Anton Wirjono is a DJ and Entrepreneur, a household name in Indonesia’s creative scene. Along with his brother, Hogi Wirjono, they co-founded Future 10, and succeeded in making a variety of lifestyle and party events like Brightspot Market, Jakarta Movement, Gatecrasher Soundsystem, Turn On Plastic, Back in the Days, and The Junction Bali. In between his hectic days in Future 10, he also the initiator of Jakarta’s own Electronic Act, Agrikulture.
Indonesia: Musyawarah Arsip
UK: Third Version Creative Limited
This research and development project brings together artists, cultural workers, and community organisers from the UK and Indonesia to explore inclusive ways to document culture in societies shaped by migration, transition, and colonial legacies. The project challenges conventional notions of memory, identity, and heritage by platforming experimental, community-led archival practices.
Indonesia
Renewable Energy and Clean Technology at the University of Manchester
Aulia has been passionate about STEM since childhood, watching science fiction films and science documentaries. She believes that her MSc will serve as a bridge between her undergraduate background in geophysics, which focused on conventional energy, and the global shift toward renewables, equipping her with the tools to contribute to solving the energy crisis through sustainable innovations.
UK: Glasgow Short Film Festival
Indonesia: Yayasan Kino Media (Minikino)
Through short films and filmmaker residencies, workshops, and festivals, Minikino and GSFF hope to open a creative dialogue in Scotland and Indonesia around environmental sustainability, social change, and empowerment. This collaboration will seek to find common ground on each organisation’s community challenges in driving social change, facilitating greater inclusion, and developing plans for longer-term partnerships.
Boni is the Director for International Business Development at BEKRAF (Badan Ekonomi Kreatif) or the Indonesian Creative Economy Agency. The Indonesian Creative Economy Agency is a non-ministerial governmental institution with a mandate below the Indonesian President. Prior to Bekraf, Boni was the Deputy Director at the Ministry of Communication and Informatics.
Caglar Kimyoncu is a digital and video artist. His interest is in representations of excluded voices and voices perceived as “other”. His method involves extensive research and interviews. He is also intensely collaborative.
Caglar’s currently working on: Conscience, a multimedia installation. As the 2015 recipient of the Shape Arts Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary, he was Artist in Residence at the New Art Gallery, Walsall, where he completed the first stage of research for Conscience.