Julie Freeman

Artist, Brainstormer, Change Agent, Concerned citizen, Consultant, Idea generator, Producer, Scientist, Technologist

Julie Freeman is an artist, researcher, and curator who explores the intersection of art, technology, and nature through her innovative projects. She is the co-founder of Translating Nature, an art and design studio that creates immersive installations and artworks using real-time data as a living art material. Julie's work involves translating complex processes and data into interactive installations, animations, sculptures, and sound compositions, challenging traditional boundaries in art and technology. With a background in digital and data art, she collaborates with various partners, researchers, and artists to produce thought-provoking pieces that offer new ways of experiencing and understanding the living systems around us.

using living things - animals, microbes, weather, people - to create work that is as alive as we are.

Through touch, sound, and visual experiences, we can use data in different ways that help us connect to each other and to the planet.

AI and art, Art & science collaborations, Art and human rights activism, Bringing artists into organisations, Data Art, Decarbonizing tech, Kinetic sculpture, Low carbon web, Off-grid power, Responsible technology

A TED fellow since 2011, and a senior fellow since 2013. Her art work www.weneedus.org was launched at TEDGlobal2014

Cold water swimming. I'm a UK Cold Water Swimming Championships silver medalist. Netball 💪🏻