Martha Hellion is a visual artist, radical publisher, and freelance curator. She is co-founder of the Beau Geste Press, the founder of the Center of Research and Documentation on Artists’ Publications in Mexico City and co-founder of Cephalopedia. She has exhibited work since 1960 and has had exhibitions in Mexico, Colombia, the United States and Europe. She was formally an architect and museum designer but curiosity lead her to investigate dance, music, anthropology and publishing which she unites through her artistic work. She has also been the sole restorer and installer of Chagall’s Aleko costumes for the past thirty years.
David Mayor was involved in performance art in the early 1970s. An acupuncture practitioner since 1982, he has been researching the effects of acupuncture-related interventions on the brain and heart with Tony Steffert since 2011. Last year, he collaborated with Aiste Noreikaite and Zoë Dowlen on a performance in Bordeaux (CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux), and with Aiste in her role as artist in residence for the Cambridge Brainstorm workshop (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit). He then took part again with Zoë and Aiste in Constructive Interference in Paris, and assisted with Future Meditation in Amsterdam. You can read about his research with Tony Steffert at http://www.qeeg.co.uk/electroacupuncture/.
Aiste Noreikaite is a graduate of Sound Arts & Design from University of the Arts London. Before becoming a sound designer, she spent 13 years playing classical piano in Lithuania. Another turn in her journey led her to the Experience Helmet, in which the worlds of Sound, Music and Neurology are fused together. The brainwave sonification project was created as a ‘soundtrack’ for various human experiences but can also serve as a tool for Mindfulness and Well‐being. More recently, this experience has led her to laboratory work recording brainwaves. Previous roles were as an interviewer at Sonica.fm and a member of a laser music band OptoNoise. Aiste has performed in many European countries, recent performances being at Brainstorm in Cambridge, MiSC Media Week in Vilnius and a Pascal Savy Residency in London.
Olly Dowlen is a double bass player, music teacher and academic researcher (with an MPhil from the University of Hertfordshire). Previously a member of Digswell Arts Trust, he has worked in the spheres of free improvisation, mainstream and hot‐club jazz, with singer songwriters and with traditional music ensembles and groups. He is currently working on new pieces for groups of bass instruments, pieces for solo guitar and on new forms of citizens’ democracy.
Zoë Dowlen lives and works in Switzerland, and is currently on a 6‐month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Trained originally in visual arts, she is currently investigating various methods in performance, including Butoh, a form of Japanese dance theatre which she has studied with various masters throughout Europe and Japan since 2010, integrating Butoh into her fine‐arts practice over this period. This work has opened up for her new possibilities for exploration of the body, the imagination, connection with others and to the audience. She performs regularly, always seeking to evolve her own language from these influences. You can read more about her work at http://zoedarling2.wixsite.com/zoedowlen2.
Tony Steffert is an expert on quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG), well known from Croatia to China as a qEEG neurofeedback practitioner and lecturer specialising in dyslexia and ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). In recent years he has been using Virtual Reality to enhance Neurofeedback learning, peak performance and creativity in actors, dancers and musicians. His current research at the Open University is on EEG sonification. You can find out more at http://www.qeeg.co.uk.
Berenice Benjelloun trained in the visual arts, and was a printmaker at atelier 17 in Paris. She taught art, was a fellow of the Digswell Arts Trust, and was involved in many collaborative creative projects, including work with the theatre company The Welfare State. She practised the healing art of Homeopathy for many years and having expanded her interest into the universal quality of numbers, she now is an international teacher for the Connaissance School of Numerology. Berenice has always worked to promote creativity of all kinds and in all fields of human activity, through the creative expansion of consciousness.
Inês Rolo Amado is an artist and researcher; she has a doctorate in Fine Art with a focus on Anthropology and Oral History. She also holds a certificate in Deep Listening®, a programme created by composer Pauline Oliveros, and is one of the founding members of Deep Listening® in the UK. She has three decades of teaching experience, in Fine Art BA MA & PhD Supervision. Her practice as an artist also involves curating and organising; she is the creator of the Interdisciplinary project BreadMatters. Her main area of research focuses on the relationship between doing, empowering, thinking and divulging art, through exhibiting, teaching and curating.
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