Blue Grindrod

Blue Grindrod is a speculative designer, multimedia artist and researcher whose work deals primarily with the aesthetics of the future human body and human cultural practices. Rooted in queer theory, mythos and post- and trans-humanist philosophy, their design ethos is one of play, of craft,

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Dane Watkins

Dane Watkins 18/10/1965-07/05/2022. Dane was a Lecturer in Illustration: Interactive Narrative and had over a decade’s experience of a research based, context-responsive practice that examines how conventional drawing and animation practices can be developed and shown in digital environments such as the web, computer driven

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Melanie Morrell

Melanie Morrell has 20 years of experience within the creative sector of education, consisting of teaching, coordinated and running programmes with schools and FE/HE institutions. MM passion is Fine Art and she graduated with an MA in 2004. MM’s creative passion has given her the

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Annie Blanchette

Dr Annie Blanchette is a cultural researcher who works on identity, subjectivity, representation and embodied experience using ethnographic and participatory research methods. Whilst Annie’s past work dealt with the gendered body in consumer culture and ‘nostalgic’ contexts, she is increasingly interested in the embodied self

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Angelika Kolodziej

Angelika Kolodziej is a photographer, movie maker, mixed media practitioner and Plymouth University i-Dat student. Over the years, she participated as an artist in several exhibitions, gathered the experience as a curator, student representative, ambassador and Plymouth Art Weekender volunteer. Her photography practice concerns people,

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Xiaorong Jia

Xiaorong Jia a MRes Digital Arts and Technology student in i-DAT at the University of Plymouth. Through research into 3D animation and virtual interactive games she explores the complex connections and interactions between the city, digital technologies and the public, and how these influence the

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Nema Hart

Relationship Manager, Creative Media, Arts Council England South West Nema’s academic background and interests are in arts, science, and technology. She has a BSc (Hons) MediaLab Arts and an MSc in Digital Futures. In 2003 Nema joined Arts Council England (ACE) where she held the

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Andy Sargeant

Andy is an Associate Lecturer on the i-DAT Game Art and Design Programme. Andy’s creative practice experiments with games, live performance and the process of making within digital media to promote social mobility and inclusive practice. Andy is a member of Kaos Kollective – an

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Paola Menzardi

Paola Menzardi is a visiting Ph.D. researcher from Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, where she obtained the master’s degree in Systemic Design e the bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design.    She is carrying out a research at the Department of Architecture and Design in the field

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