Richard Adams

A digital veteran, starting in the early 90’s as a computer artist, Richard has made numerous interactive things across all channels. He founded a Digital Arts Dept, held a Visiting Professorship and worked with Marc Lewis to open the School of Communication Arts. Creative Director, Product Development Head and more, at BBC, BSkyB, Aviva and Microsoft (Xbox). Currently at the RSC, he is also Senior Fellow at University of Lincoln.

Debbie Davies

Dd is an international exhibiting artist. She works in a variety of mediums from sculpture to installations, from soft-circuits to video and textiles. Many of her pieces are responsive, reacting and changing in response to participants’ engagement with a strong focus on working with light. Recently, she has developed an interest in data-visualization and is currently working on a body of work around knife and gun crime statistics to be exhibited in late 2017, working with a robotic arm and automated paintball guns. She collaborates with technicians from many disciplines, including architects, data-analysts, hardware and software engineers.

Upcoming exhibitions: Burningman 2016, USA. Reno Playa Art Park, Nevada, USA 2016/2017.

Sponsors: Trotec, Chauvet Lighting, Travis Perkins, Nanode Design and Technology.

Bhavani Esapathi

Bhavani has over 5 years experience working within the digital teams of cultural industries in the UK and beyond. She has spoken at The British Museum, The Somerset House & WIRED Magazine to name a few alongside working with institutions such as The British Council, The V&A and The Goethe Institut. Her most recent venture is The Invisible Labs; a social good startup focussing on health & well-being.

Fiddian Warman

Fiddian is the Director and one of the founders of Soda. A digital artist with a background in furniture design, Fiddian is a specialist in electronics, robotics, screen display technology and a whole host of other good geeky stuff. When he’s not busy developing new business for Soda or talking digital strategy, Fiddian spends an unhealthy amount of time with his Arduinos.

Rachel Ara

Conceptual and Data artist Rachel Ara graduated with a Fine Art BA from Goldsmiths College where she won the prestigious Burston award. In 2016 she won the International Aesthetica Art Prize for This Much I’m Worth [the self-evaluating artwork]. Pulling on her experiences as a computer system designer, the digital sculpture draws on data and complex algorithms to calculate its own value in real time. Her work is nonconformist with a socio-political edge that often incorporates humour and irony with feminist and queer concerns.

Shelley James

Shelley trained in textiles in Paris and printmaking at UWE in Bristol before working as a corporate design consultant. She holds PhD by practice in ceramics and glass from the Royal College of Art and has just completed City and Guilds certificates in electrical installations and on-site testing. Her research-led practice is inspired by ongoing collaborations with scientists from many different fields from psychology to physics.

Nick Rothwell

Nick Rothwell is a composer, performer, software architect, programmer and sound artist. He has built media performance systems for projects with Ballett Frankfurt and Vienna Volksoper (choreographer: Michael Klien) and Braunarts, and interactive installations for Sonic Arts Network, TECHNE (Istanbul) and the Kinetica kinetic art fair (London). He has worked at STEIM (Amsterdam), CAMAC (Paris) and ZKM (Karlsruhe) and has composed soundtracks for choreographers Aydin Teker (Istanbul) and Richard Siegal (Laban Centre), and performed with Laurie Booth (Dance Umbrella, New Territories), and at the Different Skies Festival (Arcosanti, Arizona), the ICA, and the Science Museum’s Dana Centre.

Joe McAlister

Joe is a London-based computational artist and privacy advocate. Typically focusing on 'metadata' and the surprising details it can often reveal about the user. His work uses a mixture of programming, AI, machine learning and traditional art mediums including sculpture to realise his ideas. Creating coherent pieces that seamlessly blend technology with fine art containing powerful messages for the viewer to discover. Wherever possible his work is open source and available on Github. He has received commissions and awards from established universities including Goldsmiths, University of London and Kings College, London. Worked alongside London art collective FanSHEN and consulted on a number of works including those commissioned by Saatchi & Saatchi.

Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm

Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm is a young artist employing new media technology e.g. artificial intelligence technology (AI) to create immersive artworks. Cecilie’s artworks have been exhibited internationally and are the cornerstone in her practice-based PhD at Royal College of Art in London. Cecilie has been awarded the TECHNE Award 2017 and The Lumen Prize 2017 in the category Artificial Intelligence Award for her ARTificial Intelligence FRANK.

A Teaser

TECHnique is a podcast where artists talk about how technology is affecting them and their practice. In this first episode, Sam Fry introduces this new podcast which begins with a 6 part series.

Interactive Plays

TECHnique is a podcast where artists talk about how technology is affecting them and their practice. Sam Fry interviews Seth Kriebel about his process of creating plays where the audience decide where to go to next.

Art Practice

TECHnique is a podcast where artists talk about how technology is affecting them and their practice. Richard F Adams interviews Fiddian Warman and Debbie Davies about how digital has changed the way that art is created and consumed.

Gaming

TECHnique is a podcast where artists talk about how technology is affecting them and their practice. Samuel Fry interviews Sumo Digital, Other Ocean and Upstream Arcade about the gaming industry.

