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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