Peckham Digital: Artist and Computer

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.

In this episode of Artist and Computer, host Bea Taylor Searle speaks with Arda Awais, one half of Identity2.0, a creative studio imaging better digital futures. Reminisce creating works of art on paint in the computer room, discover how Arda and Savena joined forces to create Identity2.0 and learn how to divide and conquer as a process of researching for a project!    Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii. Music by Joey Zhou.

In this episode of Artist and Computer, host Bea Taylor Searle speaks with Tanya Boyarkina and Oscar Cass-Darweish, a collective for digital art, curation, and critical technical practice, implemented in institutional and alternative spaces. Discover the how open-source technologies can be used in fun and playful ways that allows us to question everyday technologies, hear about the importance about Arts Council England recognising Digital Arts as an artform for DYCP applications and reflect on how analogue technologies can critique digital ones.   Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii. Music by Nell Lang.

In this episode of Artist and Computer, host Bea Taylor Searle speaks with Licia He, a generative artist and a human-computer interaction researcher dedicated to creating artistic expressions through technological innovations. Discover the world of robotics and pen plotters through Licia's creative practice!    Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii. Music by Jalisa Abeid.

In this episode of Artist and Computer, Bea Taylor Searle speaks to Olia Lialina, a visionary internet artist and theorist who has shaped how we think about art on the web. In this episode discover how a film curator became a leading figure in the net.art movement, fall in love with HTML and think about your online presence outside of Instagram. Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii. Music by On Daydreaming Leave.

In this episode of Artist and Computer, Bea Taylor Searle talks to Jade Pughe, a creative technologist whose practice sits at the intersection of design, technology, and social impact. Learn about GitHub, electronics and games in the advertisement world. Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii. Music by Shaan Rehsi.

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!  Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii. 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. Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii. Music by Joey Zhou. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Nina references working with Jorge Poveda Yanez At minute 21, Bea completely butchers her reference what she was talking about was Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz's artwork a Hole In Space: A Public Communication Sculpture made in 1980. Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii. Music by Ana-Maria Margarit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii. Music by Andres Martinez. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii. Music by Nell Lang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii. Music by Joey Zhou. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.