnall is a visual artist based in Norway working predominantly with sculpture, sonic scenography, performance and film. She holds a BA from Glasgow School of Art and Masters in Fine Art from Oslo Art Academy and a Masters in scenography from Norwegian Theatre Academy.

Fayen d'Evie is an artist and writer, born in Malaysia, raised in Aotearoa New Zealand, and now living in the bushlands of unceded Djaara country, Australia

Spelman Downer has worked as a visual artist since 1977, with studios in New York City, Santa Fe, NM, San Francisco, CA, Anchorage, AK, Hoboken and Jersey City, NJ. Lives in the Mojave Desert in Yucca Valley, CA where he is director of Gallery Turquoise South.

Gina Dominique is a New York based artist-academic. She has had 13 solo shows, most recently 'Skin Deep- On Abstract Painting & the Nature of Beauty' at Greenspring Gallery, Stevenson University, Stevenson, MD. Her art has been shown in more than 50 group exhibitions across the US and in England.

Deborah Dudley is founder and artist in residence of Mehitable Blish Studios in Brooklyn, New York. Dudley specializes in curating, cataloguing, and reimagining a person's relationship to the art and artifacts within their daily lives, extracting the oral histories of individuals and families through their most treasured and mundane possessions.

Steve Dutton
Co-PhD Programme Leader
Admissions and Partnership Development

Steve Dutton is an artist, researcher and curator who works on both collaborative and individual projects. He is developing a new body work under the working title of “industry” which is including drawings, sound works, animations, objects and texts. His work is difficult to classify, as it moves between various media, materials, processes and forms.

Lucy Finchett-Maddock is an artist and academic at Sussex Law School, writing, researching and teaching in the fields of critical legal theory and speculative philosophy. She is one of the founders of the Art/Law Network and writes broadly on the themes of resistance, aesthetics, property, artificial divisions of art and law, and entropy.

Britta Fluevog is a third-generation-matriarchal artist; her grandmother was a printmaker, her mother is a mixed media artist, as well as her father, who is a shoe designer. Born in Vancouver, Canada, Estonian-Canadian Artist Britta Fluevog is currently living in Jülich, Germany. Fluevog’s art practice primarily uses weaving and ceramics to create sculpture, and performance pieces.

Marie France Forcier is a Canadian choreographer, performer, writer and pedagogue of contemporary dance forms. She is the director of Forcier Stage Works and the co-director of ReLoCate . Through studio research, public performances, publications and community initiatives, she predominantly engages with the intersection between trauma studies, somatic practices and western contemporary choreography.

Jewel Fraser works as an audio documentary producer building on and utilizing principles learned during her many years writing features as a journalist. She has embraced audio now as her preferred medium since it permits her to create stories that are more multi-sensory.

Andrew Freiband is an artist, filmmaker, educator, producer, and research-artist. His praxis sits among the many intersections of art, education, media, film, journalism, literature, social impact, international development, research, and strategic design.

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.

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.

Victoria Gray (PhD) is an artist and practice-led researcher, and has presented work nationally and internationally throughout the UK, Europe, USA and Canada. With an initial conservatoire training in dance and somatic practice (1998 - 2004), and a PhD in philosophy, her primary medium and material is the body.

Alex Grünenfelder is a Canadian and Swiss artist and designer studying the sensory and relational nature of landscapes. His projects employ performance, printed matter, informal pedagogy, and expanded sensory modalities of tasting.

Carles Guerra (Amposta, 1965) holds a PhD from Universitat de Barcelona. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Universitat de Barcelona and the Media Studies Department, The New School for Social Research. He has pursued a career in art criticism, teaching and research. His most recent profile has been associated with outstanding positions in the field of cultural management, cultural policies and curatorial activities.

Carl Haase received a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the Maine College of Art, Maine, US in 2001. In 2005 he completed a four-year apprenticeship in a letterpress studio in the Maine, US. Shortly thereafter, he founded and operated a silkscreen studio which specialised in fine art printing in conjunction with freelance design projects. Currently he is continuing this body of research as a PhD candidate at the University of Antwerpen’s ARIA (BE) program.

