Seminar and Book Launch
19 June 2024, University Building, Northampton Square, City University
The event and book launch brings together the latest interdisciplinary research and insights on designing cities that go beyond human-centric approaches.
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Talk
18 April 2024
Vancouver, Canada
Join artist and TED Senior Fellow Julie Freeman and executive director of the ArtScience Museum, Honor Harger, for a conversation about Julie's Shaped Sound™ sculptures in the TED Fellows Park.
Activation at Late at Tate Britain
05 April 2024
Tate Britain, London
Patterns of Power is a project that brought together artists, data specialists, coders, researchers and creatives to explore critical data mapping and storytelling through the lens of Women in Revolt! at Tate Britain. Join the team in a live dialogue with an AI ‘entity’ developed based on the data gathering of the project. The project is part of an initiative at Tate Britain, Electronic Life, working with young people to experiment with and challenge AI and new digital technologies. Patterns of Power is led by independent curator, Hannah Redler Hawes with artist Julie Freeman, notable for their work in the area of art and data, in collaboration with the Electronic Life convenors, Ed D’Souza and Sunil Manghani, from Winchester School of Art, along with coder Tom Savage and artist Léllé Demertzi based at The Alan Turing Institute. Patterns of Power was co-designed by young people from Element and Tate Collective Producers, with support from Women in Revolt! curator, Linsey Young, and Ruchika Gurung, Tate Learning.
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/late-at-tate-britain
Talk at Creative Computing Institute
28 February 2024
University of the Arts, London
Exhibition of Allusive Protocols
04 November 2023
Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai
Postscript of Silence aims to explore aspects of the world that have not yet been coded into the human perceptual lexicon, thereby examining and questioning knowledge pertaining to environments that are increasingly being technologised and operationalised. Artists: Vibeke Mascini & Ella Finer, Fei Yining, Julie Freeman, Liu Chuang, Nicole L’Huillier, Hsu Chia-Wei, Knowbotiq, Jeroen van Loon, Nicholas Mangan, Yuri Pattison, Diana Policarpo, Shubigi Rao, Riar Rizaldi, Susan Schuppli, Nastassja Simensky, Himali Singh Soin, Su Yu Hsin, Jol Thoms, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, Richard Vijgen, Susanne M. Winterling, Cosmo Wong, Zhang Beichen
Exhibition
22 July 2023
Oxford
Boundary Encounters is Modern Art Oxford’s summer programme and collaboration with artists and communities, featuring new work from artists Valerie Asiimwe Amani, Julie Freeman, Harold Offeh and Deborah Pill. 'Another Present' is an intimate listening experience, combining sonic works by women artists from Modern Art Oxford’s archive, audience data and field recordings into sculptures created by Julie Freeman. The sounds reverberate through wooden sculptural forms, inspired by shapes created by the artist’s body. These objects are vessels to hear and feel the space differently; they encourage touch and connection, challenging perceptions of how we learn from the past. The work incorporates, and celebrates, previously commissioned audio works by artists Sarah Kenchington, Ann Liselgaard and Hannah Rickards from Modern Art Oxford’s archives. New material includes field recordings from Medley Bridge, connecting Freeman’s own personal history of Oxford with her father, and their shared love of technology and nature.
Modern Art Oxford
https://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/boundary-encounters
Exhibition
10 June 2023
LAAC, Art and Industry Triennial, Dunkerque, France
Featuring our work Active Living Infrastructure: Controlled Environment (ALICE) the 2nd edition of the Art and Industry Triennial showcases the theme of energy through different lenses, including oil, nuclear power, landscape transformation, work, fatigue, pollution, recycling and the future. Marked by a multidisciplinary approach, it invites us to reflect on the past, present, and future of our relationship with industry through the eyes of artists, engineers, designers, graphic designers, and architects.
Exhibition
23 March 2023
Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM), Germany
Featuring Active Living Infrastructure: Controlled Environment (ALICE) - v2, the exhibition presents contemporary approaches of artists who, on the one hand, continue the lines of research of the preceding renaissances and, on the other, open up new fields of research. It also features convincing parallel research or elective affinities between science and art. The focus is on a new culture of tools. On the basis of 35 media art positions, it provides insights into artistic laboratory situations and artistic-scientific collaborations that open up a shared multidisciplinary "Wissensfeld" (base of knowledge) for the 21st century — from biochemistry to genetic engineering and information design to neuroscience and unconventional computing.
