ThinkNation: Citizen of Nowhere collider

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Bill Thompson

Principal Software Engineer, Research & Development BBC

Bill joined Research & Development at the BBC as a Principal Software Engineer after working as Head of Partnership Development in BBC Archive Development. There he worked on a range of projects that made the BBC's archive more accessible to partners and the public. Today he leads the team exploring ways in which the BBC can use the latest technologies to deliver new forms of value to the public.

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Bex Anson

Visual Theatre Director & Scenographer

Bex is a Glasgow based visual theatre director & scenographer interested in audience experience, experimental environments & collective synergy. She co-founded art gallery Lowsalt & multidisciplinary collective 85A. She is an associate director with Bassline Circus, where she created her first, large scale outdoor circus show The Boomtown Games, & is currently developing FLIP: A Vectorised Circus.

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Anthony Onumonu

Principal Software Engineer, BBC

Anthony is an Interactive Developer passionate about development for desktop, mobile and connected TVs through good design. He is a Principal Software Engineer at the BBC and is currently working on BBC Snippets - a tool for Factual programme researchers.

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Dr Jocelyn Spence

Human-Computer Interaction and Performance Studies

Internationally recognised in the fields of human-computer interaction & performance studies, Jocelyn has held research fellowships through the Digital World Research Centre at the University of Surrey & the Mixed Reality Lab at the University of Nottingham. Her current research uses performance-led research in the wild & VR digital storytelling to develop gifting interactions in museum settings.

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Mal Abbas

Game Designer, Artist & Producer

Malath is a game designer, artist & producer working on experimental & meaningful games. He established Scotland's first game collective and co-working space Biome Collective: a diverse melting pot of technology, art & culture. Current work includes Killbox, an online game & interactive installation that critically explores the nature of drone warfare. He has a 2016 BAFTA Scotland Nomination.

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Ruth Catlow

Artist

http://ruthcatlow.net/

Ruth works with emancipatory network cultures, practices & poetics. She is co-founder & artistic director of Furtherfield for arts, technology & social change. She’s co-curated Furtherfield exhibition programmes since 2005 including Being Social & Digital Zoo. She co-curated Collaboration & Freedom – The World of Free & Open Source Art (2011) - for Arts Council England & P2P Foundation.

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Tom deMajo

Tom is founder & director of Biome Collective. His work explores the effects & uses of tech & media in society & culture & has been applied to screen, theatre, computer games, exhibition installation, & hybrid virtual/real works. Tom has also collaborated with organisations such as National Theatre Scotland & with internationally known artists like Elizabeth Ogilvie & Joseph DeLappe.

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Damien Smith

Founding Partner of ISO Design

Damien is a founding partner of ISO Design, which specialises in design-led interactive and immersive media installations for Museums & Galleries, Brand Experience & Visitor Centres and Broadcasters, working with clients such as the BBC & Channel 4. The studio recently launched a dedicated R&D arm to explore future technologies & is presently working on projects in Ireland, Kuwait, Oman & China.

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Cat Harrison

Artist & Producer.

Cat works as a Project Manager for Artsadmin, producing projects for artists including Chris Dobrowolski, Curious, & Amy Sharrocks. As an artist with collective Non Zero One, Cat has co-created interactive theatre pieces for venues including Tate Britain, Barbican & National Theatre. She’s also a board member for Crying Out Loud, a creative producer that nurtures artists working in visual theatre.

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Max Dovey

Artist, Researcher & Lecturer

Max Dovey is an artist, researcher & lecturer specialising in the politics of data & algorithmic governance. His works explore the political narratives that emerge from tech & digital culture that manifest into situated projects & participatory scenarios. An affiliated researcher at the Institute of Network Cultures, his work has been performed at Art Rotterdam & many UK music festivals.

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Heather Doran

Public Engagement Manager, Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science, University of Dundee

https://www.dundee.ac.uk/leverhulme/

The team at Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science work on citizen science projects to connect the public with forensic science and generate robust data for the field. The centre is funded to disrupt the forensic science ecosystem. Heather is a member of the Public Communication of Science and Technology committee. She also sits on the Editorial Board for The Biochemist publication.

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Albert Elwin

Artist & Programmer

Albert is an artist and programmer. Originally from New Zealand, Albert now lives and works in Scotland. He co-founded Space Budgie, an independent games studio in 2013, creating the game Glitchspace. He is a Graphics/Engine Programmer and co-director at Biome Collective.

