Ralph Borland was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1974, and grew up both there and in Harare, Zimbabwe. He studied Sculpture and English at the University of Cape Town, and completed his Masters degree in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, in 2002.

He is pursuing his PhD with the Disruptive Design Team, an interventionist and cross-disciplinary research group within the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department at Trinity College, Dublin. He works at the intersection of art and design practice, technology research and development, and political activism. His work 'Suited for Subversion' is included in the permanent collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art.


Tim Redfern is a media Artist, film maker and educator based in Dublin. With a background in design, and an affinity for science, technology, computing, mathematics and all things technological, over the last 10 years Tim has programmed interactive experiences, hacked hardware, created 3D worlds and graphic projections for many theatrical and musical events. Tim's artistic practice embraces minimalist graphic art, computer programming and technological inventiveness.

He is also pursuing his PhD at Trinity College Dublin with the Distributed Systems Group of the Department of Computer Science, in audio applications of distributed, especially location-aware computing devices.