Special commission for the Hiscox Collection
02 October 2022
London, UK
Exploring climate prediction as a game of chance and of skill, More Than Us offers us a glimpse of the astronomically huge dataspace we exist in. Two communities of colourful geometric shapes drawn, or ‘recycled’, from abstract Suprematist paintings of the early 1900s, congregate, ebb and flow in response to historical and predictive climate catastrophe data sets. Both communities move randomly to find high values in the same data. Engaged in a game of chance, some navigate raw, unstructured data. Others exhibit a more purposeful behaviour as they are driven by pronounced data patterns emerging from an artificial neural network. At the heart of the ever-changing composition, ‘splinters’ from the ‘data spine’ represent real-time digital transactions across the Hiscox businesses.
Panel discussion
09 July 2022
Barbican Centre, London, UK
How can digital experiences help us connect with the natural world? In this talk, join artists, activists and digital designers to consider how technology can help us restore our connection to nature. Our current age of rapid urban and technological growth is underpinning today’s ecological crisis. But how can technology help us to repair our broken connection with nature? This panel, including Ersin Han Ersin, Julie Freeman, Kim Boutin and Kalpana Arias, will explore the importance of nature connection in the digital age and the role of technology in restoring our connection to the natural world.
Barbican
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2022/event/digital-nature
Electromagnetic Field
04 June 2022
Eastnor, UK
https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/307-pee-is-powerful-from-artwork-to-new-world-infrastructures
Exhibition
19 May 2022
Open Data Institute, London
*Allusive Protocols (prototypes)* is a series of three kinetic data-driven artwork prototypes – *AP: Space, AP: Land and AP: Sea*. It was created as a thought-experiment during a residency at the Open Data Institute investigating power, diplomacy and ecology in the material internet: the vast networks of cables, satellites and data-centres that connect us. These materials create an infrastructure of information that is often (mis)perceived as ephemeral, and therefore not connected to real-world environmental impacts.
The Cultural Leadership Exchange Initiative
21 February 2022
Goldsmiths, University of London, and the National Institute of the Dramatic Arts, Sydney
17 January 2022
The Margate School, Margate, UK
26 November 2021
ODI Artist in Residence Rohini Devasher and artist/ODI Art Associate Julie Freeman discuss using technology and data to strengthen our connection to the natural world and our understanding of climate change challenges.
Open Data Institute
https://theodi.org/event/odi-fridays-data-art-and-living-systems/
Conversation on RAT.systems
10 November 2021
Conversation between Dr Julie Freeman and Adrià López-Baucells, on the occasion of RAT.systems being exhibited for Festival Panoràmic Granollers at Museu de Ciencies Naturals de Granollers, Spain.
Museu de Ciencies Naturals de Granollers, Spain
Talk and Exhibition
25 September 2021
V&A, London
How might our pee transform our homes into energy-generating structures? Harnessing the power of human waste, the ALICE project ‘living bricks’ use microbial fuel cell technology to provide an alternative to fossil fuels. The bricks power a biodigital artwork which captures their data to feed an animation based on bacterial foraging algorithms. See artwork ALICE and a talk with Julie Freeman and Hannah Redler Hawes.
https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/EY7xyG3q/digital-design-weekend-2021
Ars Electronica
09 September 2021
Human Cell Atlas
16 June 2021
Hosted on Zoom
ArtSci Salon IV: From Donor to Open Data will consider our data driven society and the evolving role and application of open data within science and art. This session will bring thinkers exploring the implications of our rapidly evolving open data landscape on society, scientists engaged in open data analysis, coordination and visualisation within the Human Cell Atlas, and also with artists who critically engage with open data to create art. We will consider how Art-Sci collaborations can offer new ways to think about complex issues such as; permission and consent, collection and management, agency and ownership, bias and ethics, storage, access, use and legacy.
Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Grant
Digital Cultures Webinar Series
10 May 2021
National College of Art and Design, Dublin (NCAD) and The Digital Hub, Dublin (online)
Elaine Hoey and Dr Rachel O’ Dwyer
NCAD
https://www.ncad.ie/gallery-event/view/digital-cultures-webinar-series-2021
Dorkbot, London
18 December 2020
Julie will talk about her latest data art project Active Living Infrastructure: Controlled Environment (ALICE) which aims to create a live digital interface between microbes and humans. Working with Bristol Robotics Lab, and Newcastle University's Experimental Architecture team, ALICE is concerned with how can we build an interface to integrate urine consuming electricity producing microbes into our homes. Pee\ Power FTW.
Jonty Wareing
CI Labs #12: Creativity and curation in a post-digital world
17 September 2020
Edinburgh University’s Creative Informatics lab
Digital Power: Activism, Advocacy and the Influence of Women Online
02 August 2020
17 June 2020
Federal Far East University, Vladivostok, Russia.
13 May 2020
Hosted on zoom
Exploring shifting spaces of production, labour and artistic practice in a precarious world.
https://futureeverything.org/event/future-focus-art-hack-practice/
04 February 2020
Open Data Institute
Author and editor discussion to celebrate the publication of *Art Hack Practice: Critical Intersections of Art, Innovation and the Maker Movement*
Victoria Bradbury and Suzy O’Hara
https://theodi.org/event/copy-that-surplus-data-in-an-age-of-repetitive-duplication/
Abandon Normal Devices
01 December 2019
Barbican
14 November 2019
VIII St Petersburg Cultural Forum
Digital Catapult with Abandon Normal Devices
09 October 2019
Creative XR Showcase
Opening session for the Encode conference
18 September 2019
Outliers in Data Design
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-art-encode-data-journeys-opening-night-tickets-68710867053
Seasons of Media Arts
08 August 2019
ZKM | Karlsruhe, Germany
TED Summit
21 July 2019
Edinburgh
Virtual reality experience
19 July 2019
Bluedot Festival, Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire
*I̶n̛t͘e͟rf̕e̢ren̵ce was created by Julie Freeman, as part of COSMOS, the international artists commission and residency for the Lovell Telescope. Produced by Abandon Normal Devices, commissioned by Jodrell Bank Observatory, Abandon Normal Devices and Cheshire East Council as part of SHIFT. Supported by University of Manchester, bluedot, Arup, Kuva, with public funds from Arts Council England (ACE) and CreativeXR, a joint collaboration between Digital Catapult and ACE.*
Digital Catapult
12 June 2019
Digital Catapult and the Open Data Institute (ODI) conclude a series of events that delve into the relationship between arts and technology, with an interactive workshop event exploring immersive (virtual, augmented and mixed reality) and future networks technologies (such as 5G and the internet of things). How does an increasingly hybrid environment – where ‘physical’ and ‘virtual’ realities are increasingly indistinguishable – affect interpersonal relationships, our sense of responsibility, empathy, who and what we care about? Closing the gaps invites artists, content makers and industry experts to respond to this evolution of technology and the role it will play in our lives, examining how the online and offline worlds are coming closer together and what social, philosophical, corporeal and emotional challenges, and benefits, arise. The Hybrid Landscapes exhibition is curated and produced by Data as Culture at the ODI.
Data as Culture / ODI
13 May 2019
Open School East, Margate, UK
10 April 2019
Open Data Institute annual summit
20 November 2018
Seminar
16 November 2018
University of the Arts Berlin (UdK)
NEoN Digital Art Festival
06 November 2018
Exhibition and Curators' Tour
27 September 2018
The Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
06 July 2018
The Royal Society, London, UK
https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2018/07/life-drawing/
07 June 2018
Open Society, Sofia, Bulgaria
Fine Acts
Filmmaking hackathon
18 May 2018
University of York, UK
https://digitalcreativity.ac.uk/events/filmmaking-hackathon-data-driven-storytelling
How To Translate Nature into Data
17 May 2018
The Sage, Gateshead, UK
Data for Development Festival
21 March 2018
Bristol, UK
The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
MetaMorf Conference
10 March 2018
Trondheim, Norway
Exhibition at the Open Data Institute, London.
