Mike Stubbs

Mike Stubbs is the Director/CEO of FACT, the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, a leading organization for the commissioning and presentation of film, video and new media art forms. In his role he has major responsibility for the development of culture and cultural policy in Liverpool, UK where the foundation is located. Stubbs was jointly appointed in May 2007 by Liverpool John Moores University, where he is Professor of Art, Media and Curating.

Previously he was Head of Exhibition Programs for the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Senior Research Fellow at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design Visual Research Centre (The University of Dundee) and founding Director at Hull Time Based Arts (HTBA).

As a cofounder of ROOT, Burning Bush Bush and the Abandon Normal Devices festivals, a project of FACT and Cornerhouse Stubbs has commissioned and produced over 350 exhibitions, interactive, site specific, performative, sound and moving-image based exhibition programmes and artworks. These include White Noise, Stanley Kubrick and Pixar for ACMI, Sk-Interfaces and Pipilotti Rist for FACT’s Capital of Culture 2008 programme. Stubbs is part of curatorium for the Liverpool Biennial.

Stubbs has won awards for his work in the arts and moving image. His work encompasses film, video, mixed media installations and performance. He has won more than a dozen major international awards including first prizes at the Oberhausen and Locarno film festivals and an award for his documentary, Cultural Quarter at the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival. In 1999 he was invited to present a video retrospective of his work at the Tate Gallery, London.

Stubbs is on the board of Culture Campus and holds the post of Chair for ReWire, the Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology. 28 – 30 September 2011 and Liverpool’s Ropewalks Stakeholder Group.

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