Keynotes

EVA London 2026 Keynote Speakers

Paul Luckraft

Paul Luckraft is a London-based curator with experience across a range of organisations. He currently Head of Programme and Artist Liaison at Gazelli Art House, London. Recent exhibitions include Subject to Change, Gazelli Art House, London (2025), Parallel Worlds, Gazelli Art House, Baku, Azerbaijan (2024) and a major commission by Libby Heaney for Frieze Sculpture 2024, Regent’s Park.

Prior to this, Paul was Senior Curator at Zabludowicz Collection, London, where he contributed to a programme with a particular focus on Art & Technology and commissioning new work. Noteworthy solo exhibitions include LuYang (2022), Shana Moulton (2019) and Rachel Maclean (2018), alongside the group exhibitions Among the Machines (2021), You Are Looking at Something That Never Occurred (2017) and Emotional Supply Chains (2016). Additionally, Paul led the Invites programme, which offered opportunities to emerging UK-based artists.

Stephen Wolfram

Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Language; the author of A New Kind of Science; the originator of the Wolfram Physics Project; and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Over the course of more than four decades, he has been a pioneer in the development and application of computational thinking—and has been responsible for many discoveries, inventions and innovations in science, technology and business.

Based on both his practical and theoretical thinking, Wolfram has emerged as an authority on the implications of computation and artificial intelligence for society and the future, and the importance of computational language as a bridge between the capabilities of computation and human objectives. He writes regularly about his activities and thinking on his Stephen Wolfram Writings site.

Professor Milton Mermikides

Professor Milton Mermikides is a composer, guitarist, academic, technologist and educator obsessed with how music works (the nature of music) and how music can help understand and engage with the wider world (the music of nature). He is Professor of Music at the University of Surrey, Professor of Jazz Guitar at the Royal College of Music, Senior Research Fellow and Composer-In-Residence of the Centre of Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing (University of Oxford), and the 37th Gresham Professor of Music – a historic post founded in 1597 whose previous incumbents include John Bull, Iannis Xenakis and Joanna MacGregor. 

Milton has collaborated with John Williams, Brian Eno, Tim Minchin, Evelyn Glennie and Peter Zinovieff and has given keynote lectures and public events at the Royal Musical Association, the Science Museum, the Smithsonian Institute, The Design Museum, The British Sleep Society, the Royal Society of Medicine, and the Royal Physiological Society.

Professor Mar Morosse

Professor Mar Morosse is based at the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at Baruch College (CUNY), New York. She received her doctorate in Art History from the Université de la Sorbonne and brings extensive international experience across academia, curatorial practice, and the art market. She previously served as Senior Art Director to the Spanish Royal Trust, led her own art direction consultancy, and worked at Sotheby’s in New York. She has organised numerous exhibitions, including a project on Salvador Dalí’s early years for the Fundación Residencia de Estudiantes and at La Maison de la Monnaie in Paris.

Mar’s research and teaching focus on early modern European art. She currently serves as Chair of the International Committee of Artists and Designers of the College Art Association. She was a panellist at EVA Berlin (2025 and 2026), where she addressed the impact of artificial intelligence and new technologies on art history and its teaching.

Astryd Park

Astryd Park is an engineer, artist and writer whose innovative artistic practice, academic research and product/experience development are informed by an exciting mix of art, science and technology. Their work has been presented in various locations, including most recently, London Tech Week, the Science Gallery London, and Berlin Science Week. Currently a Quantum Applications Engineer at Moth, their role involves leading creative and practical quantum software product development while outside work, their research spans kinetic sculpture, moving images and tangible experience drawing on Philosophy, Physical computing, Neuroscience and Quantum computing.

Dr Bronaċ Ferran

Dr Bronaċ Ferran is a researcher and writer with a doctorate on Hansjörg Mayer’s titles of the 1960s (Birkbeck, University of London, 2023). Her long-form essays on artists include James Bloom (Mousse Publishing, Milan, 2025) and Jiayu Liu (Wangshikuo Foundation, Shanghai, 2026). She has been commissioned to write catalogue essays by LACMA; ZKM Karlsruhe; the Migros Museum in Zurich; MAC-USP, São Paulo; Tate Liverpool and Tate Modern; the Mayor Gallery and Victoria Miro, London; her exhibition reviews are published in Right Click Save and Studio International. She has a chapter in the 2026  Edinburgh University Press publication,Transformative Repetition, in Experimental and Post-Digital Poetics, ed. Bruno Ministro.

Between 1995 and 2007 Bronaċ pioneered interdisciplinary arts practice and policy at Arts Council England, convening among other things the ground-breaking CODE (Collaboration and Ownership in the Digital Economy) conference, the first anywhere to bring together free and open-source protagonists with social anthropologists, artists, lawyers, physicists, and EU policymakers.