18 January 2018
Curated by Julie Freeman and Hannah Redler-Hawes
Data, art, activism workshop
24 November 2017
Sofia, Bulgaria
21 October 2017
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
New Scientist Live
28 September 2017
Naked mole-rat life drawing and data art showcase.
Medialab Prado Visualizar’17
16 September 2017
Madrid, Spain
https://www.medialab-matadero.es/actividades/visualizar17-migraciones
Group exhibition
19 August 2017
Sway, UK
Exhibition
22 June 2017
FACT, Liverpool
*The New Observatory* responds to the challenges of standardisation in an increasingly technologically-mediated world. It offers a space where the predictability of things is challenged, where logic may fail, and where that failure can create space for new possibilities. By conjuring new and untold stories, from the personal to the political, micro to macro, abstract numbers are transformed into tactile and immersive artworks: personal health records are metamorphosed into digitally printed seashells, the data of divorce is reassessed, soft robotics visualise the social structures of micro-chipped naked mole rats, open source ground stations trace the constellations of satellites that circle the earth, and animatronic face masks replay covert recordings of NSA employees. It invites visitors to consider how everyday life is a subject of observation in which we all perform as our own micro-observatories, or ‘observatories of ourselves’. It asks us to reassess our roles as active citizens within a ‘surveillance’ culture, where the infrastructure that surrounds and enables our lives is both physical and digital, and to forge more meaningful, critical or intimate relationships with the data landscapes we inhabit. Curated by Hannah Redler Hawes (ODI) and Sam Skinner, the exhibition includes interactive works, installations, sound, film, photography, critical design projects, drawing and mixed media. It will be the world premiere of *Recruitment Gone Wrong* (2016), *Divorce Index* (2016) and *Curtain of Broken Dreams* (2016), three new large-scale commissions by internationally renowned British artists Thomson & Craighead and Natasha Caruana, respectively, who were the ODI’s first ever artists in residence in 2015. Other confirmed artists are: Burak Arikan, Wafaa Bilal, James Coupe, Phil Coy, Julie Freeman, Citizen Sense, David Gauthier, Interaction Research Studio, Rachel Jacobs, Jackie Karuti, Kei Kreutler, Libre Space Foundation, Stanza, Liz Orton, Proboscis (Giles Lane and Stefan Kueppers), Jeronimo Voss, and Yu-Chen Wang.
In collaboration with the Open Data Institute
21 May 2017
Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
Hermitage Museum
Pint of Science
17 May 2017
Kasper Althoefer
Resonate 2017
19 April 2017
Belgrade, Serbia
24 March 2017
London, UK
https://music.britishcouncil.org/news-and-features/2017-03-17/convergence-sessions-2017
Artist's talk for Margate WI
12 January 2017
Margate, UK
Exhibition
03 December 2016
Watermans, London
*Technology is not Neutral* is a touring exhibition project that highlights and investigates the work of a group of women artists in the field of digital arts. This new curatorial project explores methods of working with new technologies and the themes that bring these artists together. From drone choreography, sequencing of bacteria and brainwave art to hacking reality, social media activism and telepresence, this exhibition highlights the contribution of female artists in shaping what digital art is today. The exhibition title references the challenges faced by female artists in this field where they are often under-represented.
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England. In partnership with The Computer Arts Society, UCL Department of Computer Science, Women Shift Digital and Phoenix Brighton.
