SENSING THE CITY Sue Ball Sue is a curator/producer and director of Media and Arts Partnership (MAAP), working in social and public settings for over 20 years. She has a particular interest in working across disciplines, specifically with sound and the social network as a context for cultural activism and has recently run a national interdisciplinary research programme Ways of Hearing; into the act of listening and the relationship of the listener to their world. She has worked with notable artists in the field of social practice and sound including Hans Peter Kuhn (Neville Street, Leeds 06/09); Bill Fontana (Birmingham University/ACE 05/07) and has coproduced a number of city festivals including Situation Leeds 05, and Expo Leeds 09 with Sound and Music, a four day programme of sonic art and experimental music in public space. www.maap.org.uk Bob Levene Bob Levene is an artist based in Sheffield & London. Her work manifests as recorded video & sound, performance, installations, films & photography, she is currently pondering (rather slowly) on Land Use, Infrastructure, Capitalism and Trees. She has presented work at ICA (London), Arnolfini (Bristol), Cornerhouse (Manchester), NGCA (Sunderland), Yorkshire Sculpture Park (Wakefield), Kiasma (Helsinki), DCA (Dundee) and the BBC Radio 3 Cut & Splice Festival (London). She recently exhibited a new commission at National Media Museum (Bradford). She has been nominated for the Northern Art Prize and received an Arts Council Fellowship. Bob is an Associate Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. www.boblevene.co.uk
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