About

Bethan Hancock is a Welsh creative technologist, artist and AI researcher currently based in London, UK. Her work observes themes of community heritage, landscape, collective consciousness, and human connection with technology through the lens of immersive digital storytelling. She holds a particular interest in the phenomenology of digital spaces, and how through experiences of technology, communities can augment and connect with history and heritage.

Her practice aims to question human evolution with technology; considering how we can handle current topics and issues, particularly that hold a posthuman quality, in a way that still holds aspects of care and consideration that remain human. Further work explores these themes and questions through short film, creative coding, robotics, experimental music / audio composition, and painting practice.

In recent accomplishments Bethan has exhibited her collaborative project “Consciousness In The Landscape” at IRCAM Paris as part of their 2024 Forums. This project also secured acknowledgement from the 2024 Innovate UK Immersive Tech Awards as runner-up in their Sensory category. Through these awards she became a Grand Prize Internship winner, resulting in her work as Immersive Tech Intern with Arcade XR in London, and the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff. Alongside this, she has also recently designed audio visuals for an immersive music performance at the Royal College of Music, and completed a successful year as Editor of The DODO - The Royal College of Art Newspaper. Recent exhibitions of her work include Outernet London, Saatchi Gallery, Royal College of Art, IRCAM Paris, and at the Innovate UK Immersive Tech Awards. 

She currently works in AI Research for 1UP Learning Technologies in London, UK - researching AI methodologies to help teach and enhance literacy skill learning for children in primary school education.