The Downloadable Brain

Creative Contributors

 
 
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Marcos is an artist based in LA, whose practice centers on the investigation of consciousness to engage the visitor’s embodied experience of art. He installs exhibitions of infinite scale and nature in the minds of his audience, investigating consciousness with social groups such as the third-gender Muxhe, Raeilians, synaesthetes, border migrants, space engineers and mental architects. Lutyens has exhibited internationally, including the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2017), Havana Biennial (2019), 57th and 55th International Art Exhibition of La Biennial di Venezia (2013 & 2017), and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2010 & 2014)

 
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ash//ella

Ash//Ella are an artist duo based in Liverpool, using performative storytelling to configure their connection to the corporeal and virtual realms. Their work is often held in mundane settings with surreal interference. Through shared anticipation of human convergence with technology, their research embodies the interplay of physical and cyber materiality which formulates outcomes that sit between video, audio, installation and performance.

 
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ANKITA TRIVEDI

Ankita Trivedi is a spatial designer, researcher and storyteller, interested in the production of unconventional narratives. Her work explores how spatial design practice can facilitate experiences that open critical conversations about social, cultural and political issues; and how our collective imaginations can contribute to creating a more equitable world. Trivedi is a PhD scholar at O.P Jindal Global University (India), and is a Co-Founder of Living Midnight Narrative Outfit (LMNO). Trivedi has also conducted several design theory workshops in various institutions and continues to teach part-time alongside her professional practice.

 
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RICHARD RAMCHURN

Richard Ramchurn is Artistic Director at AlbinoMosquito, and a practising artist and researcher working across the mediums of theatre, film and digital technology. Ramchurn’s current work centres around affective filmic brain computer interface technology.

 
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anna dimitriu

Anna Dumitriu (1969) works with BioArt, sculpture, installation, and digital media to explore our relationship to infectious diseases, synthetic biology and robotics. She has an extensive international exhibition profile including ZKM, Ars Electronica, BOZAR, Philadelphia Science Center, The Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, LABoral, Art Laboratory Berlin.

 
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marcello ienca

Dr Marcello Ienca is a neuroethicist and cognitive scientist working at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Ienca will present his research on the (neuro)ethical and societal implications of emerging technologies at the human-machine interface. He is the PI of the projects "Neurotechnology, Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights", "Digitalizing Elderly Care", and "Hybrid Minds".

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HENRY SHEVLIN

Henry Shevlin is Senior Researcher at The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. He leads the Consciousness and Intelligence Project and Kinds of Intelligence Reading Group, and in 2018 organised the Varieties of Mind conference.


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Dr Sharon tettegah

Dr. Sharon Tettegah is a Professor and Director at the Center for Black Studies Research at the University of California, Santa Barbara. With a diverse background in data science, engineering and other areas of STEM, Tettegah is the co-editor of a series of books exploring emotions, technology, behaviour, design and social media.

 
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sarah selby

Sarah is an interdisciplinary artist exploring digital culture through creative applications of emerging and pervasive technologies. Her work blurs the boundaries between the digital and physical, exploring how they overlap, contradict and impact one another. She seeks to expose and critique invisible and intangible systems, using art to provoke discussion amongst new voices. Selby was selected to participate in the interdisciplinary residency ‘Roche Continents’ and is a member of the Immersive Kind. In 2019 Selby was nominated for the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize in the new-media category, and was selected for arebyte Gallery's 'Hotel Generation' programme resulting in her solo show 'Raised by Google'.

 
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Stephen oram

Stephen Oram is a London-based science fiction writer. He works with artists, scientists and technologists to explore possible future outcomes of their research through short stories. His recent focus has been collaborating with experts to understand current innovations in neuroscience, artificial intelligence and deep machine learning. His sci-fi shorts Eating Robots and Biohacked & Begging have been praised by The Morning Star and The Financial Times.

 
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Rod Dickinson

Rod Dickinson is curator of the Control Shift digital art festival in Bristol, which aims to rethink and reshape our digital tools with creative practice. His artworks have been exhibited across Europe and beyond and explore the history and legacy of behavioral science and its impact on governance, often using software and other digital technologies. He is also Senior Lecturer in Digital Media at The University of the West of England.

 
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ANDRIANA OBOROCEAN

Andriana Oborocean creates videos which are designed to generate psychological and emotional reactions exploring topics such as identity, affective touch between people, nature and technology. Her work often takes a playful nature, displayed alongside mystical and ethereal elements.

 
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abou farman

Abou Farman (1989) is a new media artist and Professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research. His work is concerned with immortality and the secularization processes in relation to technology, with an interest in transhumanist ideals and cryonics. His ethnographic research focused on technoscientific projects in the US attempting to achieve physical immortality is explored in his latest book, On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience (2020).

 
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flora lysen

Flora Lysen is a historian of science fascinated by the circulation of scientific images and stories about new research discoveries. Flora works as a researcher at the Science and Technology Studies research group at Maastricht University, and as a tutor at the Sandberg Institute Amsterdam for artists examining alternative facts, speculative fiction and imagined pasts and futures.

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Alasdair Milne

Alasdair Milne is a LAHP doctoral researcher with Serpentine Galleries’ Creative AI Lab and King’s College London working across the philosophy of technology and artistic encounter. He is specifically concerned with the minutiae of how cognitive labour can be distributed across aggregate systems of thought composed of multiple entities, tools, prostheses, machines, friends, conspirators. His writing has recently been featured on Montez Press Radio and Serpentine’s Art & Ideas platform.

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paolo sulpasso

Paolo Sulpasso is a documentary filmmaker, whose work is based between Rome and Liverpool. As a developer and designer of experimental projects and immersive art experiences, Sulpasso experiments with Augmented Reality technology to embed people's stories in public spaces, building narratives with an emphasis on placemaking. His work is often inspired by and made in collaboration with marginalised communities, giving them an unusual space for expression and creativity.