Aaron James has received commissions from leading european art institutions such as Tate, Arnolfini, National Galleries Scotland, ZKM and Mo.E and has performed as a DJ for Rinse FM, Ministry of Sound, The Waiting Room and Big Chill through his critically acclaimed event series Future History. As an independent researcher, Aaron is currently working on a practice-as-research project entitled Live Curation: A Methodology Towards a New Platform for the Reception of Art. This explores whether the artist as curator and the audience as active agents in the curation of an exhibition, can curate an exhibition live and explicate art and curatorial knowledge relationally. He is currently producing and co-curating Assembly of Disturbance with industrial pioneers and sonic material handlers Test Dept, which is also the first major event of the recently founded Institute of Sonic Art.