https://www.watermans.org.uk/new-media-arts-archive/technology-is-not-neutral/
Workshop with Marcin Ignac
03 December 2016
Watermans, London
https://www.watermans.org.uk/new-media-arts-archive/technology-is-not-neutral/
State of Flux – soft robotics symposium
01 December 2016
Queen Mary University of London, UK
A cross-disciplinary conversation on soft robotics in art & design symposium
23 November 2016
Royal College of Art, London, UK
17 November 2016
Phoenix, Leicester, UK
Institute of Creative Technologies De Montfort University, Leicester, UK and University of Science & Technology Beijing, China
https://www.phoenix.org.uk/event/creative-technologies-in-the-public-realm/
04 November 2016
Watermans, London, UK
Technology is not Neutral was a touring exhibition project that highlighted and investigated the work of a group of women artists in the field of digital arts. This curatorial project explored methods of working with new technologies and the themes that bring these artists together. From drone choreography, sequencing of bacteria and brainwave art to hacking reality, social media activism and telepresence, this exhibition highlighted the contribution of female artists in shaping what digital art is. The exhibition title references the challenges faced by female artists in this field where they are often under-represented. The exhibition featured existing and newly commissioned work by leading pioneering and contemporary female digital artists, such as Ghislaine Boddington, Susan Collins, Laura Dekker, Anna Dumitriu, Bhavani Esapathi, Julie Freeman, Kate Genevieve, Sue Gollifer, Luciana Haill, Nina Kov, and Gordana Novakovic.
Curated by Gordana Novakovic, Anna Dumitriu and Irini Papadimitriou/Watermans.
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England. In partnership with The Computer Arts Society, UCL Department of Computer Science, Women Shift Digital and Phoenix Brighton.
https://www.watermans.org.uk/new-media-arts-archive/technology-is-not-neutral/
ODI Summit
01 November 2016
BFI, London
Utopia 2016, Somerset House
10 October 2016
Somerset House, London, UK
Multi-work installation, talks, comedy event, workshops
Session: Symbiosis in Media Art & Technology
16 September 2016
London, UK
Group exhibition
10 September 2016
Mile End Pavilion, London, UK
Group exhibition
02 September 2016
Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, UK
Technology is Not Neutral was a touring exhibition that targeted the frequent under-representation of the achievements of women in the field of digital art by highlighting the contribution of female artists in shaping what digital art is today.
Group exhibition and conference
30 August 2016
Jakarta, Indonesia
Exhibition
21 May 2016
Art and Science Museum, Singapore
Experience data in a whole new light at ArtScience Museum's upcoming Big Bang Data exhibition. Through a series of thought-provoking data visualisation artworks by artists, designers, journalists and innovators, you'll gain new perspectives on the issues surrounding the rapid datafication of our world, and discover the ways in which our ever-expanding digital footprint is radically transforming our lives, our decisions, and the future of society itself.
https://www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhibition-archive/big-bang-data.html
Women of the World festival
13 March 2016
Southbank Centre, London, UK
Big Bang Data Dating
13 February 2016
Somerset House, London, UK
http://bigbangdata.somersethouse.org.uk/event/bbd-data-dating-julie-freeman-artist-talk/
DorkbotLondon
11 December 2015
London, UK
Naked mole rats, data, and more
Big Bang Data exhibition
03 December 2015
Somerset House, London, UK
Feat. a performance (ish) of We Need Us
23 November 2015
Queen Mary University of London, UK
https://sites.google.com/site/c4dmconcerts1516/home/fixedmedia/computermusic
Exhibition
12 November 2015
The Lowry, Manchester, UK
A major new exhibition providing a thought provoking snapshot of contemporary digital art is currently on display at The Lowry, Salford Quays. Featuring the work of 16 international artists, *Right Here, Right Now* looks at how technology affects our lives – through surveillance, artificial intelligence, voyeurism or online dating. Created in the last five years, these critical, playful and illuminating artworks challenge our understanding of the digital systems that surround us, while making visible those that are hidden.
Open Data Institute Summit
03 November 2015
London, UK
28 October 2015
IEEE VISAP, Chicago, USA
IEEE VIS art show
27 October 2015
IEEE VIS art show, Leroy Neiman Center, Chicago, USA
AHRC Digital Transformations event by CREAM
24 October 2015
University of Westminster, London, UK
Nesta’s Digital R&D event: Making Digital Work
07 October 2015
Arts Festival
28 May 2015
Royal Festival Hall, London
The Web allows us to communicate with people around the world, making it a vehicle for creative exploration, personal relationships and enormous business opportunities. However, there is also jeopardy. The ‘dark net’ facilitates underground online networks for everything from buying drugs to extreme politics. Also, universal and free access to the Web is under threat, as its governance is in the hands of a small number of people. Held at the Southbank Centre, the festival is inspired by the work of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and produced in partnership with Sir Tim's World Wide Web Foundation.
