Podcasts by TECHnique

Design Thinking - Design Thinking the world from 2021-08-23T07:10:30

This is the final episode in our podcast series on Design Thinking. The series is hosted by Sam Fry and Richard Adams, who interview design practitioners from business, education and independent...

Design Thinking - Is Design Thinking changing Design Education? from 2021-08-16T07:08:22

This is the seventh episode in our podcast series on Design Thinking. The series is hosted by Sam Fry and Richard Adams, who interview design practitioners from business, education and independe...

Design Thinking - What is Design process? from 2021-08-09T08:29:23

This is the sixth episode in our podcast series on Design Thinking. The series is hosted by Sam Fry and Richard Adams, who interview design practitioners from business, education and independent...

Design Thinking - Design Education from 2021-08-02T08:20:59

This is the fifth episode in our podcast series on Design Thinking. The series is hosted by Sam Fry and Richard Adams, who interview design practitioners from business, education and independent...

Design Thinking - What is the value of Design Thinking? from 2021-07-26T15:54:19

This is the fourth episode in our podcast series on Design Thinking. The series is hosted by Sam Fry and Richard Adams, who interview design practitioners from business, education and independen...

Design Thinking - Co-creation and empathy from 2021-07-19T09:19:53

This is the third episode in our podcast series on Design Thinking. The series is hosted by Sam Fry and Richard Adams, who interview design practitioners from business, education and independent...

Design Thinking - Design Thinking as an Industry from 2021-07-12T11:03:05

This is the second episode in our podcast series on Design Thinking. The series is hosted by Sam Fry and Richard Adams, who interview design practitioners from business, education and independen...

Design Thinking - Background and History from 2021-07-05T08:57:42

This is the first episode in our podcast series on Design Thinking. The series is hosted by Sam Fry and Richard Adams, who interview design practitioners from business, education and independent...

Episode 52 - What can tech learn from the arts? from 2021-05-27T13:57:33

After almost 5 years of creating this podcast, Sam Fry summarises some of the lessons that he has learned.

By day, Sam works as a technology consultant at IBM, where he helps large com...

Episode 51 - Digital Vampires from 2021-04-25T10:17:18

Richard Adams speaks to Tim Kindberg, a writer, digital creative and sceptic.

You may remember Tim, from 'Episode 27 - Technology for Sceptics', which we released 2 years ago. For thos...

Episode 50 - Richard and Sam from 2021-04-08T10:07:51

It is episode 50!

To celebrate, this episode features a chat between our hosts Richard Adams and Sam Fry.

This is the first time that they have interviewed each other on the ...

Episode 49 - Humans And Technology from 2021-03-02T12:42:27

Sam Fry speaks to Eric Forman, an artist that works in the intersections between fine art, design, architecture, and technology.

For nearly twenty years, Eric's work has used playful i...

Episode 48 - New Media Art from 2021-02-02T15:12:28

Sam Fry speaks to Patrick Lichty, a New Media Artist who (at the time of recording) was based in United Arab Emirates.

Patrick describes himself as a media “reality” artist, who works ...

Episode 47 - Copy That from 2021-01-03T12:29:12

Richard F Adams speaks to Alistair Gentry, Harmeet Chagger-Khan, Mr Gee and Hannah Redler Hawes about the 'Copy That?' exhibition.

'Copy That?' is an exhbition from the Open Data Insti...

Episode 46 - Rules Of Engagement from 2020-12-15T14:56:40

Richard F Adams speaks to Antonio Roberts, Nick Briz and Hannah Redler Hawes about the 'Rules of Engagement' exhibition.

'Rules of Engagement' is an exhbition from the Open Data Instit...

Episode 45 - Women In Gaming from 2020-11-10T20:04:28

Sam Fry speaks to Vik Bennett, a writer, poet and creative producer.

Vik (known often in her writing as Victoria) is founder of the grassroots arts collective, Wild Women Press. As a r...

Episode 44 - Design Fiction from 2020-10-21T15:45:58

Sam Fry speaks to Amina Abbas-Nazari: a designer, researcher and artist that works in Design Fiction.

Amina uses Design Fiction to explore and design alternative interactions, systems ...

Episode 43 - Fashion from 2020-09-30T14:51:26

Sam Fry speaks to Sam Cotton, a fashion designer, consultant and artist.

Sam Cotton is an Award Winning Creative Director, Designer and Fashion Innovation Consultant, who specialises i...

Episode 42 - Events from 2020-08-19T19:48:36

Sam Fry speaks to Helen Brady, a senior events manager that works for Events Northern in the North West of England.

Helen is an amazing events manager, who runs a variety of corporate ...

Episode 41 - Writing from 2020-06-28T09:57:46

Richard F Adams speaks to Rebecca Denton, an author that sometimes goes under the nom de plume Lizzy Dent.

Rebecca Denton is an author and content creator. Her background is in worked ...

