Cybernetics & Ghosts: Living, Thinking and Writing With Technology

Michael Salu is a British-born Nigerian writer, artist, editor and curator. A creative strategist with a strongly interdisciplinary practice, he has produced creative and critical work on technological and geopolitical changes in society and culture. Red Earth, his first book, is forthcoming from Calamari Archive in 2023.

Sara Saab was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and now lives in north London. Her fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Shimmer, The White Review, and elsewhere.

Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British author whose work combines the surreal and the mundane to create vivid narratives that play with form and language. Her short stories have been published internationally. Her writing has been featured in the New York Times, The Observer, The Guardian, the BBC and the Huffington Post. Her debut novel, Butterfly Fish and short story collection Speak Gigantular have won and been shortlisted for multiple awards. Her new collection, Nudibranch is published by Dialogue Books. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Iphgenia Baal is the author of multiple fiction titles including: Compliances w/Ben Graville (Tooth grinder, 2022) and Man Hating Psycho (Influx Press, 2021). She has contributed to a wide range of countercultural titles including Nervemeter, Schizm, International Times and The White Review. She is also co-founder of the annual short film festival Santa Cruz Short.