TECHnique

Sam Fry speaks to Carla Rapoport and Jack Addis, the team behind The Lumen Prize for Art and Technology.

The Lumen Prize celebrates the very best art created with technology through a global competition, exhibitions and events worldwide. During the episode they speak about the prize, how they are working with digital artists and state of digital art today.

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Richard F Adams speaks to Giles Lane, an artist and and designer that is fascinated by how people create and share knowledge.

Giles is one of the directors of the independent, artist-led creative studio – Proboscis, alongside Alice Angus. There he works on projects that enable storytelling through engaging with different kinds of people in different places. The pair discuss storytelling, rituals and how we use data around the world.

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Sam Fry speaks to Tom Chambers and Theo Papatheodorou from the creative technology company Random Quark.

At Random Quark, the pair create immersive experiences that aim to bring a smile and some delight into people's lives. They have worked with organisations such as the NHS and Tommy Hilfiger, plus they create their own projects too - such as a mirror which reflects back your emotions and sends happy or sad Tweets out of your head.

During the podcast, Sam, Tom and Theo talk about these projects, immersive technology, art hackathons and Random Quark's creative process.

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Sam Fry speaks to Ash Thorp. Ash is a prolific designer, who works as an illustrator, graphic designer, and creative director. He created the user interfaces and other design work for both the films Ender’s Game and Total Recall, plus he has been part of the design team for films such as Prometheus, X-Men: First Class and The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Ash also hosts The Collective Podcast, where he talks to creatives such as visual effects artists, designers, illustrators, and programmers. Sam and Ash talk about his work and how he manages his creative output.

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Richard F Adams speaks to Tim Kindberg. Tim is a digital technologist that works out of the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol. He founded the social video platforms Vorb and Nth Screen, alongside other technologies for people to act collectively and creatively. Alongside his project work, he is a researcher and lecturer that regularly gives talks about technology from a skeptical point of view.

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Samuel Fry speaks to Dan Barnard and Rachel Briscoe, who together run fanSHEN. As a company, they create audience-centric experiences which involve elements of performance, game and installation. The episode also includes Joe McAlister, a computational artist and privacy advocate. Joe has collaborated with fanSHEN on 'The Justice Syndicate', a piece of interactive theatre that gathers 12 audience members to take on the role of jurors.

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To celebrate our 25th episode, for the first time our two podcast hosts interview each other. Samuel Fry speaks to Richard F Adams. The pair discuss Richard's arts practice, digital art (including both the opportunities and challenges that it faces) and why they started doing these podcasts.

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Samuel Fry speaks to Ben Templeton and Sam Howey Nunn, the team behind Artful Spark. For those that don't know, Artful Spark is a quarterly event series about boundary-defying work and cross-discipline collaboration, packed with tech demos, discussion and inspirational keynotes. The trio discuss digital culture, creating communities and some of Artful Spark's recent events.

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Samuel Fry speaks to Clara Crivellaro. Clara is a Research Fellow at Newcastle University. She is also part of the team behind 'Not Equal', a national network that aims to develop practical responses to issues of social justice in the design and use of digital technologies in our everyday lives.

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Richard Adams speaks to Nick Rothwell. Nick is a composer, performer, software architect, programmer and sound artist. He has worked with Ballett Frankfurt, Vienna Volksoper, Braunarts, Sonic Arts Network, TECHNE, Kinetica, STEIM, CAMAC, ZKM and many other artistic organisations.

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