Miya Yoshida is a professor of artistic research and head of the
Zentrum Fokus Forschung. Yoshida previously taught aesthetics, media and cultural theories and art history and studied media
and governance at Keio University, SFC, in Japan and completed an MA in art history at Goldsmiths College, University of London
in the UK. After completing her master's degree, she continued her doctoral studies and received her PhD from Malmö Art Academy,
Lund University and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. She is a member of the International
Association of Art Critics (AICA), lectures at international conferences and publishes critical texts on contemporary art
and aesthetics. Her recent writings and publications can be found in
Reformulating the architectures in exhibitions (Exhibition
Amnesia, Curatography Issue.10, Taipei National University of the Arts, 2023),
Listening to the Stones (Kunsthaus
Dresden, 2023),
Towards (Im)Measurability of Art and Life (Archive Books, Berlin 2018),
Sharing
as Caring No. 1-5 (Heidelberger Kunstverein, 2017), among others. She is currently one of the co-curators for the
Asian Triennial Manchester 6.
Monika Halkort is assistant professor and head of the Art x
Science School for Transformation at the University of Applied Arts. Her research and teaching focus on the political ecology
of transformation processes, emphasising, in particular, the role of bio/geo-chemical substances and materials in mediating
historical (in)justice and change.
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