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.

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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.

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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.

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