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1 | Agnes Fury Cameron | Agnes Cameron is an artist and engineer based in London, UK. She works with hardware and software, and has a particular interest in simulation, knowledge systems, and the web. She builds tools for open data curation and sharing, and is a specialist technican and lecturer at UAL's Creative Computing Institute. She was a founding member of the research studio Foreign Objects, and directs the community interest company Inflationary Assets. This format was inspired by similar CV sheets by Laurel Schwulst, Mindy Seu and Benjamin Earl. | 1994 | Brighton, UK | https://agnescameron.info/ | agnesfcameron@protonmail.com | |||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Work | Creative Computing Institute, UAL | Specialist Technician and Associate Lecturer | November 2021 - | London, UK | Specialist in electronics, programming and e-textiles, support for students and researchers. Currently developing open-source software for domestic knitting machines. I lecture primarily on the Diploma in Creative Computing. | https://www.arts.ac.uk/creative-computing-institute | ||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Innovation Information Initiative | Steering Comittee Member | 2024 | Remote | Organising I3 fellows program, and continued development of the I3 Open Innovation Dataset Index | https://iii.pubpub.org/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Freelance | Technical Consultant | 2019 - | currently: London, UK past: New York, NY | Development of novel hardware and software for artists, performers, game designers and researchers. Clients include Agnieszka Kurant, Cici Wu, Moving Castles, Karole Armitage and the National Bureau for Economic Research. | https://agnescameron.info/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Inflationary Assets CIC | Director | 2024 - | London, UK | Community interest company that runs inflatable architecture workshops | https://inflationaryassets.com/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Foreign Objects | co-Founder | 2019 - 2022 | International | Design and research studio that works with the web | https://www.foreignobjects.net/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Knowledge Futures Group | Software Developer | 2020-2023 | Remote | Worked with the Information Innovation Initiative, and on other projects relating to the design of open and collaborative knowledge systems. | https://www.knowledgefutures.org/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
8 | MIT Museum Studio | Technician | Winter 2019 | Cambridge, MA | support technician for the Vision in Art and Neuroscience Class, taught by Seth Riskin | https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/more/mit-museum-studio-and-compton-gallery | |||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Microsoft Research Cambridge | Biocomputing Group, Research Software Engineering Intern | Summer 2017 | Cambridge, UK | software development on the Reasoning Engine for Interaction Networks tool | ||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge | Computer Security Group, Undergraduate Researcher (UROP) | Summer 2015 | Cambridge, UK | hardware development for the Pico project | ||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Teaching | Chelsea College of Art, UAL | BA Textile Design | Spring 2025 | London, UK | visiting lecture on e-textiles and electronics | |||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Creative Computing Institute, UAL | MSc Creative Computing | Spring 2025 | visiting lecture on version control | |||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | MA Internet Equalities | Spring 2025 | visiting lectures on databases and open knowledge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Creative Practice (Diploma in Creative Computing) | Autumn 2024 | course leader: Murad Khan. Co-teaching with Irtiza Nazar, Kevin Lee, Giulio Ammendola and Will Westwood | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Critical Infrastructures (Diploma in Creative Computing) | Spring 2024 | co-teaching with Murad Khan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Cognitive Systems (Diploma in Creative Computing) | Autumn 2023 | co-teaching with Murad Khan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Critical Infrastructures (Diploma in Creative Computing) | Spring 2023 | course leader: Murad Khan. Co-teaching with Tom Keene, Irtiza Nazar and Tom Barling Gasson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Python Jumpstart (MSc Computing in the Creative Industries) | Summer 2022, Summer 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Python Catch-Up (BSc Creative Computing) | Summer 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | CUNY Hunter College | Advanced Web Programming (Film and Media) | Spring 2020 | NYC | https://webdevelopm.net/hunter/index.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Parsons College of Design | Web Development Lab (BA Communication Design) | Spring 2020 | NYC | studio component taught by Gary Zhexi Zhang | https://webdevelopm.net/parsons/index.html | |||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Exhibitions / Performances | Avalon Café | More Roar! (Launch Party) | Spring 2025 | London, UK | series of performances to officially launch More Roar synthesiser | https://moreroar.org | ||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Stadtpark Graz | More Roar! | Spring 2025 | Graz, Austria | performing with Jonathan Richards of the Dirty Electronics Ensemble, as part of Ultrablack Non-ference of Mille Plateaux | https://non-milleplateaux.de/ultrablack-non-ference-of-mille-plateaux-program/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
