The Team

Wajid Yaseen is a Manchester-born sound artist and the founder of Modus Arts. His work spans installation, live performance, acousmatic music, graphic scores, and sound sculpture, and has been commissioned by or presented at the ICA, Tate Modern, the Royal Festival Hall, Whitechapel Gallery, Arnolfini, and the Freud Museum. Before Modus, he worked as an electronic musician and producer, releasing work under the monikers 2nd Gen, and Uniform, collaborating with Lydia Lunch, Alan Vega (Suicide), Franko B, and others. He founded the multi-award-winning Tape Letters project and co-founded the participatory destructivist art project Scrapclub.  He holds an MA in Arts and Design (Sonic Arts).

Vicky Clarke is a sound and electronic media artist from Manchester, whose work explores materiality, electrical phenomena and ritual. Working with sound sculpture, DIY electronics, and human-machine systems, she creates electronic artworks that explore our relationship to technology, including themes of human agency in autonomous systems, post-industrialisation, and the techno-emotional states we experience through these interactions. Her work takes the form of composition and live AV performance, DIY machines & sculpture, digital art & research.

James is a director, producer and arts consultant. He is artistic director of Greenwich Theatre, chair of the trustees of Filament Theatre and a columnist for the South London Press. Recent directing credits include Bad Nights & Odd Days starring Paul McGann, and the online premiere of The Secret Love Life of Ophelia featuring Helen Mirren. Producing credits include the national tour of Skin In The Game (Best Performance, Birmingham Fest) and family dramas The Story Of The Yara and The Snow Child, which he also wrote and directed for Maritime Radio. 

Oliver Carruthers is an artistic director and cultural leader with over 25 years’ experience in venues, festivals and cultural organisations, most recently as Director/CEO of the Gulbenkian Arts Centre in Canterbury and as Artistic Director for London’s Rich Mix. Throughout his work, Oliver has championed diversity and inclusion, built a reputation for cross-disciplinary programming, and strived to bring communities, artists, funders and audiences together. Now an independent consultant, Oliver works with organisations to help them think about how they work, articulate concepts, make plans, raise funds, and nurture connections.

Hubbiah Rafaqat is an Erasmus Mundus Scholar and independent researcher who oversees digital communications for multiple Modus Arts projects. Holding an International MA in Children’s Literature, Media, and Culture, she has professional experience spanning narrative design, video game testing, instructional design, and digital media. She is particularly enthusiastic about immersive media technologies & skateboarding.

Mikolaj Tchórzewski (Miko) is a multidisciplinary artist focused primarily on spatial audio. His work, shaped by experiences travelling across countries and cultures, explores sound, space, mysticism, and collective cultural identity within contemporary music and sound art. Drawing on his experience as a live electronic-experimental performer, he creates abstract, evocative work that opens up new experiences. Miko works as a sound designer for movies and a spatial sound recordist for various projects.

Rob is an experienced fundraiser, creative producer, and electronic musician. He has worked in organisations covering the arts, heritage, the disabled community, social welfare, and human rights. Passionate about supporting diversity in the arts, Rob has led and supported numerous high-profile arts projects previously with the Barbican, Shape Arts, Young Urban Arts Foundation, Small Green Shoots, and Drake Music, among others. He has a Master's in Music and Sound Design from the University of Greenwich, where he explored spatial sound and electroacoustic music.