Jamie Sutcliffe is a writer, curator, and co-director of Strange Attractor Press. His work explores artistic encounters with science fictive fabulation, the politics of gaming, animation and its multiple entanglements with developments in the life sciences, haunted media, the digital uncanny, and the persistence of myth, all understood as technologies of selfhood. He is the editor of Documents of Contemporary Art: Magic, published by The Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press, and his essays, reviews, and interviews have been featured in Art Monthly, Frieze, The White Review, Rhizome, Art Review, The Quietus, Art Agenda, Bricks From The Kiln, and IsThisIt, amongst others.

@intron_depot

David Blandy (1976, UK, Lives & works in Brighton) makes work that slips between performance and video, digital and analogue, investigating the stories and cultural forces that inform and influence our lives. Collaboration is central to his practice, examining communal and personal heritage and interdependence. With research spanning multiple forms of archive, from fandoms to the archive of the body, historic texts to academic libraries, archaeology and ecological theory, twitch streams and film archives, Blandy weaves poetic works that explore the complexities of the contemporary subject.

@david_blandy_

Simon O’Sullivan is a theorist and artist working at the intersection of contemporary art practice, performance and continental philosophy. His most recent publication is, Fictioning: The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), co-written with David Burrows.His collaborative art practice Plastique Fantastique– with David Burrows, Alex Marzeta and Vanessa Page is a ‘performance fiction’ that involves an investigation into aesthetics, subjectivity, the sacred, popular culture and politics produced through, performance, film and sound work, comics, text, installations and assemblages. Plastique Fantastique are represented by IMT Gallery in London.

@foxowl2

Holly White works across mediums including video, performance, cast bronze, glazed ceramics, weaving, knitting, sculpture and installation and role play games. Leaving Biosphere 2 is a computer game and publication by Holly White, exploring community, growing vegetables and utopias.

@hollywhite4eva

Zedeck Siew is a writer based in Port Dickson, Malaysia. He is a journalist, essayist, editor, and game designer. He writes short fiction in English and translates from Malay. He is known for his collection, A THOUSAND THOUSAND ISLANDS, a Southeast Asian-themed fantasy visual world-building project. A series of zines, designed for use in fantasy adventure tabletop RPGs. Ongoing since 2017, this project draws from the overlapping material cultures, lived stories, and mythistories of that region of the world variously called Indochina, Suvarnabhumi, and the Nusantara — Southeast Asia.

Tim Linward, born under a dying star, channels his terror at late capitalist ecocide into a pathological lust for toy soldiers. He lives with his broodmate, broodling, vertebrate and invertebrate pets near Loncastre in Britain, where he types relentlessly. He is a staff writer for Wargamer and the author of Grimdark: A Very British Hell, forthcoming from Strange Attractor Press.

Kayla Dice is a TTRPG creator, dormant comedian, retired wrestler, begrudging podcaster and unleashed oddball living in London. She releases games as Rat Wave Game House, often focusing on themes of alienation and connection, and she was recently named a winner of the Diana Jones Emerging Designer program. She is the creator of Terminal, Transgender Deathmatch Legend, and Fear the Taste of Blood.

Chris McDowall is a game designer based in Manchester, creator of the Into the Odd and Electric Bastionland RPGs. He also writes at bastionland.com and produces regular video and podcast content around game design. His games aim to combine minimalist rules with an evocative sense of flavour to create exciting, memorable moments at the table.

Stu Horvath is a writer from New Jersey. He is the founder of Unwinnable, an outlet for independent cultural criticism. He also manages the VintageRPG account on Instagram and cohosts the Vintage RPG Podcast.

Mike Mason is an award-winning game designer and writer, and the creative director for the Call of Cthulhu tabletop roleplaying game. As well as being the commissioning editor and lead writer for the line, Mike also works closely with artists and cartographers to shape the look and art for Call of Cthulhu.

Emmy Allan is an Ennie award winning British game designer of The Stygian Library and The Gardens of Ynn, a point-crawl adventure set in an ever-shifting extradimensional garden. Each expedition generates its route as it explores, resulting in new vistas being unlocked with every visit.

Samuel Clarice Mui Shen Ern is a play designer and tech artist from Malaysia who create multimodal games and interactive installations about everyday moments and extraordinary worlds. Their work Horse Girl is a body horror, solo tabletop RPG journaling game, based on The Wretched by Chris Bissette, where you tell the story of a woman who consents to be mentally and surgically transformed into a horse.

Mark Pilkington is a writer, musician, and the founder of Strange Attractor Press. His writing has been published in numerous magazines, anthologies and exhibition catalogues, music and film liner notes including The Guardian, The Anomalist, Fortean Times, Frieze, Sight & Sound, and The Wire. He is the author of Mirage Men: A Journey into Disinformation, Paranoia and UFOs (2010).

Holly White (they/she) is an artist, therapist and veg grower based in Glasgow. Solo exhibitions include Well Projects, Margate; Cordova, Barcelona; Almanac, Turin; and Jupiter Woods, London. Her work has been included in group presentations at Tate Britain, Bologna Museum of Modern Art, Serpentine Galleries and David Roberts Art Foundation. Holly also works with schools and community groups and has produced work with young people at Rumpus Room, Glasgow; Collective, Edinburgh; Hospitalfield House, Arbroath and Serpentine Galleries, London.

"I’m Uma, a disabled artist, writer, and award winning game designer interested in animals, horror, and queer feminist literature. Everything I make is about some combination of love, grief, hallucination, and an excess of joy. With Bella Paloma I make video games about the divine and occult providence of transfemme existence.

Recent projects include “The Speculative Dismemberment of Agent Leon Kennedy” for Market Gallery (Glasgow, 2022), “The Joy of Destruction” for Backlit (Nottingham, 2023), “Elan Vitale” for Container Magazine (Bristol, 2023) and my first solo exhibition “Earth A.D.” co-commissioned by and touring across Wysing Arts Centre (Cambridge, 2022), FACT (Liverpool, 2023), and Quad (Derby, 2024)."

Kitty Clark is an artist primarily working in sculpture and digital media. Her works often utilise atypical narrative structures to explore speculative, and frequently dystopian, futures. Themes of escapism and desire, fantasy and the esoteric are drawn upon, portrayed with an aesthetic of crooked-cartoonish minimalism. Frequently her works employ devices and structures found in gaming, from choose-your-own-adventure books to tabletop gaming and early computer text adventure games.

@kitty_clark_

Petra Szemán (they/them) is a moving image artist working with animation and game-like landscapes. Their practice focuses on the murky borderlands along the arbitrary line separating real and fictional, and the kind of lives and experiences that are possible there. Using a virtual version of themself as a protagonist journeying through animatic realms, they explore liminal spaces and threshold situations, looking to dissect the ways our memories and selves are constructed within a landscape oversaturated with fiction (both on- and off-screen). Turning away from thinking of cyberspace as a radically ’other’ realm, Petra hopes to walk the line situated between dystopian and utopian frameworks, eyes set on new queer horizons.

@petra.szeman

John Powell-Jones’ practice is informed by the ways in which dominant ideologies and power structures influence our perceptions of reality. In particular, how the warped western view of progress and success affects our understanding of morality. These ideas are explored through the use of speculative fiction, taking inspiration from European folklore, body horror, survival horror, fantasy and science fiction. Powell-Jones aims to form a dialogue with our present and an imagined dystopian future in which the horrors of capitalism and neoliberal ideology are present as cyborgs, demons and maggots.

@johnpowell_jones