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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