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  • The Lake -
    A site-specific installation, and early data artwork using live real-time biological data. The Lake questions how data abstracts life and our environment, and how we use technology to connect with living things. Installed by the lakeside at Tingrith
  • More Than Us -
    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 Suprematist paintings of the
  • This multipart work uses real-time data gathered from a colony of naked mole-rats, allowing a peek into their lives. The project reflects Julie Freeman’s fascination with their cooperative lifestyle and how it differs from human social organization.
  • We Need Us -
    What is the meaning of data beyond its value-laden content? We Need Us draws metadata from the activities of citizen science site Zooniverse’s million+ participants to create an ever-growing environment of sounds and animated forms. Unlike
  • Tea Flock -
    Tea Flock infuses migrating rituals and represents emerging patterns through the group behaviour of objects, using data from migratory birds to-and-from tea-growing countries and the UK. A dynamic gaggle of unfilled vessels flock to tea-rich lands
  • Water Lily Invasion -
    As global water levels and temperatures rise, plants and animals are mutating to adapt. Strange new creatures are arising at the interstices between plant and animal, questioning and transgressing the boundaries of what is considered to be reactive
  • The augmented reality (AR) installation Gardens of the Anthropocene posits a science-fiction future in which native aquatic and terrestrial plants have mutated to cope with the increasing unpredictable and erratic climate swings. The plants in the
  • Land of Cloud -
    Winner of the VRHAM 2018 Audience Award Three days journey beyond Space and Time lies the Land of Cloud. The people there are silent. They communicate not through speech, gesture or gaze, but instead through strange and wondrous "cloud mirrors."
  • Digital Wave -
    How might we connect with ‘intangible’ digital technologies in ways we understand and can touch? Digital Wave is a large-scale interactive digital installation examining spatial movement and energy flow in a hands-on, interactive artwork measuring 3
  • In Particular -
    Nanoparticles are already in daily use, for example, enhancing the functionality of sun creams and sticking plasters. Meanwhile, work is underway to develop revolutionary, futuristic advances – such as tiny machines that can zip around our