The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Helen's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Helen
Dr Helen V. Pritchard is an associate professor in queer feminist technoscience & digital design at , and the programme lead for .
Helenñޙs work considers the impacts of computation on social and environmental justice and how these impacts configure the possibilities for lifeñޔor who gets to have a lifeñޔin intimate and significant ways. As a practitioner she works together with others to make propositions and designs for computing, developing methods to uphold a politics of queer survival and environmental practice. Helen is the co-editor of and .
She regularly collaborates with on software art and writing machines, and together with Femke Snelting and Jara Rocha, she activates , an action-research collective that investigates technologies of subsurface rendering and its imaginations. The Underground Division bugs contemporary regimes of volumetrics that are applied to extractivist, computationalist and geologic damages. It is an ongoing hands-on situation for device making, tool problematising and "holing in gaug".
Helen has extensive experience in working with participatory and creative practice methods for co-research, drawing on feminist and queer approaches. Since 2013 Helen has been a member of "", an award-winning group investigating the relationship between technologies and practices of environmental sensing and citizen engagement. She is also a co-organiser of (TITiPi); together they convene communities to hold computational infrastructures to account and create spaces for articulating what technologies in the ñޜpublic interestñޝ might be.
Helen was previously the Head of Digital Art and lecturer in Computing at Goldsmiths University of London. As an artist and academic, Helen has given keynotes and public talks and has shown work internationally, including at FACT (UK), Furtherfield (UK), Tetem (NL), Sonic Acts (NL), Tate Exchange (UK), transmediale (Germany), DA Fest International festival of Digital Art (Bulgaria), SpaceX (UK), Microwave Festival (Hong Kong), ACA Florida (USA), and Arnolfini Online (UK). Helen received her EPSRC-funded PhD from Queen Mary University of London.
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Current Research Projects
ñޜñޝ. Funded by Human Data Interaction: Legibility, Agency, Negotiability Network Plus, UK EPSRC.
ñޜñޝ. Funded by Research Communities Funding: COVID-19 / Quintin Hogg Trust.
ñޜMultispecies Methods for Solidarity Stories ñޔ Using Multispecies Digital Storytelling for Sustainable Change by engaging with Decolonial and Anti-Racist Strategies" in collaboration with (Linnaeus University). Funded by Linnaeus University Internationalization grant 20/21.
ñޜñޝ. Funded by Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH).
Current Artworks
Thames Estaury 2021
, transmediale 2021ñޓ2022
Current PhD Students
ñޜQueer Maximalism HyperBodyñޝ.
ñޜPost-Identity Phenomenology and Digitally Mediated Disruptionsñޝ.
. ñޜDesign Education for sustainabilityñޝ
Contact Helen
helen.v.pritchard@plymouth.ac.uk