Tim Uffindell is a freelance vocalist working as a Voice Actor, Choir Leader, Singer, and Singing Teacher. He is also an Associate Tutor of Vocal Technique at Edge Hill University. He works as a Music Educator with Resonant Tails using his vocal improvisation skills to mimic and encourage voice production of any kind. He is newly fascinated with the world of abstract voice and how it can be a beautiful expression, in a world that may deem it ugly and unpleasant.
Tychonas Michailidis - Artist
Tychonas Michailidis is Research Fellow at Solent University, Southampton, UK. As an artist, Tychonas’s interest focus on human-computer interaction relationships, gesture interaction, sensor technologies, electronic music performance, and compositions. In particular, he is interested how vibrotactile and haptic feedback experience can advance interactive systems and how it can be used as a creative tool in the arts.
Jennifer Anyan - Artist
Jennifer Anyan is an artist, creative director and fashion studies scholar. Jennifer’s research engages in a critical and playful exploration of the fashioned body using interdisciplinary methods. Jennifer also uses her practice as a starting point to write about the fashioned body, working within a theoretical framework that considers both the identity and experience of styled bodies.
Julien Masson - Artist
Julien Masson’s art is inspired by CG aesthetics but also arcs back to random events and the chaotic unpredictability of the physical world. He makes tableaux, sculpture and objects in public space redolent with the haptic textures of both technology and nature.
Katie Daley-Yates - Producer
Katie Daley-Yates is an independent visual art producer specialising in commissioning public art. She began her career at Situations, Bristol where as part of a small creative team she commissioned a ground-breaking programme of public artworks, which set out to challenge the notion of what public at could be and effect change within cultural policy. Now based in Southampton Katie works with local arts organisations and artists to commission public artworks and support a range of creative programmes. www.hostproductions.org.uk
Headshot credit: Max McClure
Kinglsey Ash - Artist
Kingsley Ash is a freelance computer artist whose work explores technology-enabled music performance and interactive installations. Current interests include the investigation of environmental processes through sound and interactivity as well as a range of projects that seek to enhance the unique qualities of the human voice through playful interactive artworks
Anna-Helena McLean - Music Educator
Anna-Helena McLean was a principal of the Gardzienice theatre company in Poland (2000-2007), and toured as the title role in Electra (Barbican BITE 06). She was also musical leader in Metamorfozy and Orkiestra Antyczna and personal assistant to the director Wlodzimierz Staniewski, running workshops worldwide. After 6 years as principal with The Awake Projects, Ensemble, Love Orchestra and Youth company in Sweden (2006-2012), she founded Moon Fool International Theatre & Music Exchange in the UK and works with Tract and Touch in both performance and educational intervention.
Yvon Bonenfant - Artistic Director
Yvon Bonenfant began experimenting with the voice on stage in his early 20s. At the time, he collaborated with Geraldine Morita (link to Mile Zero Dance) in a choreographically-led stage company. Since then, he studied experimental theatre and music, extended voice technique, bel canto singing and installation art, many somatics trainings including body psychotherapy training, and has had artworks, presentations and talks take place in 14 countries. Located in Europe since 2002, he has made touring shows, installations, published and spoken widely, often in collaboration. Increasingly, these teams include scientists and engineers. He holds academic appointments at University College Cork (Ireland) and the University of Winchester (link to UCC academic profile). He has been a Laureate of the Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Large Arts Awards. Two years ago, he gave long-form keynotes at both the British Voice Association Voice Clinics Forum (the key UK voice medicine conference) and at the Imaginate (Edinburgh) Children’s Festival to producing delegates. For his academic profile see this page.
Mary Paterson - Evaluator
Mary Paterson is a writer, producer and arts evaluator who works with interdisciplinary arts. She is the co-author, with Elizabeth Lynch and Rajni Shah, of Dear Stranger: I Love You (Live Art Development Agency and Lancaster University Press, 2013), on experimental forms of art evaluation. Mary has been Chair of the Board of the theatre company Extant since 2018. marypaterson.wordpress.com
