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Ali Hossaini works at the cutting edge of art, technology and science. His artwork Ouroboros was acclaimed by the New York Times, which calls him “a biochemist turned philosopher turned television producer turned visual poet.” He collaborates with a wide range of talent, and his video installations and performances have been presented worldwide. He is a senior research fellow in the Department of Engineering at King's College London and co-director of National Gallery X.
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Aphra Shemza is a London-based multimedia artist and curator. She is also co-founder of Art in Flux and Manager of the Estate of Anwar Jalal Shemza (her grandfather). Inspired by her grandfather, her work explores Modernism, her Islamic cultural heritage, sustainable practice and creating art for all. As an artist and activist, she finds ambitious ways to fuse methodologies from the past with new innovations in technology to imagine what the role of art could be in the future.
Shemza has recently been awarded an Arts Council England grant for her latest project Ocean Rise which leads on from her 2019 project called 'Solutions for a Sustainable Art Practice' where Shemza was awarded a DYCP grant to research sustainable materials. In 2018 she launched www.art-ology.co.uk, a peer resource for artists who wish to be mindful of their environmental impact. Her research on sustainability in media arts has been published by the Electronic Visual Arts conference and she has recently contributed an Eco Art chapter to Dorling Kindersley’s The Artist’s Toolkit which will be published later this year. Shemza exhibits and produces public commissions regularly with partners including V&A, National Gallery X, Canary Wharf Group and Save the Children. This year, Ocean Rise, a large mixed-reality public sculpture made from sustainable materials was commissioned for the Summer Lights Festival in Canary Wharf. |
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Ben is Invisible Flock’s Technical Director. A digital artist and creative technologist, he is interested in the critical use of new technology, as well as place, hardware and sound.
Invisible Flock are an award winning interactive arts studio operating at the intersection of art and technology. We are artist led. Our aim is to open up critically important ways of thinking about how we live, how we connect and share to live better together in a global society. To achieve this we believe that art must be made alongside a broad range of different people. We infiltrate many sectors aiming to have a creative impact on ecology, politics, health and society and to expose wherever possible that everything is fluid and can be rebuilt and reconfigured to be better. |
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Sarah Craske works in the liminal, transdisciplinary space between art, science and technology.
In recognition of their “exceptional early-career”, they have recently been awarded a Jerwood WB Artist Attachment (UK); an 18th month placement with Jerwood Arts, Cement Fields and the Whitstable Biennale that supports their continued risk taking and emerging new research. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, Sarah was already creating a pioneering body of work that responded to the looming antibiotic resistance crises. Supported by the FP7 EU research project SYNPEPTID, Bioprocess Laboratory (ETH Zürich in Basel, Switzerland) and Biofaction (Vienna, Austria), they were awarded a long term residency, embedded in a synthetic biology laboratory (applications from 29 countries). During this time, in collaboration with the scientists, Sarah developed unique pieces of synthetic biology as artworks in their own right. The residency aimed ‘to explore arts or alternative cultural practices’ potential with regards to the visions, challenges, philosophical, aesthetic, and ethical aspects of synthetic biology’. Furthermore, Sarah added ‘a complementary outside-the-box perspective to synthetic biology, its societal ramifications and cultural aspects’ while helping ‘envision the potential long-term changes synthetic biology might bring to society.’ THERIAK explores patterns of human behaviour towards disease across time. Works include a time-lapse film of cholera being fought by Sarah’s own synthetic peptides and an installation across the Basel Pharmacy Museum that reinterpreted its collections. The work was included in the text Creating Art and Science Collaboration; Bringing value to organisations (Schnugg, Claudia), published by Palgrave Macmillan and The Art of Antibiotics (Schmidt, Markus), published by Biofaction. |
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Frances Disley visual artist born Warrington, 1976 lives & works in Liverpool.
Recent works include a commission from Invisible DUst for UnNatural History at The Herbert Gallery Coventry, Epic Luxe a collaborative dance installation and video work with Fallen Angels Dance company comissioned by The Turnpike Gallery Leigh. She recently presented a solo exhibition at Bluecoat, Liverpool and her work "Holo Programme 155" which was part of the show was purchased by the Contemporary Arts Society to become part of the Walker Art Galleries permanent collection. Her performance installation RRR commissioned by Human Libraries with Sefton Libraries was acquired by the Arts Council Collection in 2018. Recent exhibitions, projects & performances include: Cucumber Fell in the Sand, Humber Street Gallery, Hull, 2019; Tripleflex, Bluecoat & MDI, Liverpool, 2019; Solo Show, OUTPUT Gallery, Liverpool; 2019, Inner Landscapes, Hilbert Raum, Berlin, 2019; Residency – Activation #1 Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, 2019; We Are Where We Are, BALTIC 39, Newcastle, 2018. |
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