24 | The White Hotel | Valves | Autumn 2024 | Manchester, UK | valve synthesiser comission and performance with the Commission for New and Old Art | https://statmagazine.org/staging-england/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Paradise Palms | More Roar! @ Nonclassical Birthday Party | Autumn 2024 | London, UK | performing with Jonathan Richards of the Dirty Electronics Ensemble, by invitation of the Nonclassical record label | https://www.nonclassical.co.uk/events/20th-birthday-party | |||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Inspace Gallery | Articulating Data | May 2023 | Edinburgh, UK | exhibiting Working Group | https://working-group.net/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Mecklenburgh Square Gardens | Blue Sky Gardening: an exhibition of garden proposals and proposition | Summer 2021 | London, UK | exhibiting simulation work Future Gardens | https://futuregardens.org.uk/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
28 | El Museo de la Filatelia | Cartografías Ocultas | Summer 2021 | Oaxaca, Mexico | exhibiting collaborative work Transparencia Index, with Federico Perez Villoro | https://transparenciaindex.mx/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Bloc Projects | The First 10,000 Years | October 2020 | Online | collaboration with Gary Zhexi Zhang | https://fud.global/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Schloss Solitude | Our Loves are Not Only Human | Autumn 2019 | Stuttgart, Germany | exhibiting collaborative work Permaculture Network, with Gary Zhexi Zhang | https://root.schloss-post.com/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Fellowships / Grants / Residencies | Bellingcat | Tech Fellowship | Summer 2024 | Online | 3-month technical writing project on the use of diverse satellite imaging datasets and remote sensing indices | https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2025/01/10/satellite-imagery-bands-guide/ | ||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Autonomous Worlds Network | Research Microgrant | Winter 2023 | Berlin, Germany | Collaboration with Manus Nijhoff, Jacob Willemsma and Ed Fornieles | https://aw.network/primitives/primitive-sentences | |||||||||||||||||||||
33 | 0xPARC | Community Grant | Spring 2023 | Berlin, Germany | development of a worldbuilding game to launch the Autonomous Worlds Weekend | ||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Delfina Foundation | Resident, Politics of Food Programme | Autumn 2022 | London, UK | project around agrarianism and revolutionary movements, work ongoing | ||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Somerset House Studios | Resident | 2020-2022 | London, UK | |||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | New INC | Resident | 2019-2020 | NYC | as Foreign Objects | ||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Signal Culture | Toolmaker in Residence | Autumn 2019 | Owego, NY | |||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Schloss Solitude | Web Resident | Summer 2019 | Online | part of Rigged Systems, curated by Jonas Lund, with Gary Zhexi Zhang | ||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Sakiya Foundation | Resident Fellow | Summer 2019 | Ein Qiniya, Palestine | |||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Pioneer Works | Participant, 4th Collaborative Workshop on Modelling Collective Behaviour | Summer 2019 | Brooklyn, NY | |||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Winston Churchill Memorial Trust | Research Fellow | Summer 2016 | Shanghai, China | research project on women in new media technology | ||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | Awards / Scholarships | Mozilla Foundation | Creative Media Award | 2019 | Online | project: Bot or Not, as Foreign Objects | https://botor.no/ | ||||||||||||||||||||
43 | MIT Office of the Dean | Graduate Woman of Excellence Award | 2019 | Cambridge, MA | |||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | MIT Karmel Writing Prizes | Honorable Mention, Obermayer Prize for Writing for the Public | 2019 | Cambridge, MA | Hiding in Plain Sight | ||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | First Place, Boit Prize for Engineering Writing | 2018 | Termite-inspired techniques for decentralised street planning | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | First Place, Obermayer Prize for Writing for the Public | 2018 | Inventing Nothing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Joint First Place, Obermayer Prize for Writing on the History of Innovation | 2018 | Disruptive Hardware in Southern China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Council for the Arts at MIT | Arts Scholarship | 2017-2019 | Cambridge, MA | https://arts.mit.edu/start/arts-scholars/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | King's College, University of Cambridge | John Rose Prize for the best explanation of a scientific principle of general interest | 2016 | Cambridge, UK | Holograms | ||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Second Place, James Essay