Anders Hultqvist is a Professor of Composition (PhD) and Head of Research at the Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg.

Hultqvist’s various commissions and composition projects (1985-2024) consists of works for orchestra, solo with orchestra, choral works, various chamber music constellations, sound installations, musical drama, electroacoustic works, as well as film and theater music. In addition, curating musical and scientific events as a festival director, a conference organizer, and journal editor.

Hultqvist’s artistic research has mainly been within the fields of Urban and rural sound studies, Musical creation/interpretation, and Ecological Sound Art. Research projects, as well as artistic compositional work, frequently takes as its point of departure a combination of artistic, literary, cognitive, physiological, and social perspectives. Some of the more extensive artistic research projects include Composition at the limits of the conceptual. A shrinking emptiness - meaning, chaos and entropy (2015-19) which explored the artistic creation of meaning in musical and literary composition.

Lucy Finchett-Maddock is a legal thinker, artist and activist.

She is known for her critical legal theoretical and contemporary philosophical writings on law, and broadly researches and teaches on the themes of resistance, aesthetics, property, artificial divisions of art and law, and entropy; and uses combination of fine arts-based, art history and legal doctrinal approaches, in her teaching.

Lucy is one of the founders of the Art/Law Network and LORE (Legal Origins Rights Education and Art).

Daniel Hignell-Tully is a composer, performance artist and researcher exploring the limits of participation and sense-making. His wok often seek to locate avant-garde practices within everyday contexts as a means to hieghtening social discourse, as well as engaging with specific social, legal, political and economic barriers.

His research has covered topics as broad as the implementation of Public Space Protection Orders to persecute travelling communities, the media-lingusitcs of the ‘Brexit’ negotiations, and the aesthetic communities that arise through the mis-use of consumer technologies (such as YouTube).

He runs the Difficult Art and Music micro-label, as well as the research outlet 7000 Trees.