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Ghislaine Boddington
Ghislaine Boddington is a reader in digital immersion at University of Greenwich and founder/creative director of the interactive design collective body>data>space. She is recognized globally as a pioneer in the exploration of digital intimacy, telepresence and virtual physical blending since the early 1990s, advocating for the placement of the living physical body as the digital interface itself throughout her extensive curatorial, presentation and debate work. Her practice-led research ‘The Internet of Bodies’ is supported by her readership at University of Greenwich (Impact Case Study REF21). Her co-direction and curation outputs include ‘me and my shadow’ (Royal National Theatre 2012), Nesta’s FutureFest 2015–18 and Collective Reality (FutureFest/University of Greenwich/SAT Montreal 2016/17). In 2017 she was awarded the international IX Immersion Experience Visionary Pioneer Award for her long-term work as a pioneer amongst digital creatives. Ghislaine is a life-long advocate for diversity and inclusion, at present as a trustee for Stemette Futures and from 2017 to 2021 as spokesperson for Deutsche Bank’s ‘Women Entrepreneurs in Social Tech’ accelerator. She is an expert weekly presenter for BBC World Service’s flagship radio show/podcast Digital Planet, an associate editor for AI & Society (Springer) and a member of the UK government’s College of Experts for the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sports.
Contact: University of Greenwich, School of Design, 10 Stockwell St, London SE10 9BD, UK.