Mike Stubbs

Mike Stubbs is a senior creative leader with over 30 years’ experience of producing innovative projects internationally and in the UK. He is a mentor to many artists and curators.

He has initiated and overseen Festivals such as: ArtBomb, ROOT & Abandon Normal Devices, led public facing programs such as FACTlab, European Media Art Residency Exchange and Doncaster Creates. Advised: Jikji International Festival, Cheoungjiu, South Korea, Digital Revolution, Barbican, London, European Capital of Culture 2008 and UK City of Culture Hull, Banff Art Centre, Canada, The National Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan and Creative Capital, USA. For 12 years he was the Director/CEO of FACT, Liverpool, jointly appointed as Professor of Art, Media and Curating by LJMU, 4 years, Head of Program for ACMI, (Australian Centre of Moving Image), Melbourne & 3 years Senior Research Fellow, Visual Research Centre, Dundee University.

Encompassing a broad range of arts & media practice, internationally, Stubbs is an award-winning moving image artist in his own right, showing at the Tate, Baltic, BBC, Channel 4, and museums around the world. Current research subjects include art in the public realm, ecology, town centre re-generation, deep time and work. Currently Research Scholar at Powerhouse, Sydney, investigating the machine.