(JPN)

Tomo Kihara is a creative developer from Japan who makes playful interventions at the intersection of games, technology and the urban space.

(UK)

Leeds based artist Samra Mayanja is primarily concerned with script writing.

(UK)

Lisa Watts is an artist based in Sheffield.

(UK)

Christiana is a trans-disciplinary researcher at i-DAT.

[CAN]

Don Hill is an interdisciplinary artist, broadcaster, and writer at the nodal points of digital media & cognitive neuroscience.

(UK)
 
Nosa Eke is a platform agnostic writer/director working in traditional and interactive storytelling.

(AUS)

Cat Jones is the 2019 recipient of our international residency program with pvi collective in partnership with the Australia Council.

(FR/AR)

Marina Wainer is a Paris-based Argentinian multidisciplinary artist.

(UK)

Rhiannon Armstrong is an interdisciplinary artist with a performance background making work under the lifelong series title Instructions for Empathetic Living.

(USA)

Dr Celia Pearce is an award-winning game designer, artist, curator, author, teacher, and serial instigator.

(AUS)

Blast Theory and pvi collective are excited to announce Robert Walton as the 2018 recipient of our international residency program.

(JPN)

anti-cool is an interdisciplinary artist from Japan, based in Liverpool, working in the field of performance art, installation and film.

(UK)

Katy Pendlebury is an artist who works with moving images and live performance.

(MEX)

Much of my creative work explores the sociogenetic and psychogenetic effects of technology in everyday life.

(UK)

Dan Shay is our first resident in collaboration with Brighton Digital Festival.

(UK)

Hwa Young Jung is a multidisciplinary artist working in the arts, culture and sciences, facilitating collaborative workshops and projects.

(USA)

William W Lewis is PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.

(AUS)

Anita Bacic’s practice focuses on explorations of media old and new, with a focus on interactive experiences.

(IDN)

I was born in Jakarta, Indonesia in the late 80’s.

(UK)

British-born Fee Plumley was previously best known for encouraging artists to be creative with the technology they carried in their pockets through the-phone-book Limited (2000-2008).

(UK)
Dance and interactivity are at the centre of my practice.

(UK)

Imwen is a freelance producer and events consultant.

(AUS)

Aleea Monsour is an independent artist and community theatre practitioner.

(AUS)

Caleb is a multi-award winning Australian playwright and theatremaker.

(PT)

Sofia Romualdo is a PhD researcher at the University of Exeter, investigating the use of videogames and gameful design in museums.

(UK)

Ting-Tong Chang’s satirical gaze leaves no aspect of society untouched.

(UK)

Alinah Azadeh is an artist using live encounter, textile and the digital to ask questions about our social and cultural identities.

(UK)

Jessica Harneyford’s writing explores the blurred boundaries between humans and machines.

(UK)

Rachel Henson makes work for a solo walker.

(UK)

Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris is a composer, performer and sound artist.

(CH)

I am a “listener”, taking time to talk with people, asking questions about their lives, listening to their answers and explanations.

(AUS)

Tamara is a Melbourne based artist who creates contemporary performance works for theatres and public spaces.

(USA)

Jessy Lauren Smith is a Chicago-based playwright, producer, and sound designer.

(UK)

I generally work in video, with an initial background in photography and an increasing focus on installation.

(UK)

Alex Bradley has been working as an independent artist for many years, practising across a range of disciplines, creating solo and collaborative works that push and blur the boundaries of live and digital art, sound and light.

(UK)
Sophie Dixon is a UK based artist who works with drawing, writing, audio and video to explore the constant process of constructing and reconstructing memory to formulate meaning.

(UK)

The Larks (formerly Larkin’ About) combine the spectacle of theatre with the agency of play.

(AUS)

A recent graduate, Nick Rebstadt works with the expanded practice of interior design.

(UK)

Paschale Straiton is a performer, director and co-director of Red Herring Productions, an outdoor theatre company based in Brighton.

(UK)

Joe Ryan is a game designer based in Bristol, UK.

(UK)

Sheila Ghelani is a serial resident artist at 20 Wellington Road, she is also a Blast Theory Associate Artist.

(UK)

Abigail Sidebotham (born 1985, Wales) is a multi media artist living in Brighton and Cardiff.

(UK)

Becky Edmunds is a dancer, choreographer and film maker as well as being an Associate Artist of Blast Theory.

(UK)

Adrian Hazzard, a PhD student from the University of Nottingham, will be investigating software and mobile technologies for data-mining and profiling in advance of this February’s Act Otherwise conference.

(USA)

Heather Kelley is a media artist, curator, and game designer based in Vienna, Austria.

(UK)

Root Experience are an interactive theatre company who will be bringing explorations of their Game Project to Wellington Road in September.

