Dylan Yamada-Rice

Dylan Yamada-Rice is an artist and researcher specialising in storytelling and play. She works in a range of media including drawing, Virtual Reality and game engines. Dylan studied Japanese Art History, semiotics and social science research methods before moving into experimental design. She obtained a

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Lana Pericic

Lana is a Research Assistant at i-DAT supporting the Arts Institute and the development of the Far South West Immersive Cluster. As a postgraduate research student undertaking the MRes Digital Art and Technology programme and supports the BA/Bsc Digital Media Design as a Teaching Assistant.

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Thijs Mostert

Thijs [Tice] Mostert completed his Masters in Design at the University of Plymouth in 2021. Thijs has come from a healthcare background, working in secondary and primary care settings across the South West for over 10 years. He has special interest sustainability and the circular

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Mark Osborne

hi I’m Mark Osborne, doing a practice based phd here at sunny Plymouth, with the practice part involving ‘audio reactive error diffusion dither’ based cybernetic systems. All being well this to help create some kind of insight into a ‘creatively centred’ understanding of computational media.

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Frank Jiang

Haoyun (Frank) Jiang is a PhD researcher in i-DAT on the CODEX International Postgraduate Research Network. His research focuses on improving the skills of Marine Carbon Neutrality by using Product Design methods. The ocean is an important carbon pool for absorbing atmospheric carbon dioxide. Over the past

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Andrew Denham

Practice-based PhD research studies at i-DAT: PhD title: Mapping the aestheticisation of digital reading practices My research interests lie within the below field/s: [1] Design thinking: an ontology in digital / web aesthetics [paradigm, form, function] [2] Pedagogic research: an epistemology of digital reading practices

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Kyra Boyle

Kyra is a researcher at i-DAT and an Associate Lecturer with the Digital Media Design programme at the University of Plymouth. Kyra also works with the NHS Torbay as a Digital Futures Healthcare Fellow, where she makes VR projects within Unity, looking at the histories

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Dr Lauren Hayhurst

Dr Lauren Hayhurst is a Lecturer in Games Design at i-DAT and Head of Narrative Design at Hi9, Natural Language AI Agency. After achieving a PhD in Creative Writing in 2017, for which she explored the ethical implications of fiction writing, she lectured at Exeter,

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Femke Snelting

Femke Snelting develops projects at the intersection of design, feminisms, and free software in various constellations. With Seda Guerses, Miriyam Aouragh, and Helen Pritchard, she runs the Institute for Technology in the Public Interest. Together they create spaces for articulating what computational technologies in the

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Rafael Arrivabene

Dr Rafael Arrivabene is the Program Leader for the MA Game Design and Lecturer in Games and Experience Design at i-DAT. He has been professionally involved in the games industry since 2010. Working as Creative Manager at MStech, he has conducted the production of award-winning

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