Silvia is a movement artist, filmmaker, teacher in higher education, researcher & dance-movement therapist in Bristol & Bath since 2015. Prior, she lived & worked in São Paulo-Brazil, Florence-Italy and London.
Silvia has been consolidating her practice & research in somatics, embodiment, improvisation, relational practices (Ensemble and Contact Improvisation) & the dialogue with creative technologies, interested in how they can support/enhance human experiences.
Latest works: The Hands Project (2021), Prison Residencies (2021). Silvia is a resident at The Studio in Bath and a member of the Creative Corporealities Research Group at Bath Spa University.
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Swen is a Senior Lecturer of Interaction Design at the University of Gothenburg and Computer Science Lecturer at the University of Plymouth. He is interested in human behaviour & agent design. He works with novel interaction mechanisms to engage users from various also non technical backgrounds; this includes robotic movement expression for social signals such as using auditory information to identify users.
Swen is interested in interaction design, evolutionary approaches, software engineering, AI architectures for games, cognitive research and computational creativity. He spent 3 years as Research Fellow at Falmouth University working on computational creativity, creative apps & user studies.
He holds a PhD from the University of Bath on the subject of Character AI.Before his PhD, he worked for 3 years as a researcher & project manager at Fraunhofer, Germany.
Dan has created music and sound for film, TV, radio, theatre, installations, apps and podcasts.
He has a particular interest in novel and unusual sound sources and has previously made music from the BBC Natural History Unit's sound archive (30 Animals that Made us Smarter - BBC World Service), instruments from Bristol's slave trade history (Noughts and Crosses - BBC One), hospital equipment (The Cave - National Geographic) and the contents of his house (Algoritmo - Netflix).
Chris is a filmmaker specialising in the language of the body. Chris’ freelance work includes documentation, music videos, promos and the adaptation of stage work into film. Chris sees his work in this context as a collaborative process between himself and everyone involved from planning to the finished film.
His independent creative practice focuses around choreography created for the camera, by the camera, and through editing in the making of screendance.
Chris is a Fellow of Bath Spa University where he is exploring how screendance might address issues around climate change.
Holly is a UK based dance artist, and maker with a specialism in inclusive choreography and embodied audio-description for dance. Her practice resides in the often uncharted territory of dance and visual impairment and investigates the aesthetics of choreography from a non-visual, non-ocularcentric perspective.
Holly works with somatic and contemporary dance methods exploring the subtleties of these practices and how they might be reimagined within the context of inclusive dance making and performance.
Minou is a movement artist, choreographer and visual artist with an interest in dance practices conducted both in and with outdoor environments. She holds degrees in Choreography, Visual Art and Social Sculpture. Her practice ranges from small choreographic interventions, to site specific research projects, she often includes photography in her work.
Minou has taught choreography at University Falmouth and she mentors students in one module on the MA program Art & Place at Dartington. Since 2017 she is an art.earth co-director an organization dedicated to the dialogue between art and the natural world. Since 2019, she is a member of the Institute for the study of somatic communication steered by Nita Little.
Minou is currently convening the art.earth symposium Sentient Performativities that will take place in July 2022 in the UK and online.
Award-winning dance and film artist, Lisa May Thomas works at the intersection of performance and technology. Thomas’ award-winning immersive film and performance work has been experienced by diverse audiences around the world. Lisa is a long-term resident at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol; Studio Wayne McGregor QuestLab Network Artist (2019); part of the Pain, Somatics and Technology Network at Coventry University; a member of the Institute of Somatic Communication with Nita Little; and Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the institute of Education at UCL. Her practice-as-research PhD at the University of Bristol (2021) investigated the role of digital technologies in performance, combining dance-somatic and improvisation practices with multi-person VR technology. She is currently developing VR participatory performance Soma - working with visually impaired participants and exploring body image and mental health with young people. She has curated In-Body - an online programme of dancer-led invitations. Her latest project is an immersive, home-based, participatory binaural sound experience The Lockdown Diaries with UCL’s Digital InTouch Lab.
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Jan-Ming is a British-Chinese dancer, musician, somatic bodyworker/facilitator; experimenting from her visceral and felt senses; celebrating our body as sovereignty and home. She has worked as an artist collaborating across disciplines spanning dance, theatre, gallery installations, sound design, immersive performances and healing spaces.
She facilitates creative processes that invite us to drop into our bodies and listen to each other's stories and treasures hidden under the layers.
She has shown her work at venues including Tate Modern, Curve Theatre and Victoria & Albert Museum as well as creating online archives such as Movement Alphabet and Body Portals.