Southbank Centre
Keynote talk for Data Natives
15 May 2015
Digital Shoreditch
11 May 2015
London, UK
Hannah Redler
Exhibition at the Overseas Development Initiative’s Cartegena Data Festival, Columbia
20 April 2015
Open data and art, data art, Data as Culture.
06 March 2015
Open School East, London, UK
Curating Art after New Media Course
25 February 2015
University of Sunderland, UK
Workshop on Open Data with Gavin Starks
20 January 2015
Hull, UK
05 November 2014
with Dame Wendy Hall (swoon), Jude Kelly, Ruth MacKenzie
04 November 2014
BFI, London, UK
06 October 2014
TED Global, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Panel discussion
10 September 2014
British Library, London, UK
Speaking with Ernest Edmonds, Anthony Lilley, Michael Takeo, Kevin Walker *Computational methods for the creation and interpretation of digital Data is an established activity among researchers in all fields of scholarship. Huge amounts of information collected from multiple digital resources are used and combined by scientists, helping them to approach their research questions from interesting angles and innovative perspectives. But the fact is that digital Data is moving beyond research practices to become an inspirational motif in other areas, as it is the case of contemporary artistic expression. Artists are integrating digital Data into their work, helping to translate large amounts of information into meaningful content to their audiences.*
Exhibition and Talk
09 September 2014
GV Art Gallery, London, UK
The exhibition presents 50 years of British art that is generated from strict procedures. The artists make their work by following rules or by writing computer programs. They range from system-based paintings and drawings to evolving computer generated images.Julie Freeman's collaborative work Drawing by Numbers with Simon Emberton was part of the show.
Data as an Art Material and Digital Art
05 September 2014
Houses of Pariliament in Belfast, UK
BBC Radio 4 – Front Row
22 August 2014
20 June 2014
Lighthouse, Brighton
Preview screening of We Need Us
13 June 2014
Tate Modern, London, UK
Work-in-progress [We Need Us](http://www.weneedus.org/) presented alongside works by Ai Weiwei, Lillian Schwartz, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Jeremy Deller, David Hockney, Olafur Eliasson, Universal Everything (Matt Pyke), Jim Boulton & Craig Blagg, Anneika Rose, Sue Austin, Paul Pfeiffer, Sally Reid, Elastic Future, Pierre Hebert, Larry Cuba, Bart Vegter.
30 May 2014
members only venue
Data Jam with Central Saint Martins students
17 May 2014
London, UK
16 May 2014
LVMH Lecture Theatre E003, Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, London N1C 4AA
***Join stellar guests Julie Freeman, Chris Downs and researchers from Goldsmith’s Interaction Research Studio for an evening exploring creative uses of data for art and design.** As data plays an increasingly significant role in shaping our society, it is important to consider its meaning and impact for our social, political and cultural lives. The speakers will present their current projects and discuss how they critically evaluate the promise of open data to democratize information flows and access.*
11 April 2014
Open Data Institute, London, UK
Art curator [Shiri Shalmy](https://twitter.com/ShiriShalmy) talked to Open Data Institute’s Art Associate Julie Freeman about the curatorial process behind the 2014 Data as Culture exhibition. This explored our relationship with surveillance, privacy, and personal data, taking a critical and sometimes comedic look at the power of open data. Works included pneumatic contraptions, satellite imagery, data collection performances, and knitted data discrepancies.
