Birgitta Hosea

Professor Birgitta Hosea is an artist and Director of the Animation Research Centre at the University for the Creative Arts. She was previously Head of Animation at the Royal College of Art and prior to that at Central Saint Martins (where she completed her PhD). At both, she led audience engagement projects for organisations (including National Gallery, English National Opera, RSC, Old Operating Theatre Museum) in which animation was used to extend exhibition design and audiences. Her own expanded animation work has been exhibited internationally including ASIFAKEIL, Vienna; National Gallery X; Venice & Karachi Biennales; Oaxaca & Chengdu Museums of Contemporary Art; Hanmi Gallery, Seoul; Centre for Recent Drawing, London; Hunan Museum, China. Her accolades include collection in the Tate Britain and Centre d’Arte Contemporain, Paris, archives; an Adobe Impact Award; a MAMA Award for Holographic Arts; fellowship of the RSA; artist residencies in Azerbaijan, Ireland, Italy and Sweden. She has co-curated events and exhibitions for, amongst others, Adobe, Ars Electronica and Guizhou Provincial Museum, China: Fission (2022), featured 44 international digital artists reaching 250,000 people.

Commencing with technical research for Adobe as software BETA tester, Birgitta’s funded research includes Sensory Spaces, developing tactile, VR sculpture software for StoryFutures (2020) and Future Transport 2030, animated visualisation of Synaptic Transport (EU R&I) with Bartlett School of Planning, UCL (2013). She is currently leading on feminist AI research with City University of London in which hand drawing is used with Generative Adversarial Networks to visualize statistics on domestic violence through animation. Her writing has featured in publications such as Animation Interdisciplinary; The Crafty Animator; Experimental and Expanded Animation;  Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital; Animating the Spirited; Animated Landscapes; and Expanded animation with her most recent book being Performance Drawing: New Practices Since 1945 (Bloomsbury, 2020) co-written with Foá, Grisewood and McCall.