Jenny Hawkinson is a social practice artist interested in the intersection of conflict engagement and contemporary art. In her practice, ‘artist’ and ‘advocate’ hold equal weight. After receiving a BA in Visual Art in 2010, she moved to Vancouver, BC to establish roots in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.

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.

Don Handa is a curator living and working in Nairobi

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.

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.

Perri Lynch Howard is a socially-engaged artist exploring sense of place in a changing climate. Informed by a meticulous process of place-based listening, recording, and analysis, her expansive visuals and immersive soundscapes map the shifting edges of sound, space, and interaction, fostering direct connections with a planet in flux.

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.

Brittanie Jackson is a New York-based academic and creative who is intrigued by the developing self and the factors that contribute to the resulting outcomes. Her primary interest, rooted at the intersection of psychology and art, is the artist and the artist’s experience.

He Jin Jang is a Seoul-born, multi-city-based choreographer, researcher, curator, and essayist whose transdisciplinary practice spans choreography, critical somatics, Korean indigenous medicine, and post/decolonial thought. Rooted in the body as a site of political, ancestral, and speculative knowledge, her work moves across performance, text, ritual, and installation—often in fluid collaboration with artists and thinkers. She engages deeply with themes of invisibility, refusal, ritual, and resilience, approaching choreography not as product, but as method: a form of sensing, remembering, and unmaking.

Alden Jones holds degrees in Comparative Literature, Hispanic Studies, and Creative Writing from Brown University, New York University, and Bennington College. She is the author, most recently, of the hybrid memoir The Wanting Was a Wilderness. Her story collection, Unaccompanied Minors, won the New American Fiction Prize and was a finalist for a Publishing Triangle Award and a Lambda Literary Award.

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.

Paige King is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, working internationally with art and technology organizations. Paige organizes project streams and exhibitions with Thoughtworks Arts and Cyland Media Art Lab collective.

Beth 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.

Michael Kliën is a choreographer and artist whose work has been situated around the world. Kliën’s artistic practice encompasses interdisciplinary thinking, critical writing, curatorial projects, and, centrally, choreographic works equally at home in the Performing as well as the Fine Arts.

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. 

Paula Kramer is an artist-researcher and movement artist based in Berlin. She holds a practice-as-research PhD in Dance (Coventry University) and was a post-doctoral researcher at Uniarts Helsinki between 2016 and 2019. She is currently active as an independent artist-researcher and until the end of 2020 as a visiting researcher at the Centre for Artistic Research of Uniarts Helsinki.

Anthi 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.

Syowia Kyambi
MFA Programme Leader 

Syowia Kyambi is a mixed media artist, who enjoys performing characters within her performance installations to tell stories, an alternative layered narrative about history in an attempt to disrupt mono-cultural violence. The connection between the psyche, history and the entanglement that exists within non-stagnant identities is ever present in her creative process. Her practice probes issues of race, perception, hierarchical systems, gender studies and body memory. Based in Nairobi and of Kenyan and German origin, Syowia Kyambi has received commissions by the Kenya Institute of Administration, the National Museum of Kenya and the Art 4 Action Foundation in Kenya.

Yuen Fong Ling is an artist and Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, specialising in social art practice, post-colonial art and queer art theory, and founder member of The Human Memorial Research Collective. Ling has an MFA from Glasgow School of Art (2005-7), and a Fine Art PhD by Practice from University of Lincoln entitled “A Body of Relations: Reconfiguring the Life Class” completed in 2016.

Birgit Larson investigates the rules she (we) live by, dissecting, mending, normalizing and reallocating behavior. Her performative work designs or enhances guidelines in her own life, creating a long form performance that becomes a part of her daily life and identity.

Louis Laberge-Côté is a Toronto-based dancer, choreographer, teacher, and rehearsal director. An acclaimed performer, he has danced nationally and internationally with over 20 companies, and has been a full-time member of Toronto Dance Theatre (1999-2007) and the Kevin O’Day Ballett Nationaltheater Mannheim (2009-2011).

