Vid Simoniti is a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, where he also direct the MA programme in Art, Aesthetics and Cultural Institutions. His research focuses on the intersection of aesthetics and politics; recent publications include a contribution to Adrian Piper: A Reader (Museum of Modern Art, New York), "Living Images in Philosophy and in Bio-Art" (Oxford Art Journal) and "Assessing Socially Engaged Art" (Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism). Before joining Liverpool in 2018, Simoniti was a Rubinoff Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, and he obtained his doctorate from the University of Oxford.