Julie Freeman

Translating Nature

Biography

Julie Freeman is a TED Senior Fellow and a digital artist. Her work spans visual, audio and digital art forms and explores the relationship between science and the natural world. Her work experiments in transforming complex processes and data sets into sound compositions, objects and animations. She focuses on questioning the use of electronic technologies to ‘translate nature’.

A mix of computer scientist and artist, Julie likes to spot potential connections and correlations between disparate concepts and systems and combining them. She often works collaboratively and experimentally with scientists.

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