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Bronwin Patrickson

Creative Economy Engagement Fellow in Digital Design for SGSAH and the University of Dundee

Bronwin’s research interests include creative industries, digital writing & playful design. She’s made documentaries for Australian Broadcasting Corporation, been a journalist & designed a prototype for a gamified essay writing application. Recent research publications explore poetics of multi-participant computer-mediated environments, mobile learning & creative applications of blockchain tech.

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Kai Fischer

Theatre Designer & Theatre Maker

Kai Fischer is a theatre designer and theatre maker. Much of his work draws on documents and interviews connected to real events in living memory to create individual audience experiences. Kai's projects often rely on an inventive use of sound. In his work as a set and lighting designer, he often takes a minimalist approach which provide triggers and spaces for the audience's own imagination.

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Eve Nicol

Director & Playwright

Eve is a director & playwright. She makes new work led by text and music which explores obsession, sensuality and relationships. She is the Artistic Director of Heroes Theatre, a contemporary writing company who have performed in fields, festivals, pools, pubs & stages across Scotland. Recent work includes UK tour of her debut play, One Life Stand, which explores sex & intimacy in the digital age.

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Angus Farquhar

Freelance Artist

Angus’ work spans performance, site-responsive theatre, music production, alongside creating temporary and permanent capital projects. An honorary fellow at Glasgow University he’s currently working on a new wild garden for SWG3 in Glasgow. He was Creative Director of NVA organisation, one of the UK’s most successful independent arts charities, from its inception in 1992 till closure in 2018.

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Lucy Gaizely

Multi-Disciplinary Theatre Maker

https://21common.org/aboutus/

Lucy is a multi-disciplinary theatre maker, & lead artists & founding member of the Glasgow arts & social action collective 21Common. Most recently, Lucy co-curated & creatively led on National Theatre of Scotland’s festival Futureproof in celebration of 2018 Year of Young People. Her enduring interest lies in work that examines motherhood & societies collective (or not) responsibility to children

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Roy Mudie

Leverhulme Application Specialist and PhD Student

https://www.dundee.ac.uk/leverhulme/staff/details/roy-mudie.php

With an aptitude for working with bleeding edge technologies, Roy works at the Leverhulme team as an Application Specialist, focusing on pushing the technological requirements the centre requires.

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Lynn Love

Digital Artist, Play designer & Lecturer

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Dan Barnard

Theatre Director, Workshop Facilitator, & Teacher

Dan has over ten years experience of creating theatre and participatory experiences. His freelance directing work includes Three Way by Yusra Warsama and Begin Again by Elinor Cook. A Senior Lecturer in Drama and Performance at London South Bank University, his research centres on interactive theatre. He is also a trained Open Space facilitator.

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Jasmine Cox

Development Producer, BBC Research & Development's Future Experience Technologies

Jasmine is a Development Producer with BBC Research & Development's Future Experience Technologies group, she's usually based in the North Lab. Championing human-centred design in the field of HCI; Jasmine is helping take object-based media to the next level by supporting content creators with tools and workflows that enable real-world production for responsive object-based experiences.

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Iain Simons

Director of Culture, BGI & Co-Founder of the National Videogame Archive

Iain is an active speaker and writer in the field of videogames and new cultural technologies, and co-author of the book 100 Videogames (BFI Screen Guides). He’s also the Director of GameCity, who run the annual GameCity festival in Nottingham which has been labelled the “Sundance of the videogames world”.

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Martina Seitl

Experienced Artist, Co-Director, Innovator, Choreographer, Researcher, Experience Designer and Lecturer

@LundahlSeitl http://www.lundahl-seitl.com/

Martina is an experienced Artist, co-director of Lundahl and Seitl, innovator, choreographer, researcher, experience designer and lecturer with a demonstrated history of working in the arts, choreography, new media, innovation and research. She is skilled in Contemporary Art, Art Education, choreography, sound editing, new media, virtual reality, film, apps, installations and movement analysis.

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Joe McAlister

Computational Artist & Privacy Advocate

Joe is a computational artist and privacy advocate whose work usually focuses on themes encompassing metadata, security and embodied interaction. These subjects are approached using a variety of mediums, including programming, sculpture, projection and interactive theatre. He creates coherent pieces that seamlessly blend technology with fine art.

