Artist, Researcher, Producer, Curator, Speaker.Julie Freeman is an artist who works with living systems and new technologies. She is a pioneer of large scale installations and online artworks which use real-time data as a living art material. Her work aims to bring audiences wonder and joy through novel and immersive connections to nature.Often translating time-based data from natural sources into robotic sculptures, physical objects, images, sound compositions and animations, her work explores the relationship between science, technology and the living world; questioning the use of networked technology in how we connect to nature. Julie's work ALICE generates its own electricity from urine, and The Lake tracked fish in real time to create music and animation.Over the past 25 years, her award-winning work has been commissioned by and exhibited at leading institutions including; the V&A, London’s Institute of Contemporary Art, Modern Art Oxford The Lowry, and the Science Museum, as well as widely internationally (most recently at the Dunkerque Trienniale, France and ZKM, Germany).Julie co-founded Fine Acts, a global creative studio for social impact that operates across issues and borders. Fine Acts believes in the power of art and play - thinking about ways to make people care and act, and we work with global communities of creatives to create novel avenues to empower activism.She also founded the Open Data Institute’s art programme ‘Data as Culture’ (now ten years old) to help artists working critically with data to promote and exhibit their artwork.Julie is a TED Senior Fellow. She holds a PhD from Queen Mary University of London and leads Translating Nature, a digital and data art studio from Margate, Kent.