Antonio Roberts is an artist, musician and curator based in Birmingham, UK. His practice is concerned with how the misuse of digital technology impacts people of colour and other marginalised groups. His recent work focuses on the depiction of Black people in digital media, ranging from stereotypical misrepresentations in early video games to modern algorithms and AI codifying existing biases. His (Algo|Afro) Futures mentoring programme for early career Black artists (2021 - 2025) teaches live coding software as a way to address how Black people have been under/misrepresented in digital art and electronic music, despite being pivotal to its development. His work has been featured at galleries and festivals including, Furtherfield (2013, 2019), Tate Britain (2014, 2015, 2020), Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago (2014), Birmingham Open Media (2015-2016), Jerwood Arts (2016), Whitney Museum of American Art (2017), Green Man Festival (2017), Barbican (2018), Victoria and Albert Museum (2019), Czurles Nelson Gallery (2019) New Art Exchange (2021), Tate Modern (2024), Vivid Projects (2024), and Festival Tormenta (2025). He has curated exhibitions and projects including GLI.TC/H Birmingham (2011), Bring Your Own Beamer (2012, 2013), Stealth (2015), No Copyright Infringement Intended (2017), Copy Paste (2020), and Rules of Engagement (2020). He was part of a-n's Artist Council, was an Artist Advisor for Jerwood Arts from 2019 - 2023 and from 2014 - 2019 he was Curator at Vivid Projects where he produced the Black Hole Club artist development programme.
 

Michael Lightborne is an artist, researcher, writer and music-maker based in Cork and Birmingham. His albums include Slí na Fírinne (The Department of Energy, 2022), RING ROAD RING (Gruenrekorder, 2020), and Sounds of the Projection Box (Gruenrekorder, 2018) and his sound work has been sound featured on BBC Radio 3’s ‘Late Junction’, BBC 6 Music, NTS, WFMU, ddr, RTE Lyric FM and Raidió na Gaeltachta, and Resonance FM. His moving image work has shown at Cork Film Festival, Flatpack Film Festival, Cinecity Melbourne, and Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival. He is the author of Wild Sound: Cinema and the Sonic Environment (Bloomsbury, 2026), and has published essays on sonic space, projection, and experimental film. Lightborne also hosts the Wild Freqs show on Cork’s éist radio. As Michael Pigott, he is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Warwick, where he teaches and writes on film, video art, and sound. He divides his time between North Cork and Birmingham.