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Alan McKendrick

Writer, Director & Translator

Alan is a writer, director & translator working across theatre & opera. Work includes an epic adaptation of Alexander Trocchi's cult novel Cain's Book (Untitled Projects/Arches) & The Eye, a free adaptation of Georges Bataille's Story Of The Eye featuring kinetic sculptures, robotics, silicone prosthetics & live performer. He’s worked with Malmö Opera, GoMA, Opera Philadelphia, Riot Group & more.

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Sean Yu

Sang-hun Yu is the 3D animation & visualisation support specialist & PhD student at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, developing content in virtual & augmented reality. He’s working on collaboration VR projects between DJCAD & Leverhulme Research Centre in forensic science. Previously he worked as an animator on Oscar-nominated animated film ‘l'illusionniste’.

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Rachel Alexander

Dramaturge, Lead Collaborator with Lundahl & Seitl

Info coming soon

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Lewis Hetherington

Lewis is a playwright, director and performance maker whose work is rooted in collaboration & finding new ways to tell stories. He's passionate about trying to explore voices & narratives which are not being heard, & to find the most potent way to share them with an audience. His work has presented throughout the Scotland & internationally including in Australia, China & USA.

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Rachel Briscoe

Artist, Director, Dramaturg, Producer and co-founder of fanSHEN

https://www.fanshen.org.uk

Rachel participated in the inaugural Producer Farm in 2016 and was a member of SIPA’s core group which set the industry sustainability goals launched at PLASA in October 2015. She was part of the British Council’s SPACE programme in 2013/14 and for 5 years to 2015 worked at Ovalhouse as Director of Theatre. She is a Near Now Fellow 17/18 and was selected for Collusion's AI Lab in 2017.

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Robbie Thomson

Artist working with kinetic sculpture, robotics, sound art and theatre

@robbiefthomson http://www.robbiethomson.co.uk/

A visual artist working in sound, kinetic sculptures and visuals, Robbie is based in Glasgow, and is: a member of 85A, a founding director of the Glue Factory in Glasgow and a Cryptic Associate Artist since 2013. His recent 2016 performance, XFRMR, has toured extensively including performances at Melbourne Festival & Edinburgh Festival. His Cryptic projects have been presented around the globe.

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Leonie Rae Gasson

Director

@Leonie_Rae_92

A theatre director making interactive live experiences, Leonie works with phones, games, apps, 360 film, performance & sculpture. Her work explores queerness & challenges homonormativity. Upcoming work includes an adaptation of R.U.R. for one audience member & one robot, & interactive narrative fictions made with young boys from Easterhouse, Glasgow. Co-artistic director of Produced Moon & F-M-I-N

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Graham Eatough

Theatre Maker

http://www.grahameatough.com/about/

Graham is a theatre-maker who also works in visual art and film. His work often blurs the boundaries between theatre and art, challenging an audience’s perceptions of reality and fiction and their terms of engagement. Most recently, Graham conceived and directed the adaptation of Naoki Higashida’s book about autism The Reason I Jump for National Theatre of Scotland.

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Chris Cole

Scientist

Chris has a desire to revel in the beauty of world around. He’s worked primarily in the area of Computational Biology, now applying his knowledge of Artificial Intelligence/Deep Learning to Forensic Science. He’s exhibited a couple of pieces: GenomeScroller, exploring representations of human genome, and impactFactor: tongue-in-cheek look at how scientists are rated by the journals they publish in

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Rhoda Ellis

Artist, Sculptor & Creative Producer

https://rhodaellis.com/

Rhoda Ellis is an artist, sculptor and one of the Creative Producers at Biome. Her work fuses together her background in Neuroscience, with her interest in sensory perception, with her research in Phenomenology and its implications for Virtual Reality. Rhoda’s practice centres around the notion of the object and the non-object, the physical and the virtual, and all the spaces in between.

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Joseph DeLappe

Professor of Games and Tactical Media, Abertay University, Dundee

http://www.delappe.net/

Joseph's internationally acclaimed work focuses on online gaming performance, sculpture & electromechanical installation. In ’06 he began the project dead‐in‐iraq, to type consecutively all names of America's military casualties from Iraq war into US Army’s first person shooter online recruiting game. He also developed the concept behind “Killbox”, a BAFTA Scotland-nominated drone warfare game.

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Simon Meek

Writer, Designer & Director

Simon is a writer/designer/director of mixed-media fiction and contemporary art, founding artist of The Secret Experiment & V&A Dundee’s first Designer in Residence, focussing on creating a new work called Fragments of a Fictional Place. His career spans journalism, television production & designing/directing story-driven videogames, the latest of which, Beckett, is on display in V&A Dundee.