Beatie Wolfe

Artist, Environmentalist, Technologist

”Musical weirdo and visionary" Beatie Wolfe is an artist who has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN Women role model for innovation, and held an acclaimed solo exhibition of her ‘world first’ album designs at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Named by WIRED Magazine as one of "22 people changing the world,” Wolfe is at the forefront of pioneering new formats for music that bridge the physical and digital, which include: a 3D theatre for the palm of your hand; a wearable record jacket - cut by Bowie/Hendrix’s tailor out of fabric woven with Wolfe’s music; an ‘anti-stream’ from the quietest room on earth and a space broadcast via the Big Bang horn. Wolfe's latest innovation is an environmental protest piece built using 800,000 years of our planet’s climate data, which premiered at the Nobel Prize Summit, the London Design Biennale and COP26. Wolfe is also the co-founder of a “profound” (The Times) research project looking at the power of music for people living with dementia. The Barbican recently commissioned a documentary about Beatie Wolfe's work and approach.

TEDMED 2020 (SPEAKER) // In Boston MA, Beatie share’s her pioneering Power of Music & Dementia work that was the first to look at the power of music unconnected to memory for people living with dementia. Watch: www.tedmed.com/talks/show?id=772445 .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. TED Women 2021 (MasterClass) // In Palm Springs CA, Beatie gave a MasterClass: titled "Activating Awareness: The Power of Art" on how to make vast and abstract data around global issues feel relatable, evocative, and inspire change. .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. TED Women 2021 (Installation) // Beatie's stirring environmental art piece about human impact on the planet, built using 800,000 years of historic NASA data had a special showing at TED Women. “From Green to Red” (taken from the title of a song Wolfe wrote in 2006 after seeing ‘An Inconvenient Truth') tracks the impact of human behavior on the planet, creating a stirring visualization of the CO2 concentration in the Earth’s atmosphere, and asks us the question is it too late to turn back? .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. See all Beatie Wolfe x TED moments: www.beatiewolfe.com/ted