Episode 18: Maria Than and Computer

Episode 18: Maria Than and Computer

In this episode of Artist and Computer, Bea Taylor Searle speaks to Maria Than, a designer, illustrator, creative technologist, educator and activist. She was the winner of Hotel Generation in 2024, a programme run by arebyte, and is currently an Adobe Creative Resident the Victoria & Albert Museum. Maria is also a member of Ricebox Studios alongside an incredibly talented team: Safiya, Maria, Bristy and Anna. Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii. Music by On Daydreaming Leave.

Episode 17: Helen Knowles and Computer

In this episode of Artist and Computer, Bea Taylor Searle speaks to Helen Knowles, a multimedia artist and curator whose work is collaborative and thematically wide-reaching, exploring subjects from birth, to the economy, to artificial intelligence. Helen is the director and curator of Birth Rites Collection, a collection of contemporary art on childbirth. She has exhibited at arebyte gallery, ZKM Karlusche, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo and further!   Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii. Music by Ana-Maria Margarit.

Episode 16: Vuk Cosic and Computer

In this episode of Artist and Computer, Bea Taylor Searle speaks to Vuk Cosic a retired net.artist and ASCII artist. He is best known as an internet art pioneer and author of numerous net.art projects. Outside of net.art he is active in the fields of literature, politics and media archaeology.   Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii. Music by Ana-Maria Margarit.

Episode 15: Erin Robinson and Computer

In this episode of Artist and Computer, Bea Taylor Searle speaks to Erin Robinson, an award-winning, internationally recognised computational artist and researcher. Erin’s work explores authenticity, existence, and digital subjectivity by blurring the lines between organic and synthetic, reality and simulation, self and other. Listen to this episode to learn more about web scrapers, deepfakes and self-built dataset in artistic practice. Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii. Music by On Daydreaming Leave.

Episode 14: Fromm Studio and Computer

In this episode of Artist and Computer, Bea Taylor Searle speaks to Fromm, a British 3D studio by Vince Ibay and Jess Miller with a unique aesthetic inspired by Staffordshire figures. Since founding the studio in 2022 they have worked on a broad range of commissions, from music videos and advertisements to illustrations for billboards, magazines and social media. Listen to this episode to learn more about 3D scanning and Blender. Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii. Music by On Daydreaming Leave.