Juries

Amanda Gutiérrez

Amanda Gutiérrez (b. 1978, Mexico City) trained and graduated initially as a stage designer from The National School of Theater. Gutiérrez uses a range of media such as film and performance art to investigate how these conditions of everyday life set the...

Annie Mahtani

(United Kingdom)

Annie Mahtani is an electroacoustic composer, sound artist and performer working and living in Birmingham (UK). Her output encompasses electronic music composition from acousmatic music to free improvisation. Her work often explores the inherent sonic ...

John Levack Drever

Operating at the intersection of acoustics, audiology, urban design, sound art, soundscape studies, and experimental music, Drever’s practice represents an ongoing inquiry into the perception, design and practice of everyday environmental sound. He has a...

Josh Kopeček

(United Kingdom)

Josh is CEO and founder of Echoes, which specialises in geolocative audio. ECHOES is an open-access platform which allows creators to make and publish incredible GPS-triggered walking experiences. ECHOES also designs bespoke apps which focus on sound a...

Kim V. Goldsmith

A storyteller exploring hidden narratives through sound (Australia)

I'm an Australian-based interdisciplinary artist whose creative output uses sound, video, and writing to explore layers of nuance and complexity within the rural and regional territories in which I work. I'm always looking for new voices and pers...

Andrea Zeffiro

Andrea Zeffiro is Academic Director for the Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship and Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and Media Arts at McMaster University, Canada. For fifteen years Zeffiro has collaborated in transdisc...

Blake Morris

(United States)

Blake is a walking artist and researcher based in New York City. His work focuses on participatory walking practices, the walk as invitation and walking together at a distance. His monograph Walking Networks: The Development of an Artistic Medium (London: ...

Clara Gari

Walking, cooking, loving, exploring and wine drinking (Spain)

Clara Gari is an artist, a researcher, art curator and cultural manager. She is the co-founder and director of the Contemporary Art Center Nau Côclea, and of the walking program Grand Tour. Her biography joins cultural management and art practice with...

Claudia Zeiske

(United Kingdom)

Claudia Zeiske is a Scotland based curator and art activist who realises a lot of her projects through walking, bringing people, ideas and politics together.

Fiona Hesse

Art Historian (Ph.D.), Curator, Lecturer based in Germany with focus on Modern and Contemporary Art, specialised on Walking Art

Radhika Subramaniam

Radhika Subramaniam is a curator and writer with an interdisciplinary practice. Through text, exhibitions and public interventions, she explores the poetics and politics of crises and surprises, particularly cities and crowds, migration, walking, art and h...

Viv Corringham

(United States / United Kingdom)

I am a singer, walker and listener, British but currently based in New York. I've been working for about 40 years, making soundwalks, concerts, radio works and sound installations, and hold an MA Sonic Art and a Deep Listening teaching certificate. In m...

Andrew Stuck

Co-founder of walk · listen · create (United Kingdom)

Andrew is the founder of the Museum of Walking, created to bring people together and to make and showcase walking pieces and performances. Andrew also is a podcaster, interviewing creative people who use walking as a catalyst for their practice. Talking Wa...

Carlos Queiroz

(Brazil)

Cultural Geographer. Associate Professor. Interdisciplinary researcher-artist and Aspiring Game Designer Interested in the topics: new urbanisms, everyday life, meaningful human interactions and gamification. __________ Associate Professor III in the...

Dakota LaCroix

(United States)

Dakota La Croix’s MERAKI-filled cinematic audio and video creations are sparked by a radical curiosity that seeks to explore storytelling and story listening as an invitation beyond the traditional narrative story structures and styles in hopes of evokin...

David Merleau

(Canada)

I am a radio producer and folklore storyteller with a penchant for biology. My works construct collaborations between two creative forces: Technology and Nature. In my locative sound walks I aim to create a positive feedback loop where the site-specific ...

Geert Vermeire

co-founder of walk · listen · create (Belgium)

Geert Vermeire is a curator, poet and artist, moving constantly between Greece, Portugal and Brazil, with a focus on spatial writing, locative sound & performance and social practices. He develops collaborative processes, departing from the ethical in...

Babak Fakhamzadeh

Co-founder of walk · listen · create (Netherlands / Iran / Brazil)

Babak was working in ICT4D before it had a name (2001), never really left it, and knows how to throw together a pretty mean combination of a wide array of programming languages, both frontend and backend. He brought photomarathons to Africa (2007) and won ...

Yiannis Christidis

(Cyprus)

Yiannis Christidis is a sound anthropologist, ethnographer, and designer. His academic and artistic research focuses on the cultural aspect of sound, its functionality in everyday activities and the relationship between the listeners and their place.

Molly Wagner

(Australia)

Molly Wagner is an ‘unintentional migrant’ to Australia. She left the USA in 1988 for an anticipated five-year residence in Australia and continues to live there. She experiences a chronic sense of transience and impermanence, and Walking Art gives her...

Philip Cowell

Wonder walkshop facilitator at creative walking non-profit Street Wisdom with daily walking practice and experience as walking performer (eg in Matthias Sperling's Walking Piece). Arts fundraiser for street-based outdoor theatre at Good Chance, including f...

Ivana Pinna

(Spain / Italy)

Multidisciplinary artist, Catalyst at IVYnode, responsible for the planning, implementation, organization of the AiR program, events and curatorial exibition projects. Master Degree in Political Science, ITC Specialist, Yoga Tearcher Certification Trainin...

Renate Zentschnig

(Netherlands)

Renate Zentschnig is a graduated theater scientist at the University of Amsterdam and is active as a theater maker since 1992. She obtained her Masters at Dasarts in 2004 and has since then worked as a filmmaker / visual artist / sound artist. The bound...

Richard White

walking-with, uncomfortable presence, social justice

UK based walking and multimedia artist/researcher Richard White devises, curates and hosts walks involving listening, sensing, making and asking questions. His participatory performative practice, Walknow, explores accountability and seeks to develop resp...