Hazel Smith is a poet, performer and new media artist. She was a Research Professor from 2007 to 2017 at Western Sydney University, where she is now an Emeritus Professor. She is author of several academic and pedagogical texts including most recently The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship: intermedia, voice, technology, cross-cultural exchange, Routledge, 2016. She has published four volumes of poetry including The Erotics of Geography: poetry, performance texts, new media works, Tinfish Press, Kaneohe, Hawaii, 2008, with accompanying CD Rom, and Word Migrants, Giramondo, 2016. She has also published three CDs of poetry and performance work and numerous collaborative multimedia works. She is a member of austraLYSIS, the sound and intermedia arts group, and has performed, broadcast and presented her work extensively internationally. In 2018, her multimedia collaboration with Will Luers and Roger Dean, novelling, was awarded 1st Place in the Electronic Literature Organisation’s Robert Coover Award.

Wojciech Drąg is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Wrocław. He is the author of Revisiting Loss: Memory, Trauma and Nostalgia in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro (2014) and Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English: Art of Crisis (2020). He is also co-editor of War and Words: Representations of Military Conflict in Literature and the Media (2015), Spectrum of Emotions: From Love to Grief (2016), and The Poetics of Fragmentation in Contemporary British and American Fiction (2019). In 2018, he received The Kosciuszko Foundation fellowship at the University of Utah.

Dr Pedro Nilsson-Fernàndez lectures at the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University College Cork, where he also collaborates with the Department of Digital Arts and Humanities. He holds a PhD in Catalan Studies and Digital Humanities and the presidency of the Associació d’Humanitats Digitals Catalanes (AHDCat). As a researcher, he looks at literary spaces in the context of Iberian minoritised languages and cultures, particularly through the use of text-mining and GIS to map post-war Catalan literary and cultural heritage. He is also interested in computer-assisted text analysis and the use of digital technologies to enhance learning and teaching. More info at pedronilsson.org.

Tina Escaja (Alm@ Pérez) is a destructivist/a cyber-poet@, digital artist and scholar based in Burlington, Vermont (USA). As a literary critic, she has published extensively on gender and contemporary Latin American and Spanish poetry and technology. Her creative work transcends the traditional book format, leaping into digital art, robotics, augmented reality and multimedia projects exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. Escaja has received numerous recognitions and awards, and her work has been translated into six languages. She is the instigator of the Destructivist/a movement, initiated on the grave of Vicente Huidobro in October of 2014. Her digital artifacts include the series VeloCity (2000-2002), Código de barras (2007), Emblem/as (2017-2019), Negro _en ovejas (2008/2011), LED/QR Poetry (2015), the interactive novel Pinzas de metal (2003), and the poetic robots Robopoem@s (2015-2019). A selection of Escaja’s literary and digital projects can be experienced at tinaescaja.com

Tina Escaja (Alm@ Pérez) es una ciber/poet@ destructivista, artista digital y profesora universitaria que reside en Burlington, Vermont (EEUU). Como investigadora ha publicado extensamente sobre género y tecnología en la poesía española y latinoamericana contemporánea. Su trabajo creativo trasciende el formato en papel y ha sido expuesto en sus variantes multimedia, robótica y de realidad aumentada en museos y galerías internacionales. Escaja ha sido reconocida y galardonada con destacados premios, y su obra ha sido traducida a seis idiomas. Es la instigadora del movimiento Destructivist/a, iniciado sobre la tumba del Vicente Huidobro en octubre de 2014. Sus artefactos digitales incluyen las series VeloCity (2000-2002), Código de barras (2007), Emblem/as (2017-2019), Negro en ovejas (2008/2011), Poesía LED/QR (2015), la novela interactiva Pinzas de metal (2003), y los robots poéticos Robopoem@s (2015-2019). Parte de su material literario y digital puede experimentarse en su página tinaescaja.com

Karen Ann Donnachie is an electronic artist and Andy Simionato is a speculative designer. Together, Karen Ann and Andy work in the fields of experimental publishing and machinic writing. From the early 2000s, alongside their polivalent studio practice, they founded and curated the award winning experimental art periodical This is a Magazine (about nothing) and later the imprint Atomic Activity Books . Their work has been published internationally and exhibited in the Kunstverein Neuhausen (Germany), Fabbrica del Vapore (Italy), the CCEC (Argentina), PICA and John Curtin Gallery (Australia) and featured in publications such as Princeton Architectural Press’ Come Together: The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design (2014). Most recently, their writing-robot The Trumpet of the Swan, was awarded the 2019 Tokyo Type Directors Club Prize. Karen Ann and Andy are based in Melbourne. Andy is a lecturer in design at RMIT University.

J. R. Carpenter is a writer and practice-led researcher working across print, performance, and digital media. She is A Fellow of the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library and the Moore Institute at NUI Galway. Her web-based works have been presented in museums, galleries, and festivals around the world. Her digital poem The Gathering Cloud won the New Media Writing Prize 2016. Her print poetry collection An Ocean of Static was highly commended by the Forward Prizes 2018. A new book based on her digital poem This is a Picture of Wind is forthcoming from Longbarrow Press in 2020. http://luckysoap.com