Lok Pui Lo is a multidisciplinary artist, facilitator, and producer working across film, performance, music, and participatory experiences. She is the co-director of ESEA Creatives and also works with Be United, supporting organisations that amplify the voices of people of colour and encourage intercultural dialogue.

Lok's interest in detective narratives, mystery games, and reality shows inspires her to create an immersive experience, The Only Witness, in which players enter a fictional tech company to investigate the death of an AI researcher. As players piece together tangible evidence and question an AI witness, they begin to realise that the system itself may be reshaping the truth.

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Martin Joseph O'Neill is a multi-disciplinary artist, cultural strategist and creative producer working across socially engaged and community-embedded practice. He is also Artistic Director of The Stove Network in Dumfries, an award-winning, nationally recognised arts and community organisation working across Dumfries & Galloway. His artistic work spans film, sound, light, text, creative technology and immersive experiences.

'Nightbox' is an immersive, site-responsive audio experience that explores memory, place and what is lost when the spaces that shape us disappear. The work builds on Phanto Spectra - a previous Immersive Arts 'Experiment' project, which brought back to life the ghost illusion shows of Scotland's travelling Showpeople through site-specific sound and sensory storytelling.

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Lauren Hall is a multidisciplinary artist, academic and advocate whose work sits at the intersection of performance, social justice and disability arts. Drawing from applied theatre, devised performance and dramaturgy, their practice is rooted in co-creation and inclusive methods, working with communities to centre lived experience and reimagine who performance is for.

'Afterlight' will be an immersive educational experience for secondary school students, designed to open meaningful conversations about grief and loss. Through interactive gameplay, it will explore the emotional cycles of grief in a safe, creative space, helping young people build emotional literacy and resilience.

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Cécile seeks to curate meaningful opportunities for artists and designers to engage with share & repair initiatives across Scotland. She has been a community leader in this movement, holding key development roles at the Edinburgh Tool Library for the past 9 years. She also uses her business degree and designer mindset to support artists and creative studios development. Brendan is a designer and entrepreneur. He's the founder and creative director of the specialist design studio Ray Interactive and co-director of Lavatown Studios, a shared creative-tech hub based in Granton. His creative practice overlaps design, motion graphics, creative data visualisation, UX/UI and interactive and immersive art.

Cécile and Brendan are planning to retrofit classic overhead projectors for outdoor projection-mapping use. This environmentally conscious project seeks to amplify and further develop the open source innovative tool called the 'Visiophare', which explores how projection mapping spectacles could be more accessible, affordable and more fun. The near-term goal is to build a set of these projectors for creative practitioners and community groups in Scotland to experiment with.