Patrick Brodie
Patrick Brodie is an Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow in the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin. His research focuses on the environmental politics of digital technologies and infrastructures. He is the author or editor of three forthcoming books, including From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland (with Patrick Bresnihan, Bristol University Press, 2025).
https://people.ucd.ie/patrick.brodie
Robert Collins
Robert Collins is an Irish artist, designer and creative technician based in Sweden, and is currently working as a PhD researcher in Contestable Design at the Umeå Institute of Design.
His work explores the inherent noise and saturation of information in contemporary society, through speculative objects and software. He holds an MSc in Interactive Media, where he explored the creation of spaces for adversarial discussion and common ground.
He also facilitates artworks for new-media artists and produced ArtScience exhibitions across the world on behalf of Science Gallery International and others.
His work has appeared at Ars Electronica, Science Gallery, Nieuwe Instituut and in Neural Magazine.
Shane Finan & Loes Damhof
Shane Finan assembles artworks from interactive contemporary technologies, found objects, and traditional artistic media. His work is research based and explores the tension between the individual and the social in a more-than-human networked society. He believes that by challenging assumptions about technology through learning from nonhuman colleagues, it is possible to imagine and present alternate futures. To this end, he always collaborates, most recently working with and learning
from artists, crustose lichen, environmental scientists, aiteann, beetles and fungi.
https://shanefinan.org
Loes Damhof is an award-winning educator and is internationally acclaimed for her work in the development of Futures Literacy Laboratories and training programs around the globe. She serves as the UNESCO Chair on Futures Literacy at Hanze University. She also is a Future Fellow at Hawkwood College and a TEDxspeaker. As a consultant, trainer and facilitator, Loes continues to bring this capability to where it isneeded most by exploring the connections between futures literacy, nature and the public space.
Seán Finnan
Seán Finnan is a PhD candidate in the TU Dublin School of Media. His research focuses on independent DIY internet radio stations and is interested in their facilitation of cultural exchange, the online listening environments they create and the wider ecologies of artistic and media practices they engender. His work interrogates the possibilities of DIY internet radio and the possibilities latent within them as sites of collaborative media making. His research interests includes alternative and community media, DIY music culture, critical net cultures, and radio.
Seán is one of the founders of Dublin Digital Radio, a community internet radio station established in Dublin in 2016. He has worked as a curator/producer on numerous shows including the electronic music festival Alternating Current and ddr.’s An Avant Garde Public Service Broadcaster, a speculative symposium that sought to reimagine public service broadcasting for the digital age through workshops and panel discussions.
Richard Forrest
Richard Forrest is an artist and arts facilitator working in sculpture and new media, with a focus on sustainability. As the founder of Redbarn Residency, he brings together art, local communities, rural ecosystems, and sustainable practices to generate new knowledge at their intersection. His research is influenced by science and critical theory, reflected in works like A Negative Infinity (MART Gallery, 2019), which explored Marxist geographer David Harvey’s theories through sculptural installations.
Based in Cork, Forrest holds an MFA in ArtScience from the Royal Academy of Art, The Netherlands (2019). Recent achievements include Distinct (Project Arts Centre, 2024), an Arts Council of Ireland Bursary Award (2021), an Agility Award (2021), and Unexpected Smells (Fabriek, The Hague, 2019). His work has been exhibited internationally, including Re:In Force (MART, Los Angeles, 2017) and FUTURES (Royal Hibernian Academy, 2017).
https://oghyll.com/redbarn-residency
Cliona Harmey
Cliona Harmey is an artist and educator who works primarily with media technologies. She is currently a lecturer in the Media Department at NCAD where she runs a module called “Critical Making” which focuses on a material led exploration of media practice and which encompasses elements of small scale material making, code, as well as working with re-usable/ re-configurable open source hardware. She works at a variety of scales and often makes work which is ephemeral or systems based. Her most recent work responds to contexts and situations where the global and local systems intersect (climate, borders, transit, maps).
Micheál O’Connell
Finding the absurd in everyday sometimes dysfunctional technologies and systems and messing around with them are key activities. There is a performative aspect to the interventions. Afterwards I exhibit photographic and video material, digital or physical readymades. Past work was presented in established locations (e.g. Matt’s Gallery and the Whitechapel, London and Crawford/CiT Wandesford Quay in Cork); an early series Contra-Invention had been part of Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles; and I often work with artist-run, project and off-site spaces, as well as sharing materials online.
An Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon Commissions Award facilitated the production of new work for a solo exhibition, System Interference, at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre in 2022, which then travelled to Wexford Arts Centre, and finally to Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda completing in February 2024. The tour, initiated by Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre was supported by an Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon Touring Award. Philosopher of aesthetics John Roberts, recently wrote a book which riffs off the work: Art, Misuse and Technology: Micheál O’Connell’s ‘System Interference’ published by Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre in 2022.
Paul O’Neill
Paul O’ Neill is an artist and assistant professor at the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, University of Galway. His practice and research is concerned with our collective dependency on networked technologies and infrastructures. His research has been featured in publications from the Institute of Network Cultures and ANNEX – Ireland’s representative at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale. He has also exhibited and presented his work at galleries and institutions nationally and internationally, including the Glucksman (Ireland), Ars Electronica (Austria), NeMe (Cyprus), Onassis Stegi (Greece) and SAW (Canada) and he has undertaken residencies at the Media Archaeology Lab (University of Colorado Boulder) and as part of the European Media Art Platform (EMAP) Programme.
Paul previously worked as a researcher with Science Gallery Dublin and is currently an academic collaborator with the ADAPT Centre for AI-Driven Media Technologies, University College Dublin. He is also co-curator of the Dublin Art & Technology Association (D.A.T.A) and the English language editor of Neural Magazine of Critical Digital Culture & Media Arts.
www.aswemaysink.com
Aisling Phelan
Aisling Phelan is an Irish multidisciplinary artist working across 3D animation, AI, video, sculpture, and live interactive technologies. Her work explores what it means to be human in an era of rapid technological advancement and pervasive algorithmic influence.
Deeply concerned with the body, particularly the face, she uses digital doubles to question the abstraction, fragmentation, and fluidity of identity in virtual spaces. Her installations often invite viewers to directly interact with her virtual self, implicating them in the dynamics of surveillance, reproduction, and control that underpin digital culture.
https://aislingphelan.cargo.site