(USA)

Ben Moren is a Minneapolis based media artist working at the intersection of filmmaking, performance, and software / hardware development.

(UK)

Lucy Frears – loc0motion – is a practice-based PhD research student based in the Academy of Innovation & Research (AIR) at Falmouth University and runs two networks for those making or interested in locative & interactive work.

(UK)

Anagram are documentary filmmakers Amy Rose and May Abdalla.

(CAN / USA / UK)

Thierry Giles, Katharine Willis & Mike Marianek collaborate under the name Trolley Interactive and will be in residence at 20 Wellington Road in March where they will be organising a series of workshops and showings for their work, Speak To Me.

(UK)

Chroma Collective is a hybrid media art collective combining moving image, performance & technological experimentation.

(NZ)

Sarah Burrell and Andrew Simpson have been collaborating under the name LudiCity since early 2010.

(IRE)

Hilary O’Shaughnessy is an Irish performer, theatre-maker and game artist.

(AUS)

Francesca da Rimini has a long history of artistic experimentation with technologies which are for a time ‘new’ whether it was with the cyberfeminist collective VNS Matrix (1990-1991), as the MOO persona GashGirl at LambdaMOO, through her web hauntings as the ghost doll yoko at dollspace, or as a guest artist on Graham Harwood’s Netmonster.

(USA)

Tyler Stefanich is an Minnesota artist whos work draws on memory and unconscious habits of interpretation, using analog/digital-technologies to dislodge the viewer’s sense of normalcy.

(GER)

Arjan Dhupia is a PhD Fellow of Experimental Game Design and Development at Portsmouth University, where he develops a critical vocabulary for designing and analyzing locative narratives in location-based games.

(UK)

Leeds based Interactive arts trio Invisible Flock are developing their latest project Sea of Voices as part of their Residency at Blast Theory.

(UK)

Member of Invisible Flock Ben Eaton, undertook a residency at 20 Wellington Road in 2010.

(UK)

Sugar Beast Circus are a collective of artists, performers and designers with a shared vision to create work that broadens the scope of interdisciplinary work and to break down the barrier between theatre, gallery and big-top.

(UK)

Dan Dixon is a Senior Lecturer at the University of West of England, currently working on a PhD titled Playing with Reality: An Aesthetic Framework for Understanding Pervasive Games.

(AUS)

Sarah Waterson is an Australian artist who has worked in new media for nearly 20 years.

(UK/Italy)

Tommaso Capuzzo is studying for a PhD in anthropology/performance art at Goldsmiths on pervasive games, as spaces of creativity and experimentation in social/cultural interaction.

(UK)

“Signal to Noise” is the moniker of Brighton based emerging artists Oliver Wilshen and Niall Quinn.

(AUS)

Sydney-based artist and producer Kate Richards is interested in creating affective, immersive spaces.

(FIN)

Cross-media artist and designer based in Helsinki, Finland.

(AUS)

Melbourne based Christian Thompson developed a new series of photographic works during his residency.

(USA)

Andrea Polli is from New Mexico, USA.

(PT)

Singapore based artist Teresa Almeida continued development on her latest project ‘Roam’, firstly developed at the Banff New Media Institute in 2009.

(AUS)

Diego Bonetto is a multimedia artist living and practicing in Sydney and is a key member of artists’ collectives SquatSpace, the Network of UnCollectable Artists (NUCA) and the BigFAGPress.

(UK)

Laura-Kate Jennings is an artist and researcher based in London.

(UK)

Natasha’s solo practice is interdisciplinary, process-led and based around rigorous investigation through research & interpretation of personal histories that tap into universal values & issues.

(CH)

Monika Codourey is a Zurich based architect who thinks beyond designing spatial forms and explores how digital media can contribute to shaping social processes in urban environment.

(UK)

Lewes based Joseph Young developed a new work at Blast Theory inspired by the Milan Futurists and the poetics of the Dada movement.

(UK)

Ben works with computers, video, and performance to make interactive work and experiences.

(UK)

Sheila is a London based interdisciplinary artist who makes performance, film and Live Art work.

(SB)

Bogdan Spanjevic and Mirko Stojkovic from ApsArt, The Center for Theater Research in Belgrade developed a new pervasive game and developed new networks in the UK.

(UK)

David Fryer studied Textiles at Goldsmiths and Design at the Royal College of Art and now creates time-based and permanent public art works, gallery exhibitions and group exhibitions.

(UK)

Andy Field makes strange encounters for unusual places.

(AUS)

Leon Cmielewski and Josephine Starrs are artists whose long term collaboration has produced a variety of screen-based installations.

(UK/SP)

Me and The Machine is Sam Pearson (UK) and Clara García Fraile (Spain).