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About Me

Julie Freeman is an artist whose work spans visual, audio and digital art forms, and explores how we perceive the relationship between technology, science and nature. She is passionate about understanding the less obvious elements of our world, and about how art can incorporate science and technology to inform our perspective of these unseen layers. Often working collaboratively, she experiments in transforming complex processes and data sets into sound compositions, objects and animations.

Based in the UK, Julie is a NESTA Fellow, a Wellcome Trust Arts awardee, and a board member of MzTEK.org. She is currently artist-not-often-in-residence at Cranfield University's Microsystems and Nanotechnology Centre. And a PhD candidate on the Media and Arts Technology, Queen Mary University of London.

Location:
United Kingdom, London
Current organization:
Queen Mary University of London
Past organizations:
Seed Media Group, MzTEK
Current role:
Artist
Gender:
Female
I am:
Artist, Brainstormer, Change Agent, Concerned citizen, Connector, Consultant, Environmentalist, Idea generator, Student, Technologist
My website links:
Translating Nature, In Particular, The Observatories
Universities:
Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, Middlesex University
TED conferences attended:
TED2013, TEDGlobal 2011
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Data as art, data in art. Creative technologies. Artist scientist collaborations. How nature inspires us.

People don't know that I'm good at

Cold water swimming. I'm a UK Cold Water Swimming Champion - silver medalist (2011) at 3.5•C.
I also make a mean vodka and lemon risotto. And an outstanding lemon sponge souffle.

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    A comment on Talk: Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously

    Jun 21 2011: This is a great story - Janet's work is beautiful. It is also great to hear an artist talk about the practical problems and solutions so freely; Janet is unafraid to take the oft perceived 'magic' away from her work. Technology - in this case software - is helping artists achieve the most spectacular work, and I think it's important (and interesting) to acknowledge that.
    Inspiring.

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