Dr. Gareth Jenkins is an independent researcher, creative practitioner and community development specialist. His theoretical work focuses on avant-garde literature and art-makers that have experienced schizophrenia – he has presented his research in Australia, Europe and the U.S.A. He has created a 5000 page digital archive of Australia’s greatest Outsider Artist and Writer Anthony Mannix, hosted by the University of Sydney. Gareth is a hybrid-media artist and his creative work includes visual art, poetry, digital media and performance. His film collaborations, images, text works and sound works have appeared in numerous publications including Cordite Poetry Review, Rattapallax, The Drunken Boat, Rabbit Poetry Journal, Mascara Literary Review and in The Last Vispo anthology. More of Gareth’s work can also be found here. Dr. Jason Lam is the other kind of doctor by day and an artist working in film, animation and installation the rest of the time. Originally a dancer with Tasdance and Sydney Dance Company amongst others, he got fat/retired to focus on his films and art which have been screened and broadcast nationally and internationally. He has designed for The Australian Ballet, Sydney Dance Company and other leading companies. Jason and long-time collaborator Adam Synnott joined forces in 2008 as Kaboom Studios. Together they hope to take over the world, but in the short term have settled with creating ever more ambitious media projects. In addition to a rich art practice they also created the interactive projections for Graeme Murphy’s ‘Silver Rose’, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ with the Australian Ballet, ‘Some rooms’ with Sydney Dance Company, Leigh Warren and Dancers’ ‘Impulse’ and Sue Healey’s ‘As you Take Time’. They consult widely on interactive installations for museums and commercial ventures. More from Jason can be found here.