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Tony Plant is a Cornish born artist making large scale, temporary interventions in landscape alongside partnered paintings back in his Newquay studio.Ìý

Stuart McLean aka "Frenchbloke" runs the Dark Outside and Bibliotapes cassette labels as well as being responsible for The Dark Outside radio broadcasts in the Galloway Forest Dark Skies Park and at Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge for the London borough of Culture Celebrations in 2019. He's been making music and noises since his teens.ÌýHe was born in Glasgow, currently living on the edge of the Galloway Forest Dark Skies Park.Ìý

Sarah Wasserman is associate professor of English and associate director of the Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware. She is the author ofÌýÌýand co-editor ofÌý Cultures of ObsolescenceÌý(Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).. Her public writing has been featured inÌýPublic Books,ÌýLARB, andÌýFlauntÌýMagazine. She is currently at work on a book about digital intimacy in contemporary American fiction and a popular book about fantasies of computing from the 1980s.Ìý

Dr Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis and Dr Geoffrey Hobbis are anthropologists who have spent the last decade researching digital transformations in Solomon Islands. Stephanie, is an Assistant Professor with the Sociology of Development and Change Group, Wageningen University, and Geoffrey, an Assistant Professor with the Centre of Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen. They have co-authored articles on topics such as ‘An Ethnography of Deletion: Materializing Transience in Solomon Islands Digital Cultures’ and ‘Beyond Platform Capitalism: Critical Perspectives on Facebook Markets from Melanesia.'

is a Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield, in the School of East Asian Studies. She is a literary scholar both in Japanese and English literature and culture, including work on contemporary women’s writing, children’s literature and animation. You can see more on her work on the sense of impermanence and Japanese literature here in the .