Creative Women in Tech
19 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago -Welcome to Creative Women in Tech Podcast. Did you know Women in Tech make up only 5% leadership roles & under 20% of all working female artists in the UK are signed to music labels? Meet the womxn taking charge of their own unique paths.
Join WITCiH founder, BISHI in conversation with a woman in tech about her work, journey, life, & process. Presented by WITCIH, The Women in Technology Creative Industries Hub.
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Anil Sebastian
May 12, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 69 MBAnil Sebastian is a multifaceted artist, producer and vocalist producing some of the most unique and otherworldly music to emerge from the UK in recent years. As well as their solo identity, Anil Sebastian is also in Icelandic band Hrím, with singer Ösp and producer Cherif Hashizume. Sebastian is also the creative director of pioneering sonic branding agency DLMDD. Already a familiar face to many in the industry as co-founder and director of the legendary London Contemporary Voices Choi...
Betony Vernon
April 21, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 89.6 MB“Nothing reveals the functionality of the objects Betony Vernon designs. Yet, her works are at the service of the body, exacerbated, loved. Betony Vernon is invested in the field of erotic and sensual doing. The development of her work is multidisciplinary, spanning sessions of practical teaching and curative sharing, the writing of her book The Boudoir Bible currently translated in 7 languages and the design of sublime objects — jewels, sculpture, furniture, objets d’art — as well as happen...
Alex Box
March 24, 2021 02:00 - 56 minutes - 64.8 MBBe Genuine, Be Kind, Be Positive, Be Inspiring, Be Authentic. Dr Alex Box is an internationally renowned Artist who has redefined the role of creativity in Makeup and the future of Beauty and the Body. As a Futurist, her multidimensional approach has established her as a creator of a new visual language and dialogue that exists between the body and movement, artistic expression, technology and scientific enquiry. Her manifesto is to bring spiritual creative freedom and evoke the emot...
Gazelle Twin
March 03, 2021 03:00 - 40 minutes - 74.6 MBElizabeth Bernholz conceived the moniker Gazelle Twin in 2009 under which she has released the critically acclaimed albums; Pastoral (2018), Kingdom Come (2017), Unflesh (2014) and her debut, The Entire City (2011). Adopting a radical and conceptual approach to composition, fusing classical and early traditions with experimental, electronic production, Bernholz always strives for “challenging outcomes”. Her work is often presented through extraordinary live performances, which feature chang...
Adah Parris
February 17, 2021 02:00 - 43 minutes - 49.4 MBFuturist, Systems Thinker, Storyteller and Artist. Chair of Mental Health First Aid England (MHFA UK). Currently Artist in Residence at The Design Science Studio (Buckminster Fuller Institute) and The University of California Irvine. An enthusiastic curator of people, patterns and stories. In 2020, I was long-listed as one of the Most Influential Women in UK Technology. In 2019, I was recognised as one of TED Talks Global Emerging Innovators. In 2018, I was recognised as one of ...
Violeta Vicci
February 03, 2021 02:00 - 49 minutes - 91.4 MBVioleta Vicci is a multifaceted, contemporary artist and musician. Of Catalan - Swiss descent, based in London, she feels comfortable genre-crossing from Classical to Improvisation, Ethno Avantgarde, Ambient, Multilayered Electronics, her influences ranging from traditional to pop. Since starting the violin at the age of four, and giving her concert debut aged fifteen, she pursued studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Her collaborations include Thom Yorke, Elbow, Clint Mansell, Jo...
Aphra Shemza
December 16, 2020 03:00 - 37 minutes - 51.2 MBAphra Shemza is a London-based multimedia artist. She is the granddaughter of the well-known abstract painter Anwar Jalal Shemza. Inspired by her grandfather, her work explores Modernism, her Islamic cultural heritage, sustainable practice and creating art for all. As an artist and activist, she finds ambitious ways to fuse methodologies from the past with new innovations in technology to imagine what the role of art could be in the future. Shemza combines abstraction with traditional sculpt...
Hinako Omori
December 09, 2020 03:00 - 35 minutes - 49.2 MBHinako Omori is a Japanese musician and producer based in London. Initially training to be a sound engineer at the University of Surrey, Hinako leapt into music full time as a keyboard player and programmer - some of the artists she has worked with include EOB (Ed O’Brien), Georgia, Kae Tempest, KT Tunstall, James Bay and Sophie Hunger. Debut EP ‘Auraelia’ was released on Injazero Records in November 2019 – evolving from a hard drive of instrumental demos, lyrics and field recordings...
Lia Mice
December 02, 2020 03:00 - 22 minutes - 41.1 MBLia Mice is a multidisciplinary artist whose works range from live A/V performance, composition, instrument design, and interactive sculpture to academic papers. In her practice, Mice uses new technologies to explore relationships between the musical instrument and embodied performance. Mice's all-hardware live A/V sets incorporate large scale self-designed instruments, live voice sampling, dancers and audio-reactive visuals. Her instruments and interactive sonic sculptures have been exhibit...
