Claudia Moseley (b. 1984) MRSS Fine Art and Textiles (Goldsmiths University) MA Environmental Anthropology (Kent University) Foundation diploma Art & Design (Middlesex University).

Claudia Moseley’s practice emerges from a long-standing enquiry into the nature of the lens as both a perceptual device and a psychological interface. With a family heritage in film and photography, she developed an early, intimate awareness of reality as a constructed image: a world observed from an attentive distance, where the apparatus was always visible. This insight crystallised in the photographic darkroom, where she began deconstructing the camera to dimensionalise light, lens and projection into embodied spatial experience.

Following formal training in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, Moseley pursued Environmental Anthropology to deepen her material investigations into the entanglement of ecology, embodiment, and vision. This enquiry has evolved through the lens of parenthood, drawing on psychoanalytic perspectives to examine the crisis of attention and identity precipitated by screen-based media. She traces a line from the alienation of the cinematic apparatus to the isolating effects of phone culture, reconfiguring the lens as a dominant psychic object for our age: a seductive frame that promises connection, yet operates by structuring and perpetuating a fundamental sense of distance.

Edward Shuster (b. 1986) PhD FRSA MRSS ‘The Pharmakology of Light-Time’ (PhD, European Graduate School), Optics, Geometry and Architecture (Farjam Scholarship, Prince's School), Eastern and Western Esoteric Philosophies (SOAS; Exeter University)

Edward Shuster’s work traces a continuum from Eastern and Western esoteric traditions to contemporary technologies of perception. His early research explored graphic forms as psycho-diagrammatic methods within early modern cosmological traditions. This foundational interest in how symbolic systems mediate reality led to an investigation of the ontology of light through applied disciplines. His research in cosmotechnics incorporates a media archaeology that has been deepened through ongoing scientific dialogue, including collaborations with the Institute for Computational Cosmology, neuroscientists, and optical imaging specialists. 

In exploring the architectures of consciousness—informed by sustained phenomenological practice—Shuster has explored how the digital interface compresses perception into states of hypermediacy. In his doctoral thesis he analyzed how the “light-time” of instantaneous information induces a crisis of attention and perceptual disorientation, proposing a radical suspension of the logic of interface. As philosophical advisor to Dust Identity, Shuster works at the intersection of AI, cryptographic architectures, and symbolic infrastructure—developing systems that aim to interrogate symbolic ecology under conditions of digital dissociation.