JONATHAN MAY
Deputy Director (The Ampersand Foundation, UK)
Jonathan May is a cultural programmer and creative producer. Jonathan has specialisms in festivals, creative media and performance art, and his work spans the live performance and visual arts, moving image and lens-based media. Jonathan has experience across arts charities, institutions and commercial studios, and has cultivated an exceptional global network across artforms and organisations.
As a programmer and producer Jonathan leads an interdisciplinary and multi-lingual teams to create ambitious cultural events, collaborations and publications that connect unlikely communities. He has led international, interdisciplinary programmes with festivals and organisations such as Abandon Normal Devices, British Council, Marshmallow Laser Feast, Photoworks, and LIFT. From building-wide takeovers in abandoned buildings of Bogota, installations in Mexico nightclubs and public artworks on São Paulo skyscrapers, Jonathan have over ten years' experience producing live and interactive online experiences and events internationally and within major UK institutions including Tate Turbine Hall, British Museum and Whitechapel Gallery.
Jonathan is regularly invited to mentor creative teams and artists working at the intersection of arts and technology with organisations such as CPH:DOX, Somerset House Studios, and Silbersalz Science & Media Festival; mentees and artworks he has supervised have been recognised with awards such as the Lumen Prize and Stanley Picker Fellowship.
Jonathan was born in Gloucester (UK), 1983, studied Theatre at Liverpool John Moores University, and graduated with distinction with a master’s degree in performance at Goldsmiths University, London. Jonathan is a Clore Fellow.
Spoken Languages: English.