Prize | 2015 | Inventing Nothing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Institute of Mechanical Engineers | National Undergraduate Scholarship | 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Institute of Engineering and Technology | Diamond Jubilee Scholarship | 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Workshops | Peckham Digital | More Roar! | July 2024 | London, UK | DIY synth-building workshop with John Richards of the Dirty Electronics ensemble | https://www.peckhamdigital.org/events/2024/saturday/more_roar/ | ||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Somerset House, Morgan Stanley Lates | Inflate That! | April 2024 | London, UK | interactive inflatable making workshop as part of large live-art event | ||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Association of Fashion and Textiles | Knitted Synthesisers | March 2024 | London, UK | invited by Caryn Simonson and Claire Anderson, on behalf of the UAL Smart Textiles Lab | ||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Chelsea College of Art | Knitted Synthesisers | January 2024 | London, UK | invited by Claire Anderson, with Murad Khan, Lexin Zhou and Valinnie Crasto | ||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Camberwell College of Art (BFA Computational Arts) | Inflate That! | May 2023 | London, UK | 2-day inflatable sculpture workshop | ||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Camberwell College of Art (BFA Graphic Design) | Knitted Synthesisers | April 2023 | London, UK | invited by Eva Sajovic and B Claxton, as part of the Hack'n the Knit Workshops | ||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Creative Computing Institute | Generative Embroidery With PEMbroider | April 2023 | London, UK | intro to the open-source embroidery tool | https://wiki.cci.arts.ac.uk/books/facilities/page/workshop-generative-embroidery-with-pembroider | |||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Delfina Foundation | Agrarianism and Revolution Reading Group Public Session | November 2022 | London, UK | with Åsa Sonjasdotter and the Agrarianism and Revolution Reading Group | ||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Somerset House Studios | Inflate That! | Summer 2022 | London, UK | 1-day inflatable sculpture workshop | ||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | Akademie Schloss Solitude | Food Texture Modification | Spring 2022 | Stuttgart, Germany | With Gary Zhexi Zhang. Part of the Fragile Solidarity, Fragile Connections festival | ||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Camberwell College of Art (BFA Computational Arts) | Inflate That! | May 2022 | London, UK | 1-day inflatable sculpture workshop | ||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | FABRICA | Inflate That! | December 2021 | Treviso, Italy | 3-day inflatable sculpture workshop | ||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | CSV Conf V6 | Data Collaboratives in Practice | May 2021 | Online | with SJ Klein | ||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | Decentralized Web Summit | Internet as a City | Summer 2018 | San Francisco, CA | as Foreign Objects | ||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | MIT Media Lab | How To Blockchain Almost Anything | Summer 2018 | Cambridge, MA | |||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | Talks / Interviews | Centre for Creative Technologies Annual Lecture | This Is A Temporal Landscape | Jun 2025 | Bristol, UK | Performance lecture with Lola Olufemi, by invitation of Katy Dadacz | https://www.tickettailor.com/events/universityofbristol54/1670334 | ||||||||||||||||||||
69 | Imperial College London, Augmented Instruments Lab | More Roar! | May 2025 | London, UK | By invitation of Dr Andrew McPherson, with John Richards | https://instrumentslab.org/news/2025/05/14/seminar-series-009.html | |||||||||||||||||||||
70 | SOAS Gender Studies | This Is A Temporal Landscape | Feb 2025 | London, UK | Performance lecture with Lola Olufemi, presenting our work together on This Is A Temporal Landscape, an archival website, by invitation of Abeera Khan | https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/temporal-landscape | |||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Edinburgh Winter School | Many Ways to do the Same Thing | Jan 2025 | Edinburgh, UK | talk on CCI Tech Skills Workshops, as part of an event organised by Edinburgh's Pair Programming group | https://pairprogramming.ed.ac.uk/winter-school-25/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
72 | Naive Yearly | Desire Landscapes | Sep 2024 | Ljubjana, Slovenia | Invited by Kristoffer Tjalve | ||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Dark Properties | Sensing The Earth | Aug 2024 | Online | Interviewed by Meg Miller | https://dark.properties/sensing-the-earth/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
74 | LEGO Creative Play Lab | Composable Worlds | Mar 2024 | London, UK | Invited by Daniel Winger, Joao Wilbert and Laura Dowell Ballesta | ||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | NBER Technical Working Group Annual Meeting | Indexing Validation Data | Dec 2023 | Cambridge, MA | Talk on IIIndex project | https://iiindex.org/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Autonomous Worlds Assembly | Production Circuits as Composable Game Loop | Nov 2023 | Istanbul, Turkey | with Arthur Röing Baer | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmsmfFybfIo | |||||||||||||||||||||
