Throughout 2025, we are collaborating with four curators as part of our Curatorial Development Programme, generously supported by the John Ellerman Foundation. Established in 2023, this annual programme aims to nurture a diverse new generation of curators, helping them build confidence, acquire skills, and gain experience in producing and presenting work that intersects art and technology.

At FACT, we believe curatorial knowledge is crucial for understanding the significance and potential of artistic practice and making it accessible to a wide audience. Now in its third year, our resident curators—each at different stages of their careers—have become invaluable contributors. They lead research initiatives and assist in delivering our exhibitions and events, enriching the cultural landscape of FACT. 

From left to right: Martyna, Milia, Shannen SP and GLOR1A.

Martyna Puciato

Curatorial Assistant

Martyna is a Polish theatre maker based in Liverpool. Since 2019, she has co-led Mooncup Theatre, a grassroots collective that fosters dialogue between women, LGBTQ+ individuals and broader audiences. For most of her career, her practice has used traditional theatre and dramatic narrative to explore gender identity. Since returning to Liverpool Hope University in 2023 to study MA Contemporary Performance, she has started experimenting with projection, installation and digital world-building, and the themes of her practice have expanded to include migrant identities and human/material movement across borders. Recently, this has naturally developed into experimenting with more digital art forms and their potential to play with the expected formats of conventional theatre.

Working with socioculturally diverse artists at Liverpool Hope University and FACT helped her find new ways to communicate stories she wanted to tell—ones rooted in her migrant experience and expressed through a broader range of media. During her residency at FACT, Martyna was successful in receiving DYCP funding. This experimental phase allowed her to explore how immersive technologies can be used to communicate migration narratives, offering more impactful, multi-sensory experiences that bridge the gap between audience and story.

Milia Xin Bi

Curator-in-Residence

Milia Xin Bi is a curator and writer based in Manchester. Her curatorial practice explores the intersection of art, decentralised technologies and contemporary social (sub)culture. Her research focuses on the multi-temporalities, manifold materiality and mythopoetic world-building embedded within intelligent technologies and networked media systems. Since 2017, she has been an integral part of Chronus Art Center, where she has led and contributed to numerous interdisciplinary projects. Her writing has appeared in The Thinker, Aksioma publications, China Academy of Art Press, and more. She is the winner of the Hyundai Blue Prize Art+Tech 2022 and has been selected as Curator-in-Residence at FACT Liverpool (2025–2026).

CEL (Shannen SP and GLOR1A)

Research Curators

CEL is a newly formed Black, female art collective founded by interdisciplinary artists Shannen SP and GLOR1A. Their collaboration grew out of the exhibition Nine Nights: Channel B at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 2021, where they worked to platform Black culture in response to the persistent undervaluing of Black lives, the growing protest movements and the pandemic’s impact on nightlife and live music. As CEL, they focus on Black art preservation and resistance, tackling systemic racial inequalities in the arts and the global music industry by exploring new modes of artistic empowerment.

Martyna, Milia and CEL's residencies are part of our three-year Curatorial Development Programme, generously supported by the John Ellerman Foundation.

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