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Jane Grant
School of Art, Design and Architecture, Plymouth University, UK

Jane Grant is an artist and writer. Her work explores ideas in art and science, specifically astrophysics, neuroscience and the history of scientific ideas. Her sonic artwork Ghost was premiered at ISEA Istanbul. Jane sometimes works collaboratively creating award winning works such as The Fragmented Orchestra, a vast sonic artwork based on neuronal firing patterns in the brain, which won the PRSF Award for New Music and an Honorary Mention at PrixArs and Plasticity. She recently created Fathom, a huge artwork that sonically immersed participants in an underwater sound environment by creating a sonic surface 6ft above the floor.

Joanne “Bob” Whalley
ORCID iD School of Humanities and Performing Arts, Plymouth University, UK

Whalley is Lecturer in Theatre & Performance at Plymouth University, UK and has a private practice as a TCM and Five Element acupuncturist. Her key interests are 'patient practices' within a medical humanities context, and she teaches medical humanities to third and fourth year medical students. Other research interests include intersubjectivity and shared affect, collaborative strategies, site-specific performance, the radical domestic, traditional Chinese medicine, and animality and performance. Her research as a performance practitioner and scholar, is cleaved with Lee Miller with whom she undertook a joint practice as research PhD.