Residency directors Andrew McWilliams & Ellen Pearlman, along with current resident hannes bends, shared their experiences at a special event for this year’s Creative Tech Week in New York. You can watch video of the talks below.

The speakers gave insights into working with blood-glucose levels, brainwaves, and meditation and breath inside VR. In the talks they also discuss the future of the physical body and immersive art practices.

Thoughtworks Arts has an open call out now for artists and technologists investigating the implications of Artificial Intelligence for society today.

AI has incredible potential to automate all kinds of decision-making, and revolutionize industries. However, because of the way in which AI systems are trained, they can also automate and amplify human biases in ways their designers do not intend.

Our latest artist-in-residence, hannes bend, has started with us on the Arts Residency program this week.

hannes recently created one of the first Virtual Reality programs with heart-rate biofeedback in collaboration with Neuroscience and Quantum Physics Alemán Lab, University of Oregon.

In the weeks leading up to yesterday’s spectacular announcement of the commutation of Chelsea Manning’s sentence, Chelsea was collaborating with resident artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg and illustrator Shoili Kanungo on a graphic short story.

The story documents the process by which, in 2015, Heather created a unique portrait of Manning from a sample of DNA, giving a form visibility back to the whistleblower who had been hidden in incarceration for years.

The final pane of the graphic story was a speculative twist in which Manning was freed—a twist that has now come true.

A couple of weeks ago, I had a small computer chip implanted in my left hand, between my thumb and my finger. I ordered the chip from the website Dangerous Things.

The chip is a 12mm x 2mm Near Field Communication (NFC) tag inside a glass cylinder, delivered via a sterile syringe. NFC is the technology known for it’s use in contactless payment, but can be used to wirelessly transmit data of any kind.

I never knew that one day I would be part of a project to develop new human senses — but here I am. I’ve spent the last six months working with the Cyborg Foundation on their Thoughtworks Arts Residency project.

In this post I want to explain what I learned about materials and wearable devices, in the context of experimental new forms of human-computer interaction.

We are pleased to welcome our second resident artist, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, who will be with us over the next four months.

Heather is an artist and researcher known for her work highlighting the implications of DNA as readily-available data, including genetic surveillance and new forms of racial stereotyping.