Nwando Ebizie
November 25, 2020 03:00 - 38 minutes - 70.1 MBNwando works across media, genre and artforms creating mythopoetic metanarratives and alternate realities. Her work is a drawing together of the pieces that she is in a frozen moment of ever-living infinite regress. Always political and grounded in a mytho-scientific perspective she invites viewers and participants to join her at the Crossroads. At the crossroads where you can choose to pass through the cosmic mirror and touch alternate realities. The realities of what could have been an...
Anna Meredith
November 18, 2020 03:00 - 42 minutes - 77.5 MBDescribed by Pitchfork as ‘one of the most innovative voices in British music’, Anna Meredith is a genre-crossing composer and producer whose work straddles the worlds of contemporary classical, art pop, electronica and experimental rock. Alongside the release of her award-winning debut album, Varmints (2016) and critically acclaimed follow up FIBS (2019, nominated for the Mercury Prize 2020 and the SAY Award 2020), Anna’s CV includes scoring for TV (2019 ‘Living With Yourself’, Netflix)...
Creative Women In Tech: Series 2 Trailer
November 13, 2020 03:00 - 54 seconds - 1.04 MBThis is the trailer for the forthcoming 'Creative Women in Tech Podcast': Series 2, hosted by BISHI. This series features interviews from Anna Meredith, Nwando Ebizie, Hinako Omori, Aphra Shemza & Lia Mice exploring their extraordinary cross-disciplinary projects combining music, art & technology at their heart. Please sign up for our monthly newsletter at WITCiH
Hannah Peel
July 01, 2020 01:30 - 37 minutes - 86.3 MBHere's the full interview with Hannah Peel. Produced by Chalk & Blade. Emmy-nominated and RTS winning composer, with a flow of solo albums and collaborative releases, Hannah joins the dots between science, nature and the creative arts, through her explorative approach to electronic, classical, and traditional music. http://www.hannahpeel.com/about-hannah/ https://www.facebook.com/HannahPeelMusic https://twitter.com/Hanpeel https://soundcloud.com/hannahpeel http://instagram.com/hannahpe...
Hannah Peel Teaser
June 24, 2020 01:00 - 15 minutes - 17.8 MBThis episode was my first foray into podcasting. It was SO good, that I've decided to release it in two sections. This particular episode was produced by Chalk & Blade. Emmy-nominated and RTS winning composer, with a flow of solo albums and collaborative releases, Hannah joins the dots between science, nature and the creative arts, through her explorative approach to electronic, classical and traditional music. http://www.hannahpeel.com/about-hannah/ https://www.facebook.com/HannahPeelMus...
Abi Wade
June 17, 2020 02:00 - 31 minutes - 35.8 MBCellist, pianist and vocalist Abi Wade creates music that melds electronica, acoustic and pop music. Classically trained, she utilizes a mix of traditional and experimental techniques in her performances, commanding electric drums and triggers at her feet whilst singing and simultaneously layering melodic cello and synth lines. Her debut LP ‘Beautifully Astray’ was released in April 2018 with support from the PRS for Music Foundation’s Women Make Music award. Visuals for the release have be...
Laura Kriefman
May 27, 2020 01:00 - 30 minutes - 34.9 MBThe first interview in the series is with Laura Kriefman. Laura Kriefman is the Director, Producer and Artist behind Hellion Trace and has over a decade of experience delivering interdisciplinary projects worldwide that fuse the performing arts and creative technology. Her expertise in these areas has been recognised by numerous international fellowships including: Questlab Artist in Residence with Wayne McGregor, 2018 Mozilla XR Studio Fellow, PRS Female Innovator in Music (keychange.eu...
Lula XYZ
May 27, 2020 01:00 - 32 minutes - 37.4 MBHabesha by way of London, lula.xyz (Lula Mebrahtu) is the vanguard of creative expression. Equipped with cutting edge technology MiMu Gloves and a soulful timbre which carries the weight of her heritage, lula.xyz makes levitation through sound waves possible, singing about a lived experience of the past, present, and future. In this interview, Lula XYZ & BISHI sit down to talk about life, art, the journey through tech & what it means to be a ‘An Immigrant girl in a Digital World.’ https://...
Di Mainstone
May 27, 2020 01:00 - 20 minutes - 23.5 MBArtist & Movician, Di Mainstone creates sonic sculptures, that extend from the body and trigger sound via movement… The New York Times has featured Di Mainstone as one of the “new generation visionaries” of the international digital arts scene. A global ambassador for audio brand Sennheiser, Di Mainstone is artist in residence at Queen Mary University London where she collaborates with researchers from the Centre for Digital Music and Media Arts & Technology group, to develop new musical i...
Creative Women in Tech Trailer
May 11, 2020 15:23 - 2 minutes - 6.19 MBThis is the trailer for the forthcoming 'Creative Women in Tech Podcast,' hosted by BISHI. This series features interviews from Hannah Peel, Laura Kriefman, Lula XYZ, Di Mainstone & Abi Wade exploring their extraordinary cross-disciplinary projects combining music, art & technology at their heart. Please sign up for our monthly newsletter at WITCiH