77 | Colloquies for Transgenerational Collaboration, CMU | Systems Thinking: Tooling, Agency and Pedagogy | Oct 2023 | Pittsburgh, PA | In conversation with TJ McLeish | ||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Articulating Data Conference | Conversational Agency | May 2023 | Edinburgh, UK | Invited talk as participating artist | ||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | The Word Bookshop, Goldsmiths | Cyberfeminism Index (respondent) | Jan 2023 | London, UK | In conversation with Mindy Seu | ||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | Akademie Schloss Solitude | Soft Bread, Hard Times | May 2022 | Stuttgart, Germany | With Gary Zhexi Zhang. Part of the Fragile Solidarity, Fragile Connections festival | ||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Printed Matter | Parasitic Research and Access to Information | February 2022 | Online | with Federico Pérez Villoro and Tiger Dingsun | ||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Trust | Runescape Economics | October 2021 | Online | Invited by Arthur Röing Baer as part of the New Stack research programme | https://trust.support/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
83 | Serpentine Gallery | Panellist, Aesthetics of New AI Interfaces | February 2021 | Online | invited by Eva Jaeger and Mercedes Bunz, on behalf of the Serpentine Creative AI Lab | ||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | New Museum | An Introduction to the Bell System | February 2021 | Online | as Foreign Objects, part of the Experiments in Art and Technology programme, invited by Rhizome | https://www.foreignobjects.net/bell-system | |||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Bloc Projects | Risk, Simulation and the Catastrophe Industry | November 2020 | Online | talk with Gary Zhexi Zhang | ||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Bauhaus 100 Kolloquium | Panellist, Designs for a World to Come | Spring 2019 | Weimar, Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | MIT LIST Visual Arts Center | Visible Secrecy | Winter 2018 | Cambridge, MA | |||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | Cambridge Science Festival | Organised Radical Technology panel series | 2017 | Cambridge, UK | Talk series on feminism and technology, including panels on feminist cybersecurity, sex and race. Funded by the CUSU Women's Campaign | ||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | Writing / Publications | Orpheus Instituut, ECHO Journal | New Sounds | June 2025 | Online | Artist statement, by invitation of Roberto Trillo and Marek Poliks | https://echo.orpheusinstituut.be/article/new-sounds | ||||||||||||||||||||
90 | Are.na Editorial | What Can An Image Do? | April 2025 | Online | comissioned for Naive Yearly 2024 | https://www.are.na/editorial/what-can-an-image-do | |||||||||||||||||||||
91 | Bellingcat | A Beginner's Guide to Seeing More With Satellite Imagery | January 2025 | Online | supported by technical writing fellowship | https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2025/01/10/satellite-imagery-bands-guide/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
92 | Book chapter: Autonomous Worlds Symposium | A Chatroom With Legs | March 2023 | Berlin, Germany | comissioned by 0xParc and Arthur Röing Baer | https://aw.network/posts/chatroom-with-legs | |||||||||||||||||||||
93 | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2022 | Infrastructure for 21st Century Science | December 2022 | Chicago, IL | McGranaghan et. al (multiple authors) | https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022AGUFMSH56A..02M/abstract | |||||||||||||||||||||
94 | Are.na Blog | Food Ontologies | January 2022 | Online | Invited by Meg Miller | https://www.are.na/blog/on-food-ontologies | |||||||||||||||||||||
95 | Are.na Annual | Of All Their Possible Variations | January 2022 | NYC, and online | https://www.are.na/blog/of-all-their-possible-variations | ||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2021 | Toward a Heliophysics Knowledge Commons | December 2021 | New Orleans, LA | McGranaghan et. al (multiple authors) | https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021AGUFMIN52A..05M/abstract | |||||||||||||||||||||
97 | Proceedings of the First Symposium on Blockchain and Robotics, MIT Media Lab | Blockchain Design for an Embedded System | Spring 2019 | Cambridge, MA | Sara Falcone, John Zhang, Agnes Cameron, Amira Abdel-Rahman | https://www.ledgerjournal.org/ojs/ledger/article/view/172 | |||||||||||||||||||||
98 | IEEE International Congress on Networking and Communications | MedRec: A Network for Personal Information Distribution | Spring 2019 | Honolulu, HI | Nchinda Nchinda, Agnes Cameron, Kallirroi Retzepi, Andy Lippman | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8685631 | |||||||||||||||||||||
99 | Bauhaus 100 Kolloquium | Questions of Utopia in The Decentralised Web | Spring 2019 | Weimar, Germany | with Kallirroi Retzepi, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Sam Ghantous | https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9783868599701_A43037241/preview-9783868599701_A43037241.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||
100 | King's Review | Hiding in Plain Sight | 2018 | Cambridge UK | Issue 05: Distraction | https://www.kingsreview.co.uk/ |