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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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Simon Moreton

Writer, artist and researcher


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Jo Lansdowne

Director of Research


Mandy Rose

Mandy Rose

Director - Digital Cultures Research Centre


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Verity McIntosh

Senior Lecturer: MA Virtual and Extended Realities


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Barney Heywood

Co-Director of Stand + Stare and Mayfly


Lucy Telling

Co-Director of Stand + Stare


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Laura Kriefman

Choreographer: augmented dance


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Dr Tine Bech

Experiential Artist, Public Art, Immersive Art, Light Installation


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Seth Jackson

Helping brands learn to play with emerging technology


Rik Lander

Rik Lander

Maker of interactive and participatory media


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Vanessa Bellaar Spruijt

Watershed Producer


Tim Kindberg

Tim Kindberg

Writer, digital creative


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Victoria Tillotson

Head of Talent Development


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Simon Evans

Artist, Game Designer & Developer


Bill Sharpe

Bill Sharpe

Futures and systems thinking practitioner


Hazel Grian

Hazel Grian

Writer


Clare Reddington

Clare Reddington

Watershed Chief Executive Officer


Duncan Speakman

Sound, walking, technology, weather


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Constance Fleuriot

artist/writer/gamemaker