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Peckham Digital: Artist and Computer

Peckham Digital: Artist and Computer

Written by: Beatrice Taylor Searle
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Peckham Digital: Artist and Computer is a podcast exploring the evolving relationship between artists and technology. Inspired by Ruth Leavitt’s ground-breaking 1976 anthology Artist and Computer, the series revisits the original ten questions posed to early computer artists — asking a new generation how and why they use computers in their creative practice, what role technology plays in their work, and how they imagine its impact on the future of art.

Each episode invites a contemporary artist or creative technologist to reflect on their practice and share how computers shape their ideas, methods, and creative outcomes. From coding and AI to performance, digital culture, and beyond, the series offers an intimate look at the ways technology continues to transform artmaking — and how artists, in turn, shape the digital futures we all inhabit.

Produced by Peckham Digital, a not-for-profit dedicated to widening access to creative technology, Peckham Digital: Artist and Computer is both a li...

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Episodes
  • Episode 6: Jade Pughe and Computer

    Episode 6: Jade Pughe and Computer
    Jan 8 2026

    In this episode of Artist and Computer, Bea Taylor Searle talks to Jade Pughe, a creative technologist whose practice sits at the intersection of design, technology, and social impact. Learn about GitHub, electronics and games in the advertisement world.

    Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii.

    Music by Shaan Rehsi.
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    33 mins
  • Episode 5: Tigris Li and Computer

    Episode 5: Tigris Li and Computer
    Dec 18 2025

    In this episode of Artist and Computer, host Bea Taylor Searle speaks to Tigris Li, an artist and creative technologist whose work reimagines technology as a catalyst for meaningful human connection. Learn how Tigris stole remote controls from her parents hotel to make her first robots, how mine craft sparked her creativity and lots more!

    Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii.

    Music by Ella Wessendorff.
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    45 mins
  • Episode 4: Freddie Hong and Computer

    Episode 4: Freddie Hong and Computer
    Dec 4 2025

    In this episode, Bea Taylor Searle and Freddie Hong explore how computers fundamentally reshape the way artists and designers approach creative practice. Freddie reflects on how computational systems introduce new modes of thinking—shifting design from a purely manual process to one that is iterative, generative, and deeply entangled with software.

    The conversation also turns toward datasets and their temporal signatures—how the data we choose to train, shape, or inform our work can situate an artwork within a particular moment in time. From changing cultural references embedded in datasets to the evolving biases and structures of digital information, we unpack how these elements become part of an artwork’s context, meaning, and historical positioning.

    Together, these themes offer a nuanced look at how computational processes are not just technical systems, but active collaborators in contemporary creative practice.

    Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii.

    Music by Joey Zhou.

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    30 mins
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