Tech, Tea + Exchange

Rachel Falconer

Rachel Falconer is a curator, researcher and the founder of curatorial collective Mutable Prototype Syndicate operating at the critical intersections of contemporary art practice, feminist technoscience, emergent technologies, civic data infrastructures and networked culture. She is Head of Digital Arts Computing and Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Chris Follows

Chris Follows is Emerging Technologies Lead at University of the Arts London (UAL), supporting academic integration of new technologies into creative practice, including design, performance and art. Chris is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the creative relationships between hand-made, code, blockchain and AI Art, through painting. He is co-founder of artsXR, an immersive production studio and founder of Digital Maker Collective.

Alex Estorick

Alex Estorick is a writer, editor, and curator who seeks to develop socially progressive approaches to new technologies. As Editor-in-Chief at Right Click Save, he aims to drive critical conversation about blockchain, NFTs, and Web3. He is also Contributing Editor for Art and Technology at Flash Art. He was lead author of the first aesthetics of crypto art and is an International Selector for The Lumen Prize.

Micol Ap

Micol Ap is an entrepreneur, curator, and leader in the art and technology space. She is the former founder of VERTICAL, a leading digital art & culture platform. Micol has curated exhibitions worldwide, working with some of the most prominent contemporary digital artists. Currently, Micol is the Gallery Director for Fellowship, a contemporary art gallery specializing in artists working with technology.

Daniel Cheetham

Daniel Cheetham has worked at the forefront of immersive content production for 15 years. Conceptualising and producing award winning virtual, augmented and mixed reality content experiences. He was an early practitioner of generative AI techniques, producing the first ever GAN generated mega pixel image (cited by NVidia) and more recently has pioneered the fields of virtual stage production. Working alongside and for brands such as Nike, Microsoft, Sony, Prada, Meta, Adidas, Niantic, Qualcomm, TikTok, Tate and Vacheron Constantin. Daniel also now runs an AR games studio, Hot Dark Matter, alongside his fellow immersive content pioneering co-founders.

Digital Maker Collective

Digital Maker Collective (DMC) are an informal, voluntary Research and Development (R & D) Collective made up of Creative Tech Innovators from University of the Art London (UAL) staff, students, alumni and partners. DMC share common goals in exploring emerging technologies in the context of arts practice, education, society and the creative industries.

Kristina Thiele

Kristina Thiele is a Scandinavian Spatial Designer and VR creative in London. As artsXR co-founder, she creates immersive experiences merging art and technology. Associate lecturer at UAL and AMD Munich while exploring generative AI's potential in immersive experiences unlocking new creative horizons through R&D initiatives.

Jimena Cieza de Leon

Jimena Cieza de Leon is a London-based spatial and 3D designer creating immersive experiences for WebXR platforms like Frame VR. She blends AI and storytelling, exploring how artificial intelligence can act as a creative collaborator in crafting interactive, gamified worlds and reimagining digital narratives.

Damien Borowik

Damien Borowik is a Creative and Learning Technologist based in London. He explores technology in art, blending analog and digital processes. A Central Saint Martins and Goldsmiths graduate, he teaches Creative Coding at the Creative Computing Institute and has worked with the BBC, Dior, Samsung and the V&A amongst others.

Jérémie Wenger

Jérémie Wenger is a Swiss writer and programmer based in London. His practice explores the intersection between literature, constraints and generative processes, as well as the consequences of the rise of Artificial Intelligence on literature and the self.

Nathan Bayliss

Nathan Bayliss is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice interrogates the evolving relationship between human experience and the technologies that shape contemporary life. His work employs fiction and worldbuilding to reveal speculative, critical horizons that traverse social, political and personal narratives. Working across a range of media including AI, AR, VR, animation, and film, Nathan creates works that investigate the implications of emerging technologies.

Robin Leverton

Robin Leverton is a London-based artist, curator, technologist, and researcher. His work explores the materiality and ontology of artificial intelligence, particularly in relation to identity, embodiment, and agency. His practice spans sculpture, painting, printmaking, and installation, integrating cutting edge technologies into traditional arts practices.

Robin is part of the computational arts collective _threadsafe where he is researching “Topology” as a framework for artistic investigations into the application of computing as a medium for intersectional creativity.

Jennifer Walshe

Jennifer Walshe is an Irish composer, vocalist, and interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans experimental music, performance, and digital culture. She is Professor of Composition at the University of Oxford. Walshe’s work frequently engages with AI and post-human aesthetics. Her essay 13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music articulates a framework for understanding machine learning-generated art, avoiding optimistic tech-boosterism and predictions of doom to consider AI as companion species, conceptual art, and even boobs.

Annouchka Bayley

Dr Annouchka Bayley (SFHEA) is the Chair of the Arts and Creativities Research Group, co-lead of an arts-sciences and sustainability lab at CRASSH and the former designer and director of the Arts, Creativities and Education MPhil Programme (2021-24) at the University of Cambridge. She has published extensively on posthumanism, new materialism and artistic research and has recently formed the Cambridge Posthuman Network. She also brought out her first novel The Blood Countess recently.

Bidisha

Bidisha is a broadcaster and presenter on screen, mic, page and stage. Covering the arts and culture as well as current affairs, she writes for the main UK broadsheets and works for BBC TV and radio, CNN, Channel 5 and Sky News. Her most recent publication is the essay The Future of Serious Art (Tortoise Media). She is also an acclaimed artist creating films and stills, including her short film An Impossible Poison (2017) and the Aurora series (2020-2023).

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