Noriko Okaku is a Japanese audiovisual performance artist who lives and works in London.  Her work explores the eclecticism, mystery and strangeness underlying everyday objects and actions.  She borrows, adopts, copies and recycles existing images to explore the diverse avenues of perception.  She works in various digital media, often incorporating drawing, collage, photography, painting and animation. 

 

She completed an MA in Animation at the Royal College of Art in 2005.  Since then her extensive range of live performance and animation work has featured at events in Barcelona, Seville, Amsterdam, Paris, Tokyo, Kosovo, Geneva, Stuttgart, London, Vienna, Budapest, Zagreb, and Brussels.  Her work has most recently been selected for live performances at the Pyeong Chang and Venice Biennales.

 

 

Enrica Sciandrone is an Italian screen composer who lives and works in London.  As part of her PhD research at the Royal College of Music, she is currently developing a project in music narrative, exploring the potential of programmatic music and audience responses, and bringing her experience as screen composer back to the concert hall.  As part of this project, she has been commissioned to compose a new concert piece to be performed in summer 2015 by renowned ensemble PSAPPHA.

 

She has composed soundtracks for several award-winning independent films, documentaries, animations and TV commercials. Recent feature-length films include Love Of My Life (2013, UK/Australia, drama/thriller), and We Are Many (2014, UK, documentary).  She also worked as assistant for Academy Award winning composer Luis Bacalov (2005-2007), and as score programmer and assistant for Emmy Award winner Javier Navarrete (2012, Wrath of the Titans; 2014, Zhongkui).

 

 

Mark Collington is a British animator, writer, and the Course Leader for the MA & BA Animation courses at London Metropolitan University.  He was previously BA Animation Course Leader at University of Bedfordshire, and lecturer at the Arts University Bournemouth.  He completed an MA in Animation at the Royal College of Art in 2001.

 

He directed Alphabetic The A to Z of Birth (a homage to the artist Aubrey Beardsley) an Arts Council England funded animated short in 2004, worked as a brand development artist in Paris for a menswear company, and is currently writing an animation textbook on the relationship between cultural theory, narrative and animation practice for the publisher Bloomsbury-Fairchild.