Publications Publicaciones Publicacions
- Peering
– Cowlishaw T, in Liminal Excavations, eds. Aksel Biørn-Hansen &
Oliver Bates, ICT4S 2024, Stockholm.
- On Knowing Matter: A speculative cartography of the
material ecology of Artificial Intelligence – Cowlishaw T,
CCCB Lab Blog, 2024
- “Tiny Tools” and “Little Loops”: software art as
care-ful software practice – Cowlishaw T, EASST 2022,
Madrid.
- The Symbols of the Divine: Approaching a post-human
ontology of digital design via the study of discards –
Cowlishaw T, Inmaterial: Diseño Arte y Sociedad 2022.
- Designing an interactive and collaborative experience in
audio augmented reality – Bauer V, Nagele A, Baume C,
Cowlishaw T, Cooke H, Pike C, Healey P, EuroVR 2019
- Seen by Machine: Computation Spectatorship in the BBC
television archive – Chavez Heras D, Blanke T, Cowlishaw T,
Fiala J, Herranz Donnan A and Man D, Digital Humanities 2019
- Personalising the public: personalising linear radio at
a public service broadcaster – Cowlishaw T, Burlington T,
Man D, Fiala J, Barrington R and Wright G, IBC 2018
- The case for public service recommender
algorithms – Fields B, Jones R and Cowlishaw T, FATREC
2018
- Quote extraction and analysis for news –
Newell C, Cowlishaw T and Man D, Proceedings of KDD Workshop on Data
Science, Journalism and Media 2018
- Tellybox: Nine speculative prototypes for future
TV – Miller L, Moore J, Cowlishaw T, Cooke H, Onumonu A,
Hentschel J, Howe T, Needham C, Sedriks S and Sewell R, Proceedings of
ACM TVX 2017
- The Right To The Network: Radical Urbanism of Digital
Public Space – Cowlishaw T, Contributoria, 2015 [archived]
Teaching Docencia Docència
- FMP/TFM Tutor, MA Design Research, BAU School of Art and Design,
Barcelona (2024). Tutees: Matilde Sartori, Fátima Valer Marquez, Virginia Padovani, Kasia Pluto, Mohammed El Sabee.
- Critical and Speculative Design (Sessional lecturer), MA Design
Research, BAU School of Art and Design, Barcelona (2021-2024):
- Functional Programming, (Sessional lecturer) MSc Computer Science,
University College London (2017).
- Information Retrieval (Teaching assistant), MSc Computer Science,
University College London (2016).
- Introduction to Programming (Teaching assistant), BSc Computer
Science, University College London (2016).
- Physical prototyping with Arduino, (Instructor, short course),
Ravensbourne College, London (2009).
- Generative graphics with processing, (Instructor, short course),
Ravensbourne College, London (2009).
Talks, exhibitions, workshops, etc. Charlas, exposiciones, talleres, etc. Xerrades, exposicions, tallers, etc.
- Neural Network Neuromancy: An experimental media
archaeology of language models, workshop activity at DASTS 2024, DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark, June
2024.
- Speculation through Surplus: A Discard Studies approach
for care through speculative design, presentation at DASTS 2024, DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark, June
2024.
- Stones Whisper
Secrets, performance with Mercè Jara Muns at VIU
2024, Barcelona, April 2024
- Workshop programme on AI, Music and Creativity for secondary school
students as part of the ALIA – Inteligencia artificial programme at
CCCB, with Constanza
Piffardi, Barcelona, January 2024.
- Mentes, Mentiras y Materialidades (Minds, Lies and
Materials) (2023 – 2024) – Workshop on the materiality and
environmental impact of AI as part of the cycle of events for the
exhibition Intel·ligència artificial at CCCB, Barcelona.
- Moderator of the panel discussion The Philosophy of Design
Concepts at Let’s Define conference 2023, Barcelona, Spain.
- Presentation: “From Refuse to Refusal: A Media ecology of Digital
Waste” at the Material Ecologies of Media Symposium, Royal
Holloway University, London, UK, June 2023.
- Work-in-progress presentation at RMIT
Practice Research Symposium Europe, Barcelona, Spain, April 2023.
- In Parallax (2023)
– Installation, in collaboration with Sally Golding and Matt Spendlove,
shown as part of the exhibition “Cinema of Sensations: The Never-Ending
Screen of Val del Omar” at MOMI, New York, USA.
- Work-in-progress presentation at RMIT
Practice Research Symposium Europe, Barcelona, Spain, December
2022.
- Co-chair of the Graphics and Spirituality session
at DRS 2022 in
Bilbao, Spain.
- Participation in the PhD Day at DRS 2022 in Bilbao, Spain.
- Extrasensory Excess
(2022) – Collaborative workshop as part of the “Medios
Sintientes” programme at Medialab Matadero, Madrid.
- Creativity, Sound, R&D, and Material Exploration
(2022) – Invited lecture to students on the MA Digital
Humanities programme at King’s College London.
- Speculation as Divination, Divination as Speculation
(2022) – Invited lecture to students on the BA and MA
Design Management programmes at Central St Martins, London.
- The Situationists’ Walkman
(2022) – Immersive audio installation in collaboration with
Matt Spendlove, supported by an Innovate UK Creative Industries Fund
grant.
- Rhizome (2021) –
Interactive VR experience in collaboration with Matt Spendlove,
supported by an Innovate UK Creative Industries Fund grant.
- Assembly Now!
(2020) – Installation, in collaboration with Sally Golding
and Spatial, exhibited at Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia and
online.
- Alluvial Sharawadji
(2018, 2020) – Installation, workshop and talk at Eufònic
Festival 2018 (Sant Carles de la Rapita, Spain) and Eufònic Urba 2020
(Barcelona, Spain)
- #goals:
Measurement, control and capitalist realism in mediated leisure
(2019) – Talk at Theorizing the Web 2019, New York City,
USA.
- “Keeping it Weird” in Radio R+D (2019) –
Talk at “Enredant les ones”: XRCB Radiolab 2019, Barcelona, Spain.
- Identifying disinformation at BBC R&D (2019) –
Talk at EBU Data in the Newsroom conference 2019, Munich, Germany.
- BBC: music experiences, a view from the future
(2018) (2018)– Talk at Reworks Agora, Thessaloniki,
Greece.
- Keeping creativity in Broadcast R&D
(2018) – Talk at Sónar+D, Barcelona, Spain.
- Singing with Machines
(2018) – Workshop with Jakub Fiala at Sónar+D, Barcelona,
Spain.
- A Digital Dérive: Situationist strategies for reclaiming
digital public space (2018) – Talk at Theorizing the Web
2018, New York City, USA.
- A Digital Dérive (2017) – Workshop at Mozfest 2017,
London, UK.