The New York Times describes Ali Hossaini as ‘a biochemist turned philosopher turned television producer turned visual poet’.  Hossaini is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London, and he served as co-director of National Gallery X, a programme that explored the future of art and cultural institutions.  Previously Hossaini led Connected Culture, an action research project that created protoype cultural applications for 5G. A working artist, Hossaini’s genre-spanning career includes installations, performances and hundreds of media projects. Hossaini is Trustee of the Young Vic, and a Fellow of the Nantes Institute for Advanced Study.