Contributing Artists and Experts Bios

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Evan Root
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Evan Root worked in theatre as a young man, and as an editorial assistant at the New Yorker magazine. He is a pioneering facilitator who’s been engaged with emergent process, dialogue circles, embodied group practices and transdisciplinary methods since 1981. The awareness practice he embodies is one of the founding pillars of the Dream Palace.

From 1993 - 2018, he helmed Kindling Point, a network organisation who’s courses and workshops were instrumental in embedding somatic-awareness and collective inquiry into creative and organizational contexts - shaping future practitioners in participatory arts, group facilitation, and somatic methodologies.

Evan has facilitated in small and large businesses, charities, and prisons, such as (International) Philips Eindhoven, (UK) London Fire Brigade, (UK) Firebird Trust, (USA) Norfork State Penitentiary, and mostly with self-selecting individuals.

Khan of Finland
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Born of Turkish-Finnish descent, Khan is a pioneer in early electro, acid and techno music with projects such as: 4E, Bizz OD, Cube 40, Khan&Walker, Global Electronic Network, Captain Comatose. Collaborations with:Julee Cruise, Diamanda Galas, Holger Czukay, Brigitte Fontaine, Little Annie, Kid Congo, Jimi Tenor, Tiefschwarz, Alexander Kowalski or Air Liquide. Khan is actively writing, producing, and performing around the globe, as well as recently exploring Fal Bakmak as a practice that moves between perception, imagination, and the creation of meaning.

Jussi Brightmore
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Jussi Brightmore is a British artist whose work explores sleep states and their links to personal and collective unconsciousness. His practice often takes the form of participatory events involving facilitated dreaming in communal settings, where spoken word, sound, and music frame participants’ explorations of liminal consciousness.

Raised in Essex amid the afterglow of the first-wave UK rave scene, Brightmore moves between fine art and music. His work reflects both sound-system culture and the subtle sonic qualities of rural environments.

His recent direction has grown from previous iterations of the Dream Palace. The first edition in Athens (2023) introduced “Dream Share,” a multi-day process in which participants documented dreams during workshops that culminated in a final performance. These ideas expanded during a 2025 residency in Cairo, resulting in a site-responsive performance at DARB Gallery, and have continued through commissions in Lisbon at Casa do Comum and SMUP.

Brightmore has exhibited at Whitechapel Gallery and Elevator Gallery (London), with performances at Grande Halle de Valette (Paris), Berghain (Berlin), Stereolux (Nantes) and Glastonbury Festival. He is based in Lisbon and works internationally.

Vasileios Basios
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Dr Vasileios Basios is a senior researcher in the Physics of Complex Systems at the University of Brussels, with over 25 years of experience in research and coaching. His interdisciplinary work focuses on self-organisation, emergence in complex matter, complementarity and the foundations of complex systems.

Mentored by Nobel laureates Ilya Prigogine and Grégoire Nicolis, Dr Basios received his Ph.D. from the University of Brussels after studying cybernetics with John S. Nicolis. His research interests include foundations of complexity science, emergence in complex matter, nonlinear dynamics and chaos in biological information processing, computability and the logic of extended Bayesian inference. Dr Basios has participated in several research initiatives, including the European Space Agency’s Complex Matter programme and EU projects such as Pythagoras I&II and Thales I&II.

He is deeply interested in the history of scientific ideas and their role in transforming science beyond the mechanistic worldview. His work aims to bring insights from complex systems science to consciousness studies, working towards an inclusive and self-reflexive interdisciplinary science of consciousness. In 2023, his research team received the inaugural Linda G. O’Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize for their study on detecting deviations from random activity as indicators of nonlocal consciousness correlates beyond the brain.

Dr Basios serves in various capacities, including as a speaker for the Scientific & Medical Network after a period as its co-Chair and board member, as a member of the Galileo Commission Steering Team, and as a Trustee of the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL). By contributing to complexity and consciousness research in a variety of formats, from podcasts to books to peer-reviewed papers, he aspires to advance knowledge in this evolving field.

Ash K. Halliburton
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Ash K Halliburton is a multidisciplinary artist whose work moves between film, set design, world-building, and creative mentorship. Beginning her career in fashion and production design, Ash has spent over a decade shaping visual narratives for global brands, independent films, and music artists, weaving emotional intelligence into the physical spaces she creates.
Her practice sits at the intersection of storytelling, psychology, and material experimentation. Trained in the craft of set and production design and informed by somatic awareness, Ash’s work explores how environments shape human experience; on screen, on stage, and within the inner worlds of the people she mentors.

Alongside her visual work, Ash is the founder of Thisisnottherapy, a creative coaching practice guiding artists and entrepreneurs through identity shifts, clarity work, and the architecture of a meaningful creative life. Her process blends intuitive inquiry with grounded artistry, allowing clients to reimagine their possibilities and build futures that feel both expansive and embodied.

Ash has designed for international productions from Iceland to Singapore, collaborated with cultural institutions, and created documentary and narrative film projects rooted in intimacy, beauty, and emotional truth. She is currently developing a series of films and digital learning experiences that merge her visual language with her long-standing interest in human behaviour, grief, and the quiet rituals that shape who we become.

Wassim Z. Alsindi Ph.D.
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Wassim Z. Alsindi is the convener of 0xSalon, a counter-institutional collective critically engaging with technology through art and philosophy. His research practice is primarily concerned with the externalities of networked technologies. Wassim holds a doctorate in experimental quantum physics, writes an editorial column at the MIT Computational Law Report, and co-founded MIT’s Cryptoeconomic Systems journal. His recent writings have been published by 0xFolklore, Aksioma, Ars Scientia Journal, Internet Policy Review, Miskatonic Virtual University Press, NOIA Magazine, Posthuman Press, Spike Art Magazine, The Philosophical Journal of Agorism, and Weird Economies. Through 0xSalon, Wassim has authored numerous solo and collaborative creative works spanning experimental music, satirical theatre, speculative fiction, sculpture, games, poetry, and machinic scripture. He has performed, lectured, and exhibited on five continents, at venues including Akademie der Künste (DE), Art Dubai (AE), AVTO (TR), Chaos Communication Congress (DE), CITYCITY Gallery (TH), Cypherpunk Congress (AR), FIBER Festival (NL), Funkhaus (DE), Goldsmiths (UK), Hothouse (SG), Institute of Contemporary Arts (UK), Kulturværftet (DK), Le Commun (CH), MEET (IT), MIT Media Lab (USA), Norbergfestival (SE), Panke Gallery (DE), Something Else (EG), The Barbican (UK), Unsound Festival (PL), and ZKM (DE).