Episode 40 - Philosophy from 2020-04-30T21:57:29

Richard F Adams speaks to Graham Harman, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles.

Graham is known for his work with th...

Episode 39 - Digital New Media from 2020-03-24T19:45:07

Richard F Adams speaks to Alex May, a British contemporary artist whose practice forges links between art, science and technology through a wide range of digital new media.

Alex is wel...

Episode 38 - BioArt from 2020-02-29T23:48:16

Richard F Adams speaks to Anna Dumitriu, a British artist who works with BioArt, sculpture, installation and digital media to explore our relationship to infectious diseases, synthetic biology a...

Episode 37 - Creative Business Coaching from 2020-02-01T00:00:09

Sam Fry hosts, as he interviews Ellen O'Hara. Ellen is a coach, a facilitator and a strategist that has done a host of work in the creative and cultural industries.

The pair talk about...

Episode 36 - Light from 2019-12-23T17:11:55

Sam Fry hosts, as he introduces a talk from Maja Petric. This talk was taken from Lumen Art Projects "Artists on Artificial Intelligence" event, hosted at IBM in London.

Maja is an art...

Episode 35 - Artificial Intelligence from 2019-11-24T23:13:07

Sam Fry hosts a series of talks from artists talking about artificial intelligence. Each talk was taken from Lumen Art Projects "Artists on Artificial Intelligence" event, hosted at IBM in Londo...

Episode 34 - Materials from 2019-10-31T20:30:56

Richard F Adams speaks to Anna Ploszajski, a material scientist, engineer and communicator based out of the Institute of Making at University College London.

By day, Anna is a Research...

Episode 33 - Minecraft Art from 2019-09-24T07:12:29

Sam Fry speaks to Adam Clarke, a leading Minecraft artist and digital producer, responsible for some of the most innovative Minecraft projects in the world.

Adam uses Minecraft, alongs...

Episode 32 - Teaching Creativity from 2019-09-01T15:26:57

Richard F Adams speaks to Paul Carney, a former teacher who now works as an arts consultant.

Paul is a big advocate of teaching creative skills and last year published a new book, call...

Episode 31 - Awards from 2019-07-30T12:14:44

Sam Fry speaks to Carla Rapoport and Jack Addis, the team behind The Lumen Prize for Art and Technology.

The Lumen Prize celebrates the very best art created with technology through a ...

Episode 30 - Rituals And Storytelling from 2019-06-09T16:46:21

Richard F Adams speaks to Giles Lane, an artist and and designer that is fascinated by how people create and share knowledge.

Giles is one of the directors of the independent, artist-l...

Episode 29 - Immersive Experiences from 2019-04-23T21:38:13

Sam Fry speaks to Tom Chambers and Theo Papatheodorou from the creative technology company Random Quark.

At Random Quark, the pair create immersive experiences that aim to bring a smil...

Episode 28 - Designing For Films from 2019-03-24T19:43:19

Sam Fry speaks to Ash Thorp. Ash is a prolific designer, who works as an illustrator, graphic designer, and creative director. He created the user interfaces and other design work for both the f...

Episode 27 - Technology For Sceptics from 2019-02-26T10:00:45

Richard F Adams speaks to Tim Kindberg. Tim is a digital technologist that works out of the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol. He founded the social video platforms Vorb and Nth Screen, alongsid...

Episode 26 - Audience Centric Theatre from 2019-01-23T00:46:32

Samuel Fry speaks to Dan Barnard and Rachel Briscoe, who together run fanSHEN. As a company, they create audience-centric experiences which involve elements of performance, game and installation...

Episode 25 - Digital Art from 2018-11-29T01:16:39

To celebrate our 25th episode, for the first time our two podcast hosts interview each other. Samuel Fry speaks to Richard F Adams. The pair discuss Richard's arts practice, digital art (includi...

Episode 24 - Creating A Community from 2018-10-29T23:45:52

Samuel Fry speaks to Ben Templeton and Sam Howey Nunn, the team behind Artful Spark. For those that don't know, Artful Spark is a quarterly event series about boundary-defying work and cross-dis...

Episode 23 - Ethics Of Technology from 2018-09-30T18:14:37

Samuel Fry speaks to Clara Crivellaro. Clara is a Research Fellow at Newcastle University. She is also part of the team behind 'Not Equal', a national network that aims to develop practical resp...

Episode 22 - Artistic Process from 2018-08-27T17:07:09

Richard Adams speaks to Nick Rothwell. Nick is a composer, performer, software architect, programmer and sound artist. He has worked with Ballett Frankfurt, Vienna Volksoper, Braunarts, Sonic Ar...

Episode 21 - Dance from 2018-07-29T21:59:26

Samuel Fry speaks to Jayachandran Palazhy, Founder and Artistic Director of Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts. Jayachandran is an internationally sought after dancer and choreographer who wor...