Anne Labovitz (born 1965) is an American artist based in St Paul, Minnesota, whose practice includes painting, drawing, and printmaking as well as experimental film and sound.

Greg Lock’s sculptural curiosity for investigating materials is sustained through what I consider the comparable experimentation with virtual digital objects. The results of my playful interaction with materials both physical and virtual often results in objects; my artwork. I show and share this work and I find the challenge of curating my own practice for exhibition a fulfilling experience.

Neo Sinoxolo Musangi is a queer feminist living in Olkejuado, Kenya. They work in art and academia; is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Art, Design and Social Research (CAD+SR); is a founding member of the Black Planetary Futures Collective, and teaches Gender and Sexuality Studies at St. Lawrence and American University.

Eve Provost Chartrand earned an MFA at the University of Calgary in Canada and is now a PHD candidate both at Transart Institute and Liverpool John Moores University. Her current work investigates the nature of women’s negative body representations associated with aging. Her visual iterations explore the implications to self-identity and agency of current negative body definitions in women’s lives through the implementation of creative case studies.

Caden Manson is an artist, curator (Contemporary Performance and Special Effects Festival), and educator. Through the company Big Art Group, their performance work creates radical queer narrative structures and embodiments to construct and aid transitory generative critical space for participants and audience. Their work is dense, fast, multi-layered, and traverses multiple genres and forms, often using interference, slippage, and disruption strategies. Manson has presented throughout 14 countries and over 50 cities in Europe, Asia, and North America.

Elena 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.

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

Judith is an interdisciplinary artist working in mixed media, film, photography and words.

Primarily a representational painter, Mains uses art objects to initiate dialogue and experiences.

Andrew McNiven was born in Edinburgh in 1963 and studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths' College, graduating in 1987, a contemporary of many of the artists who rose to international prominence during the 1990s. He received his MA from Goldsmiths' in 1995. Since 1990 his work has been shown nationally and internationally by, amongst others: the Lisson Gallery, the Whitechapel Gallery, the Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, and the Neue Galerie, Dachau. Recent projects include ‘The First Night of Experimental Boredom’ at 222Lodge, Dordrecht (NL), ‘Visual Art by Verbal Means’ at Kunstal Rotterdam (NL); 'The Understanding Gaze': Perre Bourdieu/Andrew McNiven, White Box, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, (DE). He completed an AHRC-funded, practce-led PhD at Northumbria University in 2011. Previously a lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art, he is currently Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at Zeppelin Universität in Friedrichshafen, Germany.

Nancy Messegee is a text- and movement-based artist living in Austin, where she is dedicated to fully inhabiting and exploring the sacred spaces of body, home, and world through iterative creative practice. Born in upstate New York, she grew up in a village of 750 residents in Alaska, which she left at 16 to attend and then graduate from Yale, becoming the first woman in her family with a college degree.

Rene MG believes that art is an experience and is enhanced when shared with others and when it includes interactive and visceral moments. She created PIP art popup in 2016. PIP=participatory immersive/interactive performance art operates on the idea that the viewer/participant is invited into a space where they can chose to participate, facilitate or watch. PIP is site-reactive, site-specific and site-enhancing based on deep hanging out and research.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Mical is Professor of Architectural Theory. Previously a tenured faculty in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and he has taught and lectured internationally. His research crosses architectural theory, media-philosophy, design research methods. He edits the book series Architectural Intelligences (Brill).

Milos 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.

Hanae Moreno explores the physical and collective nature of the human form through painting. She seeks to understand what it means to occupy a body in space. Her work is also an autobiographical journey. Although she paints people, her work is not only of individuals. She looks at the weight of a sitter’s presence in intimate discourse with herself, and seeks to capture the experience of the self as viewed and interpreted, and the self as viewer and observer.

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh (Ph.D. Columbia University) is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Babson College teaching courses in world literature, philosophy, cultural studies, and visual art. He also holds a faculty position at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA) and is Director of the Transdisciplinary Studies Program for the New Centre for Research & Practice.