Private View for the new Data as Culture exhibition at the Open Data Institute
24 March 2014
Women of the World festival at St Paul’s Roof Pavilion
07 March 2014
Southbank Centre, London, UK
*What role are women playing in the tech and digital industry, and how the many aspects of the web can or should be influenced by women’s voices? Does it matter?* *As the percentage of female internet users who use social networking sites surpasses that of men (approx 75% vs. 63%, respectively) it becomes increasingly clear that women are in a powerful position to shape the future of the web and new technologies. We are also beginning to see the barriers to learning code diminish; the languages and constructs of the web and technologies are becoming more accessible, intuitive, applicable and creatively applied.* *We ask key female influencers, creatives and entrepreneurs in the fields of technology and media about the opportunities they see for women now and in the future. We’ll focus on how women are making, shaping and contributing to the web and new technologies but also question why we still face so many gender inequalities within the digital, technology and media industries.* *Cheryl Bart, board member of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) looks at the future of the media at a time when we’re all journalists. The speakers are Mariéme Jamme, CEO of SpotOne Global Solutions and founder of African Gathering, Open Data Institute artist in resident and computer scientist Julie Freeman and Emma MulQueeny Co-Founder of Rewired State. Chaired by Olivia Solon, deputy editor of Wired.co.uk*
Lunchtime lectures
20 December 2013
Open Data Institute, London, UK
*To end the year with a sparkle, we asked three Friday lunchtime lecturers – Julie Freeman, Jeni Tennison and Patrick Hussey – to return and tell us their version or vision of an Open Data Christmas.*
Science Museum Lates
27 November 2013
Science Museum, London, UK
*What does the drawn line look like to a computer? Take part in a life drawing class in Universal Everything & You and find out how to turn your drawing into code with artist Julie Freeman, who will also introduce her art practice working with algorithms and software.*
Case Study: The Open Data Institute
11 November 2013
London, UK
*Artists use data as an art material in many ways: materialising them physically, sonifying them to amplify natural phenomena, coalescing them to create new realities. They question how objective the treatment of data is, and how much truth do we expect from an artwork with statistical roots? And we are asked to consider whether it matters. If we accept that there is dogma in the artists code, do we accept that it plays a part in other code too?* \ *At the Open Data Institute (ODI) we see the creative use of data as an intrinsic and essential part of our cultural landscape. As part of it’s ongoing operations, the ODI has an Art Programme committed to facilitating artists in the exhibition and creation of works which translate data into something that is meaningful to people’s lives.*\ – Julie Freeman, Art Associate at The ODI
The Open Data Institute Annual Summit
29 October 2013
Museum of London
Open Data Institute
Technology Strategy Board and The Creative Industries KTN
10 October 2013
Women in Data
08 October 2013
Presentation of case studies on how data is being used by artists in their work.
17 August 2013
Vancouver, Canada
Post-award ceremony celebration
25 June 2013
Tate Modern, London, UK
Featured works from the PROTOTYPE series were on display: Lepidopteral and Bird + the Moon *At the event which showcased innovate artworks, engineers **Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Louis Pouzin, Tim Berners-Lee** and **Marc Andreessen** were announced as the winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering at the Royal Academy of Engineering. The Prize is a £1million global engineering prize designed to reward and celebrate the individuals responsible for a ground-breaking innovation in engineering that has been of global benefit to humanity.*
International conference on human-computer interaction
27 April 2013
Paris, France
Participant in Crafting Interactive Systems: Learning from Digital Art Practice.
Facilitating Artistic Practice panel
21 March 2013
Manchester, UK
*The FutureEverything conference is a meeting ground for the digital and creative communities. It is focused on the trends and innovations in the digital sphere. In 2013 there were three main themes – **Creative Code,** **Future Cities** and **The Data Society**. Exploring the interface between technology, society and culture, it is the crucible that allows artists, technologists and future thinkers to share, innovate and interact.* Julie Freeman spoke on the Facilitating Artistic Practice panel about a career as a digital artist, and the cycle of facilitating herself and facilitating others.
TED2013
25 February 2013
Longbeach, California, USA
Attending as a Senior TED Fellow, speaking at TED University on the Data as Culture collection of data-driven art.
Open Data Institute: Data as Culture
11 January 2013
29 November 2012
Open Data Institute, London, UK
22 November 2012
Cameron McKenna, London, UK
01 October 2012
O’Reilly Strata Conference, London
Unprecedented computing power and connectivity are bringing new layers of experience to our lives: a change that brings both opportunity and the challenge of new technologies and skills. The future belongs to those who understand how to collect and use their data successfully.
19 September 2012
The Eighteenth International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness is a symposium and series of events exploring the discourse of global proportions on the subject of art, technology and nature.