Robert Ayers has been making performances for twenty-seven years. He is Artistic Director and Professor of the Contemporary Arts at the Nottingham Trent University and project champion for the Nottingham Future Factory project. During 1999 and 2000 he performed his most recent performance Manifesto throughout Britain, Ireland, and the United States. His publications have involved him working with artists such as Stelarc, Orlan, Annie Sprinkle, Marina Abramovi, Franko B, Coco Fusco and Alastair MacLennan. In 1998 he acted as guest curator to the [British] National Review of Live Art.