Mel Huang Buntine is a designer and technologist for the cultural and education sectors collaborating with institutions and festivals such as National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), 4A, Powerhouse, Asia TOPA, Art Gallery NSW, Science Gallery, Dark Mofo, Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), RISING and The Australian Ballet. She is currently the Radical Computing guest curator at National Communication Museum (NCM) and Senior Product Designer at Rome2Rio.

Spanning works across data visualisation, interactive design and live performance, Mel is passionate about the creative applications of technology in the arts and an advocate for multidisciplinary education having taught at The University of Melbourne and RMIT. She is the co-director of Creative Technology Melbourne and proud board member of Chamber Made. She co-founded the Buntine Computer Collection with her partner Andy Buntine in 2016.

Panda Wong is a poet/editor living on unceded Bunurong land. She is one-half of the music/poetry project lotus threads, as well as its expanded project lotus web. She works across sound, performance and digital spaces to expand on what poetry can be/feel like.

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cTrix is a musician, Youtuber, and retro-technologist with over 3 decades of composition for over 25 retro 8-bit and 16-bit systems. He's toured globally playing music and participating in demoscene events. Back in AU, he's co-founder of Syntax Demoparty, a retro programming, pixel art and chipmusic event based here in Melbourne.

Daisy is a weaver and a coder, seeing both as expressions of the same practice. After a decade as a studio weaver, freelance textile designer, and educator, she watched the struggling textile industry vanish under the pressures of 2020. Her expansion into software engineering prompted by necessity, became a strategic experiment: a way to anchor her practice while investigating the deep knowledge transfer between craft and code. By navigating complex digital systems without a formal computer science degree, she proves that the devalued hand-skills of the past are the actual foundation of modern engineering. For Daisy, bridging these worlds ensures that craft logic doesn't become a silent artifact.