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Joss Affleck

Joss Affleck (they/them) is a BAFTA award-winning, Bath-born multidisciplinary performer, artist, animator and educator working across film, animation, design, visual art, and live performance.Their practice draws on ritual, ecology, folklore, and queer storytelling, exploring how narratives and…

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Alison.Stott

My practice explores the spaces between art and science, craft and technology, glass and light, material process and lived experience.After more than two decades working in digital VFX, I shifted my focus toward glass and light as a way to escape the precision and predictability of a screen-based…
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Nick Murray

Nick Murray is a producer, game-maker and artist making socially-led narrative work focusing on loss, collective memory and digital cultures. This often takes the form of games, interactive poetry and performance. They were one of Pervasive Media Studio’s Winter Residents (February-March…
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Nina.Redman

I am a speculative designer exploring emerging technologies through projects such as Nature-centric AI, clothing recycling systems, and intelligent automation in fast fashion. Designing objects for worlds that don’t yet exist, I create scenario trajectories and speculative futures that tell…
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