Dian Joy is a British-Nigerian interdisciplinary artist and educator based in London. Their work explores the intersection of biology and technology through video, installation, and extended reality. Grounded in Cultural Analysis, their work bridges personal experiences and political realities, offering alternative social modalities.

Daira Ronzoni is a multidisciplinary artist. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and raised in the United Kingdom in a multicultural family, these themes run through the artist’s work. Through storytelling, she investigates the origins of culture, agriculture, ch’ixi landscapes, digital VR realms, algorithmic and digital culture in response to the human and non-human experience, and the fourth dimensions within Chicana futurism and ancient andean/maya mythology.

Yudi Wu is a Creative Producer/Practitioner based in Exeter/South West. Being both extremely online and hyper-local, their work focuses on combining creative technology, especially online/virtual spaces, with socially engaged art. They are currently exploring how grassroots artists and marginalised communities could work together towards local regeneration.

Tyler Mellins is an artist based in Sheffield, UK. His work often takes aesthetic cues from the supernatural, informed by his experience working with a team of paranormal investigators. Adopting the methodologies of spirit communication, Mellins creates opportunities to reflect on our changing relationships with information and technology in a post-truth era.

David Matunda is a digital artist and freelance web developer working in the medium of code to explore generative art, live code performance and machine plotting algorithmic work. He is informed by politics, history, philosophy, fashion, religion and cultural ideas surrounding wealth and legacy.

Sleeping Upright (Issy Robertson b.1999, U.K) is a 3D based artist who uses elements of sculpture and animation to create work that reflects on our changing post digital world and investigates the critical narratives that arise from this. Their work focuses on wider societal issues linked to hyper capitalism and the representation of marginalised groups.

Kinnari Saraiya’s recent work िकनर's prakrṭih,̣ nrṭya, laya premiered at QUAD in Derby and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. Her upcoming exhibitions will be at The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle and FORMAT festival in Derby. She has previously exhibited at Kyiv Biennial, Frieze Art Fair, VISUAL Carlow, Russell-Cotes Gallery and Museum and many more.

She was the artistic lead and curator at a Roadside Picnic, where she won an Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica under Computer Animation. Helen Starr’s pioneering essay on her practice will be published in Archivo Papers and presented at their Symposium.

Maria Than is a Viet-British-French creative technologist, educator, activist & co-founder of Ricebox Studio. Using AR, illustration and AI-generated content, she explores her identity as a chronically online Asian woman surrounded by themes of buddhism, over-productivity, anxiety, internalised racism, burn-outs & escapism. She has exhibited in London, Paris, New York and Toronto. In 2021, she became a Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts, an award based on her period activism and AR work. She lectures in BA Graphic Design and in MSc Data Science and AI in the Creative Industries at UAL CCI.

Ryan Heath is an artist and facilitator based in Nottingham, creating moving image, painting and sculpture. His work often explores the history and potential future of specific spaces, framing new possibilities for them; often blending critical urbanism with mysticism.

He has exhibited in the UK and internationally, receiving commissions from organisations including LEVEL Centre, UK New Artists and Ignite Futures. He delivers creative workshops for young people. Previous partners include Nottingham Refugee Forum, Harris Museum and Tate Modern.

He is both a BACKLIT and Near Now studio artist and a founding member of Chaos Magic arts space.

Shae Myles (b.1998) is an artist and community facilitator based in Glasgow. She graduated from Contemporary Art Practice at Gray’s School of Art in 2020; since then, her work has been shown in London, Canada and Switzerland. Her multidisciplinary practice centres around ideas of intimacy, secrets, play, shared eating habits, and mess.

Notable projects include Food Between Culture and Nature, Basel, Switzerland (2021), Healing The Hostile Environment, Jupiter Artland, digital residency (2021), and Myles is also the co-founder of Jiggle n Juice, a collective that focuses on bridging the gap between art school and professional practice.

