Dr Duckworth is an Associate Professor in Digital Design and director of CiART (Creative interventions, Art and Rehabilitative Technology), School of Design at RMIT, and artist in the audio-visual Duckworth Hullick Duo. Dr Duckworth has established a strong reputation for his interdisciplinary practice-based design research that forges synergies between media art, health science, disability and game technology. His work has yielded significant innovations within acquired brain injury rehabilitation, the arts and technology field, and been recognised for design innovation as a recipient of the Victorian Premier’s Design Award and Good Design Award in Digital Design. Duckworth has exhibited at numerous major national and international venues for creative work including Craft ACT, Canberra; Melbourne Festival, and Sónar+D, Barcelona.

Shigenori Mochizuki is a Professor at Ritsumeikan University researching interactive digital media arts technologies.

Nathan Sibthorpe is a contemporary performance-maker and video designer based in Brisbane, Australia. He is best known as the director of Counterpilot – the award-winning collective of transmedia performance artists responsible for: Adrift (Met-ro Arts, 2022); Truthmachine (Sydney Festival, Brisbane Festival & others, 2019-22); Crunch Time (Next Wave Festi-val & Metro Arts, 2018) and Spectate (Metro Arts, 2017). Nathan has three Matilda Awards including the Lord Mayor’s Award for Best New Australian Work (2018), the award for Best AV Design (2018), and the Judge’s Award for “pushing artistic boundaries” (2022). Nathan was also the recipient of the Dr Don Batchelor Award for Drama Research at QUT (2017) and a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Produc-tion for Young People, with I’ve Been Meaning to Ask You (2022). Nathan was previously Queensland Theatre Company’s Geek-In-Residence in 2012-14. He sometimes teaches perfor-mance studies at QUT, where he holds a Masters Degree in contemporary performance. Counterpilot is an award-winning collective of interdisciplinary artists based in Brisbane, Australia. Together, we create interactive performance works - activating audiences with new technology, rich design, and transmedia storytelling. Counter-pilot seeks to transform the familiar, juxtaposing rich fictional worlds against a backdrop of the everyday. By subverting real social circumstances, we co-opt our participants as authentic performers. In this way we are har-nessing what we believe to be the most exciting thing about theatre - the live audience. Our works enable participants to observe themselves responding in real ways to hyper-real situations. We seek to provoke change through acts of trouble, mischief and low-key chaos. We play in the space between people, and we poke at the tensions that bind us. Counterpilot is directed by Nathan Sibthorpe, with Core Creatives Christine Felmingham & Mike Willmett. Since 2022, we have been the Company-in-Residence at Metro Arts.

Professor John McGhee is a research-intensive academic at UNSW and Director of the 3DXLab in the Faculty of Arts Design and Architecture. His academic research work explores arts-led modes of visualising complex scientific data. His research investigates the application of creative practice, technical innovation, and immersive platforms to new visualisation challenges. Areas of research area excellence include Virtual Reality (VR), 3D computer animation, 3D reality capture, 3D virtual world design, 3D biomedical visualisation, VFX, immersive design and reflective practice. This research capacity has developed through the Australian Research Council (ARC) and industry-led external contract funding awards. Collaborative research partners also include Transport for NSW, Syngenta Global, St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, the Australian Museum and Melbourne Science Galleries.

Benjamin J Bailey is a 3D artist and designer specialising in immersive virtual reality placemaking. A 3D environment artist by training, Benjamin has worked across projects in industry, academia and the creative arts. Currently undertaking a PhD research project Ways of making 'Unreality': A practice-based exploration of the Tacit dimension when constructing virtual reality places, his research explores the relationship between the processes and outputs of virtual content production, combining methods adopted from cutting edge industry practice with the unique visual and emotional aesthetic of the Australian landscape which is often neglected in the discourse of mainstream real-time 3D CGI.

Sarah Eddowes is an inter-disciplinary artist and current PhD candidate at UNSW Sydney. She has completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (painting - UNSW), a Masters of Animation (UTS) and a Master of Fine Arts by research (National Art School). Her current practice-based PhD research explores how a non-linear workflow between digital and physical artmaking tools can explore the experience of tactility. Her experimental practice moves between computer generated imagery, 3D printing and the physical manipulation of materials such as clay, silicone, wax, paint and gel.

Andrew Yip is a new media artist, immersive designer and art historian whose work explores humancentered approaches to the design of virtual heritage systems. He works closely with museums in the fields of digital conservation reconstruction and site simulation and designs interactive installations for exhibitions. His work has been exhibited at major galleries including the Art Gallery of NSW, Powerhouse Museum, Heide Museum of Modern art and the South Australian Maritime Museum. Andrew’s practice is based at the UNSW Sydney, where he is currently Senior Lecturer, Immersive Design, and a research fellow at the iCinema Centre for Immersive Cinema research, 3DXLab and the Autonomous Media Lab.