Professor Birgitta Hosea is an award-winning artist and director of the Animation Research Centre at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Surrey, UK. She was previously head of animation at the Royal College of Art and prior to that at Central Saint Martins. Her innovative approach to expanding animation in the art gallery has been exhibited internationally including Venice & Karachi Biennales; Oaxaca & Chengdu Museums of Contemporary Art; Hanmi Gallery, Seoul; Centre for Recent Drawing, London; Hunan Museum, China. Her work is in the Tate Britain and Centre d’Arte Contemporain, Paris, archives. She has co-curated events and exhibitions for, amongst others, Adobe, Ars Electronica and Guizhou Provincial Museum and written publications on drawing, experimental and expanded animation.