Abe Sugarman is a multimedia artist based in West Yorkshire who operates as an agent within a game. Abe uses their political proposal ‘Jellyfish temporality’: as a non-linear model of queer time and survival against geological time. Abe combines the circular and entwined web of bodies and systems that exist in the bio-membrane, where a diagrammatic tissue of lies and life-cycles emerge through reverberation, compulsion, and restarting. In this newly formed ‘Anthrobussy’, the rehearsal assembles. Abe enjoys SpongeBob SquarePants, cuttlefish, Gordon Riggs Garden Centre, and their ex-boyfriend.

Ama Dogbe is an early-career digital artist whose work over the last 4 years has used personal auto-biographical and observational drawings as the foundation for her practice. She explores a range of personal and societal themes through digital mediums including experimental film, animation and video games. She believes that being self-taught in the use of various software packages offers the opportunity to create experimental results, uninhibited by conventional use of these softwares. Recent work includes a commission by the Attenborough Art Centre in Leicester, a game playable through online browsers created for an exhibition exploring the theme: The World is Work in Progress. Follow Ama on Instagram.

Jess Pemberton creates generative and interactive digital landscapes that aim to be nourishing and encourage exploration. As society is fast approaching the integration of physical and digital worlds into day-to-day life (MR), Pemberton contemplates the psychological impact of existing in spaces out of harmony with natural structures. She aims to understand the boundaries between designs that benefit the user and reflect the natural world, and those that don’t; by further extension exploring how to be transparent about profit-based agenda and mitigate the manipulation behind this type of activity. Follow Jess on Instagram and Facebook.

Martin Disley is an artist, researcher and creative technologist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His visual practice centres around an ongoing critical investigation into machine learning. His recent work has focussed on the machine learning model and the map-territory relation, feedback loops in inference, behavioural conditioning and training and machine learning in states of incoherence. His work seeks to manifest the internal contradictions and logical limitations of artificial intelligence in beguiling images, video and sound.

Radley Cook is a multidisciplinary artist and designer. His work explores bias acquisition in the development of computational algorithmic systems, the nebulous political discourse of social media and our increasing dependence on modern technologies. He uses satire, reappropriation and interactivity to comment on and provoke discussion about how we think about these societal topics.

In 2019 he graduated from UWE Bristol, with a first class degree in Creative Media Design. The course focused on creative digital media production for online, networked and mobile platforms.

As part of the programme, he explored the playful use of digital media whilst also challenging the media artistically, technically and intellectually. As a result, he has developed a proficiency in traditional art and design practice, allied with an understanding of current web development processes.

See Radley’s online work here.

Liverpool based Jacob Bolton writes, designs and makes art. His big interest is public space — both digital and IRL — and how we understand, access, and interact through it. He writes exhibition reviews for ArtReview, The Double Negative and a few other places. He also designs websites, books, and exhibitions, and does other text and design-based commissions. Other things he’s into include physical internet infrastructure, prejudice encoded into AI, and net-based political climates.

See Jacob’s online work here.

Cassia Dodman lives on the small island of Papa Westray in Orkney, and co-curated its ØY Festival of Islands.

This year she was awarded RSA New Contemporaries and the Visual Artists and Craft Makers Award. Dodman is currently at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop Winter Residency / Lumsden.

Recent exhibitions include Pepsi Genesis, as pepsi collective / dock street studios, Dundee (2019), Orkney's Art Graduates, The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, (2019) and Push Your Fingers Into the World, The Laurieston Arches, Glasgow (2019).

Sulaïman Majali is a writer, artist and educator exhibiting internationally, referenced in Tohu Magazine as an “emerging thinker” in the critique and investigation of materialising speculative futurities.

Recent exhibitions include something vague and irrational, Celine Gallery, Glasgow (2019), Earth Hold, Serpentine Gallery/Qalandiya International, London (2018), this garden, this performed home that incessantly grows, Museum, V&A Friday Lates, London (2019) and Biotropics, Galería Rosa Santos, Valencia, Spain (2018).