In this episode of Artist and Computer, host Bea Taylor Searle speaks to Tigris Li, an artist and creative technologist whose work reimagines technology as a catalyst for meaningful human connection. Learn how Tigris stole remote controls from her parents hotel to make her first robots, how mine craft sparked her creativity and lots more! 

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Music by Ella Wessendorff.

In this episode, Bea Taylor Searle and Freddie Hong explore how computers fundamentally reshape the way artists and designers approach creative practice. Freddie reflects on how computational systems introduce new modes of thinking—shifting design from a purely manual process to one that is iterative, generative, and deeply entangled with software.

The conversation also turns toward datasets and their temporal signatures—how the data we choose to train, shape, or inform our work can situate an artwork within a particular moment in time. From changing cultural references embedded in datasets to the evolving biases and structures of digital information, we unpack how these elements become part of an artwork’s context, meaning, and historical positioning.

Together, these themes offer a nuanced look at how computational processes are not just technical systems, but active collaborators in contemporary creative practice.

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Music by Joey Zhou.

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In this episode of Artist and Computer, host Bea Taylor Searle speaks with Nina Davies, a Canadian-British artist whose work explores the present moment through the lens of dance in popular culture. You can expect lots of laughter, talk about TikTok dances and Fortnite Emotes, and lots of Nina's research work trying to map all the dances in the world throughout history!

References made in the episode:

• Anthea Kraut, Choreographing Copyright: Race, Gender, and Intellectual Property Rights in American Dance

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Music by Ana-Maria Margarit.

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In this episode of Artist and Computer, host Bea Taylor Searle speaks with Ahnjili Zhuparris, an AI engineer, artist, and science communicator whose work explores the intersections of data, AI, and surveillance technologies. Through her projects, Ahnjili pushes boundaries and provokes discussion around topics like predictive policing, voice and identity, digital surveillance, and Afrofuturism.

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Music by Andres Martinez.

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In this episode of Artist and Computer, host Bea Taylor Searle speaks with artist Maya Man, whose work explores how identity, femininity, and authenticity are performed and perceived online. Through her generative websites, browser extensions, and installations, Maya examines what it means to be seen, to perform, and to “be real” in the algorithmic spaces that shape our lives.

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Music by Nell Lang.

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In this episode of Artist and Computer, host Bea Taylor Searle speaks with Catherine Mason — an art historian, curator, and writer specialising in the history of digital and computer art. Catherine is the author of A Computer in the Art Room: The Origins of British Computer Arts 1950–1980, a landmark text that documents the early years of artists experimenting with technology in the UK.

Together, Bea and Catherine revisit the original questions posed in Ruth Leavitt’s 1976 anthology Artist and Computer, reflecting on how artists first engaged with computers, the challenges that computer art has faced to enter the mainstream art world, and why these conversations remain vital today.

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Music by Joey Zhou.

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