ART // TECH // PLAY - Mark Faird, Artist and Fine Art Lecturer
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ART // TECH // PLAY Industry Insights are a series of online sessions aimed at designers, artists, and creative entrepreneurs in the Eastern region. Chaired by arts & tech organisation, Collusion, each one-hour session will feature a different guest artist or creative industry professional talking about their career - what they do, how they got there and a bit about the projects they are working on, plus an audience Q&A managed via the chat. The series is part of Platform and the Creative Unlimited Covid Recovery Programme.
This week we will be speaking to... Mark Faird
Mark Farid is an Artist, and Lecturer in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, specialising in the intersection of the virtual and physical world, and the effect of new technologies on the individual and their sense of self. Farid’s work embodies hacker ethics, such as privacy policies, use of surveillance technologies, data privacy and protection, and the critique of social, legal, and political models.
http://www.markfarid.com/
Who are Collusion?
Collusion is a Cambridge-based arts+tech company led by Rachel Drury and Rich Hall, working at the intersection of art, technology, and human interaction. We use technology to create new experimental public space spanning physical and digital realms. Our work is typically playful and experimental, with a focus on artist development, place and engaging new audiences and participants with creative technology. www.collusion.org.uk