Bronac Ferran
curator, based in London, United Kingdom.
Bronac Ferran is a writer, curator and researcher based in London. She has been commissioned to write recent exhibition reviews and catalogue essays by, among others, LACMA; ZKM, Karlsruhe; the Migros Museum, Zurich; Tate Liverpool and Tate Modern; the Mayor Gallery and Victoria Miro, London; and Studio International . Between 1995 and 2007 she pioneered interdisciplinary arts practice and policy at Arts Council England, convening among other things the ground-breaking CODE (Collaboration and Ownership in the Digital Economy) conference, the first anywhere to bring together free and open-source protagonists with social anthropologists, artists, lawyers, physicists, and EU policymakers. She then curated an exhibition, “Poetry, Language, Code” in Cambridge in 2012, whilst working part-time at the RCA in London in the department of Innovation Design Engineering. She has also served on Transmediale and Ars Electronica juries and is currently a visiting Research Fellow in Art and Science at the University of Hertfordshire.
From The Metamagic of Mathematics, August 2024
