Connections Through Culture 2023

Liam Smyth is a Creative Producer with a background in visual arts, design, and illustration. Currently, he devises, curates and manages a range of participatory art projects in the Black Country, UK. He's a strong ambassador for making art more relevant to marginalised communities without compromising on artistic quality. 

Michael has been one of the sustainable voices in Jakarta’s classical music scene. He actively writes and shares his opinions about classical music in Jakarta since 2007 through his music journalism blog “A Musical Promenade”. Asides from writing in his classical music blog, he’s also a lecturer of Music History in Yayasan Pendidikan Musik since 2012. He is currently finishing his postgraduate study in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy in Goldsmiths University of London.

Michael is Neu! Reekie!’s co-founder and co-director; a Robert Louis Stevenson Award winner 2015; a John Mathers Trust Rising Star of Literature Award Winner 2014; a Canongate Future 40 Awardee 2013; a Callum McDonald Memorial Award Finalist 2010; he publishes his poetry with Polygon Books and has earned fans that range from Irvine Welsh and Liz Lochhead to Stephen Fry and Jackie Kay.   

Miebi is a maker and technologist. A graduate in Visual Communication Design. His work centers around the adoption of technology as a medium, which through applied parameters, evolve inherent properties and behaviours, giving form to his ideas.

He founded Digital Nativ, a company of thinkers, builders, programmers, and dreamers with a tendency towards complexity, turning simple rule sets into deep user experiences, pushing the boundaries of future possibilities.