Peckham Digital: Artist and Computer

In the final episode of Artist & Computer, Bea Taylor Searle speaks to Shaheer Tarar. A net-geo artist, graphic designer, and educator based in London. His practice digs into the socio-political narratives hidden within archives of text, images, and code, transforming them into publications, films, and experimental software. He’s currently a Lecturer in Computation at Central Saint Martins and a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, where his research focuses on digital geographies.

Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii.

Music by Anaya Maheshwari.

In this episode of Artist and Computer, host Bea Taylor Searle speaks with Enorê, a Brazilian-born, London-based artist whose practice fluidly moves between digital and material realms. 

Working with 3D-printed ceramics, textiles, and video, they investigate how digital data can become tangible: using clay’s fragility, imperfection, and temporality as a way to reimagine the slippery boundaries between virtual bodies and physical form.

Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii.

Music by Jalisa Abeid.

In this episode of Artist and Computer, Bea Taylor Searle speaks to Maria Than, a designer, illustrator, creative technologist, educator and activist. She was the winner of Hotel Generation in 2024, a programme run by arebyte, and is currently an Adobe Creative Resident the Victoria & Albert Museum. Maria is also a member of Ricebox Studios alongside an incredibly talented team: Safiya, Maria, Bristy and Anna.

Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii.

Music by On Daydreaming Leave.

In this episode of Artist and Computer, Bea Taylor Searle speaks to Helen Knowles, a multimedia artist and curator whose work is collaborative and thematically wide-reaching, exploring subjects from birth, to the economy, to artificial intelligence.

Helen is the director and curator of Birth Rites Collection, a collection of contemporary art on childbirth. She has exhibited at arebyte gallery, ZKM Karlusche, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo and further!

Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii.

Music by Ana-Maria Margarit.

In this episode of Artist and Computer, Bea Taylor Searle speaks to Vuk Cosic a retired net.artist and ASCII artist. He is best known as an internet art pioneer and author of numerous net.art projects. Outside of net.art he is active in the fields of literature, politics and media archaeology.

Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii.

Music by Ana-Maria Margarit.

In this episode of Artist and Computer, Bea Taylor Searle speaks to Erin Robinson, an award-winning, internationally recognised computational artist and researcher. Erin’s work explores authenticity, existence, and digital subjectivity by blurring the lines between organic and synthetic, reality and simulation, self and other. Listen to this episode to learn more about web scrapers, deepfakes and self-built dataset in artistic practice.

Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii.

Music by On Daydreaming Leave.

In this episode of Artist and Computer, Bea Taylor Searle speaks to Fromm, a British 3D studio by Vince Ibay and Jess Miller with a unique aesthetic inspired by Staffordshire figures. Since founding the studio in 2022 they have worked on a broad range of commissions, from music videos and advertisements to illustrations for billboards, magazines and social media. Listen to this episode to learn more about 3D scanning and Blender.

Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii.

Music by On Daydreaming Leave.

In this episode of Artist and Computer, host Bea Taylor Searle speaks with Dane Sutherland, the creator and curator behind Most Dismal Swamp, a multimedia project rooted in “acid pessimism” and hyperreal collaboration. Based in London, Dane’s work unfolds as a modular, hallucinatory biome: a dense, collaborative ecosystem of installations and online worlds that he describes as Multi-User Shared Hallucinations.

Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii.

Music by Nadezhda Khalid.

In this episode of Artist and Computer, host Bea Taylor Searle speaks with Alida Sun, a generative artist and intersectional futurist based in Berlin and New York. We discuss some differences between the mainstream artworld and the coding communities, what it means to be an activist and how to dismantle both tech’s barriers and the oppressive nature of the companies that dominate them through actively working with Free and Open Source Software and advocating for more people to get involved in these practices.

Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii.

Music by Anaya Maheshwari.

In this episode of Artist and Computer, host Bea Taylor Searle speaks with V Buckenham, an artist, game designer, creative technologist, and curator. Three years ago, she created Downpour, a tool aiming to radically democratise game creation. Tune in for lots of laughter, discussions around being a digital tool maker and all sorts of games!

Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii.

Music by Nadezhda Khalid.