Dr. Jade de Montserrat was the recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship supporting her PhD (via MPhil) at IBAR, UCLan, and the development of her work from her Black diasporic perspective in the North of England. de Montserrat works through performance, drawing, painting, film, installation, sculpture, print and text. 

Musyoki Mutua is a multi-talented artist hailing from the vibrant Akamba community in Kenya.

Ogutu Muraya is a storyteller, performance artist, and writer, with a profound curiosity in the connection between the spiritual and the neurological, between realms of thinking and meaning, change and understanding.

Dedicated choreographer who can work with dancers and actors off all ages and experience level proficiency at organizing live performance helping to integrate costume into performance and developing routines, specialized in large theatre productions.

Jisun Myung is a food performance artist and musician who leads community based projects with 2 cups of love and a sprinkle of humor. Her most recent work is the Miyeokguk (미역국, seaweed soup) Project - A performance of identities of Korean women diaspora and their reproduction stories (AZ commission on the arts R&D grant recipient 2022).

Carrie 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.

Diasporas Now is a London-based live art platform founded in 2021 by Rieko Whitfield, Paola Estrella and Lulu Wang at the Royal College of Art. In 2025, they were in residence at the Institute of Contemporary Arts programming talks, workshops and performances exploring artists as catalysts for alternative futures.

Nkechi 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.

Rosie Olang’ Odhiambo is a curator, bookmaker and artist based in Nairobi, Kenya. She is facilitating a session for the Trans Art residency in Nairobi

Holly Rhame is an artist based in Hudson, New York. The driving engine behind her practice is the process of recuperation or the inclusion of all that is abjected from consciousness. This process of death and rebirth generates a unique symbolic order that she uses along with the process of image making as a map for the building of her life as well as for my continued investment in the process of individuation.

Bill Ratner is a storyteller.

Raphael is a film and media scholar and digital artist.

Stephanie Reid is an interdisciplinary artist whose focus on fine art and photography lead into film making, video, animation / effects, and sound as mediums for more complex storytelling.

Ferdinand / Holly Regan is a multidisciplinary writer and artist who explores the ways that we connect, transcend, and heal through altered states. As a queer and trans person, they focus on the experience of underrepresented communities through work for the page, stage, table, and screen.

Aisha Richards is an author, a practicing designer for over a decade and an academic activist. As breathe of practice evolves she applies intersectional social justice to everything she does. Founding Shades of Noir, The Centre for Race & Practice Based Social Justice her work has inspired and informed the full spectrum of creatives and educational practitioners across the UK.

Kim Robertson is an artist and educator. She has a Bachelor’s in Design (Textile Design) from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Arts, Dundee, and an MA in Fine Art from the RCA in London. She founded her own design and manufacture company based in London selling works to boutiques, galleries, and high-end department stores.

Dr. 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.

New York painter Mark Roth’s work is focused on issues of extinction, rewilding, eco-grief, ethology and painting’s capacity as a tool for inquiry and solace. 

Steve Rowell is an artist who works with photography, moving image, sound, installation, maps, and spatial concepts to produce complex multicomponent projects. His practice investigates terrains of perception, nonhuman intelligence, ecologies, and technology, exploring the landscape as a site of political imagination. Steve contextualizes the morphology of the built environment with the surrounding medium of Nature, appropriating the methods and tools of the geographer and archaeologist.

Helen Scheuer Cohen is a painter.

Gabriela Saenger Silva is an arts practitioner and researcher specialising in education and socially engaged practices. Socially engaged practices and community work Futurism Horticulture and food. She is a PhD candidate at the Exhibition Research Lab at Liverpool John Moores University.

Lorenzo Sandoval works as an artist and curator, and produces spatial devices that work as narrative machines. Since 2015, Sandoval runs The Institute for Endotic Research, which opened as a venue in 2018 in Berlin, co-directed by Benjamin Busch, and recently by Amouefa Amoussouvi too. His recent research deals with divergent genealogies of the connections between image production, textile making and computation.

