IAM Weekend 18: the speakers
The digital learning coordinator at University of the Arts London, Charlotte Webb is interested in artistic authorship and how the dominant voices in technology and coding disrupt it. She’s also the “chief leopard” of Feminist Internet, a gender equality movement using the internet to challenge patriarchal structure in education, domestic spaces, companies and on the streets.
A Detroit-based artist using sculpture, sound, site-specific installation and performance, Ingrid LaFleur is a also the founder of Afrotopia, a creative research practice that investigates the role of technology within Black American socio-political movements. She’s an expert in Afrofuturism, and has curated numerous exhibitions on the topic as well as organising the Afrofuturism Film Series at the Detroit Film Theatre.
Existing in the zeros and ones of the virtual space, artist and curator LaTurbo Avedon is an avatar whose practice aims to explore authorship and non-physical identity. They run Panther Modern, a file-based exhibition space that encourages artists to create site-specific installations for the internet, and has even given talks and gallery tours in Second Life.
Working in the fascinating intersection between data, civil rights, information security, environmental conservation and the art world, Ian Ardouin-Fumat is a technologist and creative coder. He frequently works with non-profits, universities and news organisations and in his spare time investigates how peer-to-peer networks can cultivate political agency.
Turkish-born artist Pinar Yoldas explores the intersection between biological sciences and digital technologies using architecture, kinetic sculptures, sound and video to explore the issues of the Anthropocene. With interests in posthumanism, eco-nihilism and feminist technoscience, Pinar’s work looks at the disastrous human influence on ecosystems and imagines alternative futures. She also held her first solo painting exhibition when she was five.
If you’re yet to go to an event at Somerset House Studios, then drop what you’re doing an seek one out now. As director, Marie McPartlin is the mastermind behind this melting pot of artists, designers, musicians, film-makers and other creative practitioners, building it into one of the most exciting arts spaces in the capital.
Juliette Lizotte
French graphic designer and video maker Juliette Lizotte is the co-founder of collective Goys & Birls. Its project NXS is a publication that explores the idea of the self in the internet age. Juliette is also involved with the We are Here Academy where she introduces refugees to photo and video editing and also trains children in video editing around the world.
An Indie CGI artist whose work explores software in contemporary culture, Alan honed his craft creating commercial visual effects and working in the animation industry. We love his video essay on the uncanny valley and the future CGI.
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