Episode 20 - Art for the Stars from 2018-06-24T20:57:30

Richard Adams speaks to Jon Pettigrew. Jon was the Commercial Director of SSEYO in the 1990s, developing the Koan Music Engine which was a way of creating "Generative Music", a term popularized ...

Episode 19 - Creative Coding from 2018-05-29T04:30:13

Samuel Fry speaks to Matthias Dörfelt, a Los Angeles-based artist. Matthias is a Media Artist, who started life as an illustrator and who now produces art ranging from drawings, prints, animatio...

Episode 18 - Designing Cities from 2018-04-29T22:31:45

Richard Adams speaks to Professor Rachel Cooper. Rachel is also Director of ImaginationLancaster, an open and exploratory design-led research centre, and she is Chair of Lancaster institute for ...

Episode 17 - Creativity from 2018-03-23T22:48:49

Samuel Fry speaks to Leila Johnston about creativity, art, technology and comedy. Leila Johnston is a writer, artist, maker and consultant working at the intersection of science, technology and ...

Episode 16 - Interactive Narratives from 2018-02-21T00:22:15

Richard Adams speaks to Krishna Stott. Krishna Stott is a story and technology pioneer, working with a focus on modern audiences. He runs the company Bellyfeel as a digital innovation partner fo...

Episode 15 - Art Curation from 2018-01-27T14:02:06

Samuel Fry speaks to Doreen Ríos, a curator and researcher specialised in digital cultures. Doreen is the Director of [ANTI]MATERIA, a website and exhibition series specialising in Mexican digit...

Episode 14 - Data Privacy and Art from 2017-12-20T12:43:26

Samuel Fry speaks to Documentarian Brett Gaylor and Media-Maker H?ng Do Thi Duc about how they use art to explore the issues surrounding Data Privacy. Samuel speaks to Brett Gaylor about his pro...

Episode 13 - Blockchain and Art from 2017-11-26T18:16:59

Samuel Fry speaks to Shaun Miller about his portraits, creativity and entrepreneurship. They go on to talk specifically about Blockchain, a technology that has the potential to change the world....

Episode 12 - Magic from 2017-10-31T01:03:13

Richard Adams speaks to Stuart Nolan about his work as a magician, artist and technologist. During the episode, the pair talk about many aspect's of Stuart's work, including traditional sleight-...

Episode 11 - Digital Storytelling from 2017-09-26T20:35:09

Richard Adams speaks to Hazel Grian about her work as a producer, writer and digital storyteller. They cover various moments in Hazel's career, which includes working at the Pervasive Media Stud...

Episode 10 - Broadcasting the Arts from 2017-08-28T19:52:30

Samuel Fry speaks to Martin Franklin about his own art work, broadcasting and archiving in the arts. They discuss Martin's role at organisations such as London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Place ...

Episode 9 - Art and Dementia from 2017-07-06T23:14:59

Samuel Fry speaks to Sonia Li about creating multi sensory artworks. In particular, they discuss Sonia's most recent art piece called "Movement", which is aimed at dementia patients.

Suppo...

Episode 8 - Sound Design from 2017-06-21T23:14:03

Richard F Adams speaks to Paul Weir about sound design in video games, retail and theatre. Together they explore the history, present and future of audio.

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Episode 7 - Future of Love from 2017-05-04T23:12:38

Samuel Fry speaks to Ghislaine Boddington about using technology to create a sense of belonging and working with avatars in virtual worlds. Together they explore the topic of the Future of Love....

TECHnique - New Episodes Coming Soon from 2017-04-28T14:57:40

Following an initial 6 episode trial run, Sam Fry and Richard Adams will be returning soon with more episodes.

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Episode 6 - Death of Painting from 2016-08-02T01:07:47

Richard Adams speaks to Alison Jardine about whether we are experiencing the Death of Painting.

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Episode 5 - TwitterBots from 2016-07-19T08:09:10

Samuel Fry speaks to his housemate, Tobias Phillips, after he has made a Twitterbot based on him.

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Episode 4 - Small Business from 2016-07-12T11:08:20

Richard Adams interviews Andrew Roberts and Steve Taylor about how small businesses keep up with digital changes.

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Episode 3 - Gaming from 2016-07-05T08:31:02

Samuel Fry interviews Sumo Digital, Other Ocean and Upstream Arcade about the gaming industry.

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Episode 2 - Art Practice from 2016-06-28T05:17:52

Richard F Adams interviews Fiddian Warman and Debbie Davies about how digital has changed the way that art is created and consumed.

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Episode 1 - Interactive Plays from 2016-06-21T00:00

Sam Fry interviews Seth Kriebel about his process of creating plays where the audience decide where to go to next.

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TECHnique - A Teaser from 2016-06-12T22:08:32

In this first episode, Sam Fry introduces this new podcast which begins with a 6 part series.

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