Peckham Digital: Artist and Computer
Peckham Digital: Artist and Computer is a podcast exploring the evolving relationship between artists and technology. Inspired by Ruth Leavitt’s ground-breaking 1976 anthology Artist and Computer, the series revisits the original ten questions posed to early computer artists — asking a new generation how and why they use computers in their creative practice, what role technology plays in their work, and how they imagine its impact on the future of art. Each episode invites a contemporary artist or creative technologist to reflect on their practice and share how computers shape their ideas, methods, and creative outcomes. From coding and AI to performance, digital culture, and beyond, the series offers an intimate look at the ways technology continues to transform artmaking — and how artists, in turn, shape the digital futures we all inhabit. Produced by Peckham Digital, a not-for-profit dedicated to widening access to creative technology, Peckham Digital: Artist and Computer is both a li...
Episodes
In the final episode of Artist & Computer, Bea Taylor Searle speaks to Shaheer Tarar. A net-geo artist, graphic designer, and educator based in London. His practice digs into the socio-political narratives hidden within archives of text, images, and code, transforming them into publications, films, and experimental software. He’s currently a Lecturer in Computation at Central Saint Martins and a PhD candidate at the Unive...
In this episode of Artist and Computer, host Bea Taylor Searle speaks with Enorê, a Brazilian-born, London-based artist whose practice fluidly moves between digital and material realms.
Working with 3D-printed ceramics, textiles, and video, they investigate how digital data can become tangible: using clay’s fragility, imperfection, and temporality as a way to reimagine the slippery boundaries between virtual bodies and ...
In this episode of Artist and Computer, Bea Taylor Searle speaks to Maria Than, a designer, illustrator, creative technologist, educator and activist. She was the winner of Hotel Generation in 2024, a programme run by arebyte, and is currently an Adobe Creative Resident the Victoria & Albert Museum. Maria is also a member of Ricebox Studios alongside an incredibly talented team: Safiya, Maria, Bristy and Anna.
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In this episode of Artist and Computer, Bea Taylor Searle speaks to Helen Knowles, a multimedia artist and curator whose work is collaborative and thematically wide-reaching, exploring subjects from birth, to the economy, to artificial intelligence.
Helen is the director and curator of Birth Rites Collection, a collection of contemporary art on childbirth. She has exhibited at arebyte gallery, ZKM Karlusche, the Mori Art Museum in ...
In this episode of Artist and Computer, Bea Taylor Searle speaks to Vuk Cosic a retired net.artist and ASCII artist. He is best known as an internet art pioneer and author of numerous net.art projects. Outside of net.art he is active in the fields of literature, politics and media archaeology.
Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii.
Music by Ana-Maria Margarit.
In this episode of Artist and Computer, Bea Taylor Searle speaks to Erin Robinson, an award-winning, internationally recognised computational artist and researcher. Erin’s work explores authenticity, existence, and digital subjectivity by blurring the lines between organic and synthetic, reality and simulation, self and other. Listen to this episode to learn more about web scrapers, deepfakes and self-built dataset in artisti...
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.
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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.
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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 a...
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 ...
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&mda...
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, Choreogra...
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.
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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.
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