Julie Freeman

Julie Freeman works with natural living systems and emergent technologies. Her large-scale installations, sound sculptures, and online artworks have, since the early 1990s, pioneered her conceptual and critical approach to working with sound and real-time data as living and malleable art materials.

Julie has shown work at leading institutions including the V&A, the ICA, Modern Art Oxford, the Barbican, and the Science Museum, as well as internationally. She has been recognized by organizations including the BBC, The Guardian, and New Scientist. Julie founded the Open Data Institute’s art program ‘Data as Culture’ in 2012. She is a TED Fellow, co-founder of Fine Acts, and runs Translating Nature, a digital and data art studio. Julie is the inventor of Sonaforms® – sculptural sonic furniture that offers a new way to experience sound through touch.

www.translatingnature.org

About the role

Julie Freeman is creating sonic sculptures, inspired by her recent field trip to Svalbard in the Arctic. The work responds to the recent uptake in generative and predictive AI usage and the urgent need to draw awareness to its ecological implications and responsible alternatives.

Contact: braid@ed.ac.uk