Lumin

Address - Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape, Suffolk, IP17 1SP

Email - hello@lumin.org

Joana Seguro is an independent producer and curator working in electronic music and new technology, with a growing interest and strong track record in linking these two fields across other forms and disciplines. She carries on with Lumin’s artistic management strand representing artists Mira Calix and Felix’s Machines. Joana came to the UK from Portugal fourteen years ago as a pharmacology student, and pursued her passion for the underground music scene she discovered here. Since then, she has built a successful career in this area of music, creating an eclectic, fluid range of projects and events with the artists who excite her. These projects range from conceiving, producing and developing her own club nights to curating international festivals, artist management, producing tours and one-off projects, alongside work for some of the major record companies (Mute, Warp and Virgin Records) specialising in electronic music. In 2001, she set up her own company Lumin, of which she is owner and Director, and throughout has pursued partnerships with some of the major music institutions active in contemporary and electronic music. She regularly advises organizations of contemporary music including PRSf and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation amongst others.  Previous projects include the Ether Festival at South Bank, Shhh! Goes digital at the V&A, Hayward Nights, 555, Faster Than Sound ( part of Aldeburgh Festival ) and many more. In 2006 she completed a Wellcome Trust funded Clore Leadership Fellowship on Arts Leadership. Joana was also Sound Producer for BAC/Punchdrunk¹s The Masque of Red Death, Culture Tutor of the IDE department at the Royal College of Art and executive producer for The Longplayer Trust. Her most recent project is as Music Curator of EVENTO-Bordeaux¹s Art and Architecture Biennial in October 2009. Currently she is associate producer of Aldeburgh Music, devising their innovative programming strand Faster Than Sound and based in Suffolk, UK.

Tam Vibert was born in Cornwall in 1971. Since graduating in Literature, with honours, from Queens University Belfast in 1992 she has travelled, studied and worked around the globe. She spent 7 years in Australia before returning to London in 2006. A qualified Counsellor and workplace trainer Tam specialises in Personality Typology, Group Facilitation and Employee Engagement. A practised public speaker, she has over 15 years practical experience in people management. Tamsin has a personal and professional connection to the Arts; in 1999 she opened an Art gallery with her Dad in St Ives, Cornwall, which has continued to grow and develop, nurturing fresh talent through an innovative model of gallery management. Tamsin is a published non-fiction writer and award winning spoken word performer, featured many times on the ‘Going Down Swinging’ compilation cd series and the ‘EAZE’ live recordings. In Australia she worked with her partner to start up an independent record label, and managed a successful Artist Booking Agency. She went on to produce and promote a series of popular multi-media nights throughout Melbourne. Tam was invited to become a Managing Director of Lumin, by the company owner, Joana Seguro in June 2009 and since then she has taken responsibility for Artist Management, Contract negotiation and all other aspects of HR administration. Tamsin is also currently managing Village Underground, the iconic Shoreditch cultural space, an evolving project building an international platform for creativity and culture.