Frank Andrew Scott’s childhood was spent mostly outdoors, as he was born on the plains of Oklahoma, and raised in the mountains of Colorado. When the cameras transitioned from film to digital, he transitioned from painting to photography. He is now combining his lifelong love of being outdoors in the landscape and his extensive experience of working for the camera by photographing the dystopian environment of the Los Angeles River.

Michael Schwab is a London-based artist and artistic researcher who investigates postconceptual uses of technology. Through a focus on experimentation and the exposition of practice as research, Schwab has developed a conceptual approach that links artistic freedom with academic criticality.

An independent curator, Luisa Santos holds a Ph.D in Culture Studies by the Humboldt & Viadrina School of Governance, in Berlin, and M.A. in Curating Contemporary Art by the Royal College of Art, in London. Luísa Santos is also a Researcher in Culture Studies / Artistic Studies, since 2019 at the CECC of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Between 2016 and 2019, she was Assistant Professor, with a Gulbenkian Professorship, at the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

Miriam Schaer is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist who uses artist books, garments, photography, installation and collage to explore feminine, social, and spiritual issues. She is represented in numerous collections, including the Alan Chasanoff Book Arts Collection at the Yale Museum, the Arts of the Book Collection at Yale’s Sterling Library, the Mata & Arthur Jaffe Collection: Book as Aesthetic Object at Florida Atlantic University, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Harvard University, and the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History & Culture at Duke University.

Kim Schoen (b. 1969, Princeton) lives and works in Los Angeles and Berlin. She received an MFA from CalArts in 2005, and a Master of Philosophy from the photography department at The Royal College of Art in London in 2008. Her work in photography and video installation has shown at numerous institutions and galleries worldwide including LACMA, MoCA, The Los Angeles Museum of Art (LAMOA), Richard Telles Fine Art, Young Projects, Moskowitz Bayse, LM Projects, and LAXART in Los Angeles; MMoCA (Madison Museum of Contemporary Art), BAM, Brooklyn, NY; The South London Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, MOT International in London, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome; Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporaneo, Spain; Archive Kabinett, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Kleine Humboldt Galerie, and Edith Russ Haus für Medienkunst.

Dawn Schultz is a movement artist and educator currently creating works out of Monmouth County, New Jersey (USA). In 2018 she founded the Movement Exploration Laboratory, to promote choreographic perspective in young artists and is the co-director of the Dance Department for the Visual and Performing Arts Program in Ocean Township Schools.

Dr Jo Scott is an artist-researcher and educator, who researches through making performances and sound walks. Jo’s current research uses sited sound to explore the more than human world. She has completed more than 20 artistic research projects, as well as supervising and examining 12 practice-based PhDs.

Shereen Shalhoub has been working in the arts since 2006. She began with a gallery and painting, then shifted to sculpture and finally ceramics, where she has developed an interest in installation art and has had the opportunity to showcase three installations in Dubai. She has been working with ceramics since 2017 and continues to research the world of ceramics and all the possibilities it holds.

Gabrielle Senza is a transdisciplinary artist who exhibits, lectures, and performs internationally. Her creative practice investigates the phenomenon of invisibility and examines what - and who - is seen, hidden, acknowledged or ignored in social, political, scientific and environmental realms.

Edward Shanken is best known for his scholarship at the intersections of contemporary art and new media. He has supervised dozens of MFA and practice-led Ph.D. students in the US and Europe and is committed to helping former students succeed in academic careers. He is Professor of Arts at UC Santa Cruz.

Brady Smith is a visual artist, working and living in his hometown of Arvada, Colorado. He holds a BFA in 2-D Studies with an emphasis in etching from Brigham Young University - Idaho and a Master’s in Contemporary Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art - London.

Simon Terrill is an artist and researcher working with photography, performance, drawing, and installation. His ongoing inquiry into crowd dynamics and collective image-making has taken shape through large-scale public projects, including the long-running Crowd Theory series that seeks to reimagine the crowd through posthumanism, participatory methods, and aesthetics of emergence.