Small Business

TECHnique is a podcast where artists talk about how technology is affecting them and their practice. Richard Adams interviews Andrew Roberts and Steve Taylor about how small businesses keep up with digital changes.

TwitterBots

TECHnique is a podcast where artists talk about how technology is affecting them and their practice. Samuel Fry speaks to his housemate, Tobias Phillips, after he has made a Twitterbot based on him.

Death of Painting

TECHnique is a podcast where artists talk about how technology is affecting them and their practice. Richard Adams speaks to Alison Jardine about whether we are experiencing the Death of Painting.

Future of Love

TECHnique is a podcast where artists talk about how technology is affecting them and their practice. Samuel Fry speaks to Ghislaine Boddington about using technology to create a sense of belonging and working with avatars in virtual worlds. Together they explore the topic of the Future of Love.

Sound Design

TECHnique is a podcast where artists talk about how technology is affecting them and their practice. Richard F Adams speaks to Paul Weir about sound design in video games, retail and theatre. Together they explore the history, present and future of audio.

Art and Dementia

TECHnique is a podcast where artists talk about how technology is affecting them and their practice. Samuel Fry speaks to Sonia Li about creating multi sensory artworks. In particular, they discuss Sonia's most recent art piece called "Movement", which is aimed at dementia patients.

Broadcasting the Arts

TECHnique is a podcast where artists talk about how technology is affecting them and their practice. Samuel Fry speaks to Martin Franklin about his own art work, broadcasting and archiving in the arts. They discuss Martin's role at organisations such as London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Place and South Hill Park.

Digital Storytelling

TECHnique is a podcast where artists talk about how technology is affecting them and their practice. Richard Adams speaks to Hazel Grian about her work as a producer, writer and digital storyteller. They cover various moments in Hazel's career, which includes working at the Pervasive Media Studio, at Aardman Animations and creating an Alternate Reality Game for JJ Abrams' Star Trek.

Magic

Richard Adams speaks to Stuart Nolan about his work as a magician, artist and technologist. During the episode, the pair talk about many aspect's of Stuart's work, including traditional sleight-of-hand, illusion, performance poetry, storytelling and bespoke technology.

Blockchain and Art

Samuel Fry speaks to Shaun Miller about his portraits, creativity and entrepreneurship. They go on to talk specifically about Blockchain, a technology that has the potential to change the world.

Data Privacy and Art

Samuel Fry speaks to Documentarian Brett Gaylor and Media-Maker Hằng Do Thi Duc about how they use art to explore the issues surrounding Data Privacy. Samuel speaks to Brett Gaylor about his process when creating the documentaries 'RiP!: A Remix Manifesto' and 'Do Not Track'. He then speaks to Hang Do Thi Duc about her project called "Data Selfie" which shows how Facebook can track your activity on their website.

Art Curation

Samuel Fry speaks to Doreen Ríos, a curator and researcher specialised in digital cultures. Doreen is the Director of [ANTI]MATERIA, a website and exhibition series specialising in Mexican digital art. Samuel speaks to her about digital art and the challenges of curating exhibitions.

Interactive Narratives

Richard Adams speaks to Krishna Stott. Krishna Stott is a story and technology pioneer, working with a focus on modern audiences. He runs the company Bellyfeel as a digital innovation partner for forward thinking universities, businesses and individuals. In addition he is currently launching Heroes Villains Gamers as an outlet for leftfield games and stories. (The first one being about divorce and snapchat.)

Creativity

Samuel Fry speaks to Leila Johnston about creativity, art, technology and comedy. Leila Johnston is a writer, artist, maker and consultant working at the intersection of science, technology and culture. She works as the Digital Art Curator of Sheffield’s Site Gallery and is well known for her podcasts, including 'Shift Run Stop', 'Hack Circus' and 'Site Sessions'. The pair discuss Leila's career, plus how being creative can be amazing but sometimes it can also feel like a curse.

Designing Cities

Richard Adams speaks to Professor Rachel Cooper. Rachel is also Director of ImaginationLancaster, an open and exploratory design-led research centre, and she is Chair of Lancaster institute for the Contemporary Arts. Her research covers design thinking, management and policy - all of which are discussed in this episode.

Creative Coding

Samuel Fry speaks to Matthias Dörfelt, a Los Angeles-based artist. Matthias is a Media Artist, who started life as an illustrator and who now produces art ranging from drawings, prints, animation, videos, robotics and interactive installations. The pair discuss how Matthias started learning to code, before discussing various artworks including Matthias' Lumen Award winning Blockchain art, Block Bills.

Art for the Stars

Richard Adams speaks to Jon Pettigrew. Jon was the Commercial Director of SSEYO in the 1990s, developing the Koan Music Engine which was a way of creating "Generative Music", a term popularized by Brian Eno to describe music that is ever-different and changing and that is created by a system. Jon has gone on to create other Generative Art, including Generative Cinema and Narratives. Currently, Jon is Producing Cosmos Art Data where he broadcasts art to the stars.