Denise Thwaites is a curator, writer and researcher of British and Uyghur descent, who lives and works on unceded Ngunnawal and Ngambri country. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Arts at the University of Canberra, where her research focuses on contemporary cultural economies. Denise was awarded her PhD in Aesthetics through The University of New South Wales (Australia) and l’Université Paris 8 (France), before joining UNSW iCinema Research Centre as a Postdoctoral Fellow. She has worked in the contemporary arts sector at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Australia Council for the Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (all Sydney), while also co-curating independent projects for the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam), Artspace (Sydney), This Is Not Art Festival (Newcastle), New Beginnings Refugee Culture and Arts Festival (Sydney), and Next Wave Festival (Melbourne). Her research has been published in Cordite Poetry Review, Meniscus Literary Journal, Runway Journal of Experimental Art, Performance Paradigm, Artlink, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Culture, Theory and Critique and Derrida Today.
Wendy Somerville is a Jerrinja woman who teaches in the Culture and Heritage degree at the University of Canberra (UC). She is the inaugural First Nations Post-Graduate Research Fellow in the Centre for Cultural and Creative Research. She researches with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts and Artefact Teaching Collection, UC.