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Bennelong Point
Sydney, New South Wales, 2000
Australia

Amrita Hepi

Amrita Hepi is a professional dancer/dance maker, writer and activist; a Bundjulung and Ngapuhi woman interested in movement as manifested by all bodies and reimagining / creating the greatness that will be WOC first nations futures. Her work and practice sits in the nexus between pop culture and contemporary dance with a focus on intersectionality

Amy Reichelt

Amy is an Australian Research Council Research Fellow and lecturer at RMIT University. Her research seeks to explore how the brain controls our behaviour and understanding the mechanisms by which our experiences in the environment can shape our responses to events. A major focus of her research is how our modern day diets full of soft drinks and junk foods can change our brains besides just making us overweight. Our brains not only make us want to eat more of these foods, but these foods are damaging areas critical for forming memories and behavioural control. Amy tries to explain these neuroscience discoveries on radio, TV and print, as well as to general audiences at scientific communication events such as National Science Week.

Bridianne O'Dea

Bridianne O’Dea is a mental health researcher at the Black Dog Institute, UNSW. She is currently investigating the ways in which our “digital footprints” can be used to improve our mental health. After completing her Phd in 2013 on social networking sites and emotional wellbeing, Bridi became interested in decipher-ing what our online activities say about our mental state and whether this infor-mation can be used to deliver care.

Emily Parsons-Lord

Emily Parsons-Lord is an emerging cross-disciplinary artist whose practice is informed by research and critical dialogue with materials and climate science, through investigation into air, both materially and culturally. Exploring air as both a dynamic physical material and an amorphous subconscious site to project imagination, as well as consider scale between the individual and the planet, her work queries the cultural understanding of Anthropogenic traces in air: “Anthropo(s)cenery”.

Jodi Rowley

Jodi Rowley’s research strives to gain a better understanding the diversity and conservation status of amphibians in Southeast Asia, focusing on one of the most topographically diverse and populous countries – Vietnam- and to facilitate long-term amphibian biodiversity conservation. Central to Jodi’s research is scientific expeditions to remote, unexplored, montane forests. These expeditions have resulted in the discovery of over 21 new species of amphibian, including the bizarre Vampire Flying Frog (Rhacophorus vampyrus), a species with fanged tadpoles, and the tiny green-blooded Quang’s Tree Frog (Gracixalus quangi), with males that sing more like birds rather than your average frog. As one-fifth of Southeast Asian amphibians listed as threatened, and current estimates of amphibian species numbers are serious underestimates, with new species are being continuously discovered.

Nick Coyle

Nick Coyle is a writer, artist and theatre maker. His solo works include: Queen of Wolves, Blue Wizard, Double Tribute and Me Pregnant!. His work Guided Meditation was recently staged in New York, and has had previous seasons in London, Edinburgh, Sydney and Greece.

Sandra Garrido

Dr. Sandra Garrido is a pianist, a violinist and a researcher. With a background in both music and psychology she completed her PhD at the University of New South Wales in 2012. Her post-doctoral research at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions concerned the use of music in depression in both the modern day and historically. She is currently an NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Fellow at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development at Western Sydney University. Sandra has published over 30 academic publications including a book currently in press with Palgrave-Macmillan entitled Why We Are Attracted to Sad Music.

Stanislava Pinchuk (MISO)

Stanislava Pinchuk, aka MISO, is an artist working to topographically map conflict zones around the world. Her work centers around large, delicate maps pin-pricked into paper, as well as installation, photography, tattooing, publishing and fashion. Stanislava is born and raised in Kharkov, Ukraine – and currently lives between Melbourne, Australia and Tokyo, Japan.