She has developed work that unpacks and zooms into threads between sound, technology and the felt senses including work in collaboration with Tim Murray-Browne (creative coder), ZU-UK Theatre, Music Composition as Interdisciplinary Practice network, Little Big Dance, Kandinsky Theatre, University College London and Bloomsbury Festival; educational work including with Roy Hart Theatre member Margaret Pikes; and improvisational groups including The Next Room, Zootrophic, Playback South and Space and Words Collective.
Claire Coveney is a dancer and Alexander Technique Teacher. Her interests lie in helping people to become more coordinated with and connected in their environment.
Her lifelong interest in movement initially led her to a degree in Dance and Biology from Roehampton Institute, she then completed her training as an Alexander Technique Teacher at the Bristol Alexander Technique Training School Association. Her work and life practice also draws on yoga, contact improvisation, body mind centering, functional anatomy, developmental movement, somatic communication and nature.
She runs a successful teaching practice in Bristol, is chair of Bristol Contact Improvisation Dance and Regional Representative for the Society of Teachers of The Alexander Technique.
Deepraj Singh first started dancing in afterschool capoeira sessions at the age of 8. From there his interest in movement and musicality began to grow. He joined Bristol based youth dance company Kinesis and continued his movement exploration at Cotham School where dance was taught as part of the curriculum. He continued his training via the CAT (Centre of Advanced Training) programme run in Swindon, and was on both the urban strand and contemporary strand before successfully auditioning for London Contemporary Dance School. Deepraj was awarded a scholarship whilst training at London Contemporary Dance School and graduated with a first in July 2015. After graduating he has continued working as a freelance dancer and has toured professional pieces internationally such as Akademi’s ‘The Troth’.
Deepraj draws upon his urban dance techniques when creating pieces, which are rhythmically explorative and emotionally driven. The use of improvisation is prominent within his work, representing the authenticity of human experience. He makes pieces that are accessible on both an emotional and physical level to a wide variety of audiences.
Becca is a producer who specialises in performance in public space and creative technology. She has produced for Trigger, Kaleider, Inside Out Dorset, The Eden Project/14-18NOW and South West Creative Technology Network amongst others. She was Programmer for Dartington Live working with companies such as Darkfield, Onteroerend Goed & Fuel. Working for Activate she strategically developed the Theatre sector in Dorset. Becca is also Creative Director for her own events company and has produced and toured a number of durational digital installations with people at the heart in public spaces.
PONY is an independent commissioning agency, based in the South West of England, producing site responsive public art and creative collaborations that inspire engagement with cultural stories. Whether the outcomes are temporary or permanent, all projects are derived from the experience of an engagement with place and the ideas that formed them. We commission site and situation-specific projects with leading contemporary artists and cultural organisations, presenting ideas which consider the world in new ways. We are official Producing Partners of Art and the Public Realm, Bristol, an ArtsMark Partner Organisation and a proud member of the Gallery Climate Coalition.
Denise Lengyel is a PhD student in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, UK. Her PhD investigates arts-based methods, specifically drawing and writing in combination, as a qualitative research method. She has worked with children and adults, both in the lab and in the field, on topics such as marine life and difficult experiences (death, bereavement, mental health).
She received a Dipl.-Inf. degree (Computer Science MSc) from Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany, investigating a mapping between game playing traces in digital games and personality structures. She also worked as a software designer and programmer, studied human-robot and human gaze interaction and worked on a variety of topics including digital games, interaction and interactivity, active media work with children and parents including the use of arts-based media such as storyboarding and films.
Her skills lie in her strong technical background, her trans-disciplinary approach to research, her ability to work at the 'threshold' between people and technology and her experiences with and enjoyment of working in interdisciplinary teams. Her research interests include arts-based methods and expression, especially image- and performance-based (drawing and dance), visual methods, first person/autobiographical methods, death and bereavement as well as data mining and data visualisation.
Roz is an audio describer and audio description consultant, with more than 23 years experience working in theatre, dance, visual arts and video. I’m also a trainer, training describers in the U.K., U.S., Europe, Hong Kong, India and South Korea. Proof Reading & Image and Alt Tag Descriptions Rachel Aspinwall
Adam is a multi-disciplinary artist and graphic designer.
As a designer he works with social, environmental & creative organisations crafting visual identities and designing content to with a conscience.
Adam is also a visual artist, and co-founder of Caraboo Projects, a Bristol based arts collective striving to build an inclusive and collaborative platform with artists, curators and local members of the community through experimentation and the development of cross-disciplinary projects.
He has an appetite for finding stimulating ways to share creativity with people through public art programmes, visual design and collaboration and values the power of shared ideas and collective enthusiasm.