Tanya is a London-based artist, researcher, curator and creative/digital producer aiming to demystify complex technological processes through playful, collaborative and participative formats.

She has been working with museums, galleries, independent art institutions (including Tate, Furtherfield and Mediale) and diverse artists for over a decade, curating and producing online and real-life events which connect audiences of all ages and abilities with evolving digital cultures. Tanya’s current Critical Digital Learning research explores relationships between people, spaces, technical objects, digital logics and their cultural implications. Realising potentials for activism, decolonial practice, environmental debates and promoting inclusivity.

She was part of the Emerging Leaders cohort at the Clore Leadership programme in 2022 and was awarded a Developing Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England for 2023-24.

Tanya is a co-founder of Compiler, a platform for digital art, curation, and critical technical practice addressing contemporary socio-political challenges.

Education
MA Digital Culture, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2016 – 2017
BA Sound Arts and Design, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, 2011 – 2014

Exhibitions  | Events  | Public Programming

2024

Alternative Virtual E17 Art Trail (Curator with Compiler), interactive installation with Some Kind of Hack Space and Artillery as part of the E17 Art Trail, Walthamstow Library, London, June 2024

What is the value of public digital art and digital making with local people? (Curator with Compiler), panel discussion as part of the E17 Art Trail and Artillery, William Morris Gallery, London, June 2024

Alternative Virtual E17 Art Trail (Artist with Compiler), workshops series as part of the Some Kind of Hack Space project space at Leyton Sixth Form College, Artillery, London, Mar and May 2024

Print Screen (Artist), an exhibition featuring the weirdest and most out-of-context screenshots, Wrong Biennale, online, Nov 2023 – Mar 2024

Wild Wired! Rewilding Encounters of Langthorne Park (Curator and Creative Producer with Hervisions), an interactive mobile-friendly game and workshop series with local communities for the Radical Landscapes exhibition, William Morris Gallery and Langthorne Park E11, London, Aug 2023 – Feb 2024

2023

Show Me The Pixels (Artist), Small File Photo Festival exhibition, The Photographers Gallery, online, Jan 2023 – Present

Once was Walthamstow (Artist with Compiler), 3D scanning workshops as part of the Radical Landscapes events and activities programme, William Morris Gallery, London, Nov 2023

Walthamstow Sculpt and 3D Scan (Artist with Compiler), 3D scanning workshop series on Fellowship Square supported by the London Borough of Waltham Forest, London, Aug 2023

Lives Of Your Smartphones (Artist Facilitator), workshop by Shinji Toya as part of the Digital Training Sessions, arebyte Gallery, London, July 2023

Let’s Debate (Creative Producer with Mediale), a two-day sector-wide conversation exploring how we develop creativity and culture in England, Kala Sangam, Bradford, Mar 2023

Return with Akeelah Bertram (Creative Producer with Mediale), web-based artwork and workshop series at East Street Arts (Leeds), Yard and MAIA Group (Birmingham), flat 70 (London), Jamaica Society Leeds, Aug 2022 – Mar 2023

2022

York Art Gallery Collaboration: Public Engagement Programme to activate two exhibitions – Body Vessel Clay and Sin (Creative Producer with Mediale), York, June – Nov 2022

Immersive Assembly Vol. 2: ‘Bodies and Geometry’ (Creative Producer with Mediale), York (UK) and Viborg (Denmark), May – Sept 2022

People’s Park Plinth (Creative Producer), Furtherfield, London and online, May 2021 – Jan 2022

The Treaty of Finsbury Park 2025 (Creative Producer – LARP prototypes), Furtherfield, London and online, Nov 2021 – Jan 2022

2021

Next Generation Internet Policy Summit: Redistribute the internet (Digital Event Producer with IAM-Internet), Nesta, online, Nov – Dec 2021

IAM Weekend 2021: Imagining Intercitizenships (Digital Event Producer), Barcelona and online, Nov 2021

The Treaty of Finsbury Park: Interspecies Park Assembly (Creative Producer), Furtherfield, online, Nov 2021

Time of Flight (Artist with Compiler), KIBLIX 2020–2021: Virtual Worlds Now exhibition at KIBLA PORTAL, Maribor, Slovenia, Oct – Nov 2021

Voting Weekend: People’s Park Plinth x CultureStake (Creative Producer), Furtherfield, London, Aug 2021

A Dance of Agency in Times of Flight (Curator with Compiler), exhibition at Zona Mista, London, June 2021

2020

Are / You / Actually (Artist with Compiler), quiz on online idleness, Phoenix Leicester, Sept 2020 – Present

Late at Tate Britain Online (Assistant Curator: Digital Learning), Tate Britain and online, London July – Sept 2020

Digital Studio Remix! (Curator of monthly Digital Learning workshops as part of the Late at Tate series), Tate Britain, Dec 2018 – Sept 2020

30works30days (Artist with Compiler), 12ø Collective and Artquest, online, Apr 2020

< Off-Grid-Traces > (Artist with Compiler), virtual workshop as part of the IAM Weekend, online, Mar 2020

Digital Making: Mini Monuments (Assistant Curator: Digital Learning), Tate Modern, London, Feb 2020

:Digital :De-stress (Artist with Compiler), a collaborative web-based project created as part of DB Berdan AW20 collection, London Fashion Week, Feb 2020

Off-Grid < On Tour > (Curator with Compiler), WiFi router-based exhibition at The Wrong – Digital Art Biennale, various locations in the UK and beyond, Nov 2019 – Feb 2020

2019

< Off-Grid-Traces > (Artist with Compiler), workshop as part of the Late at Tate: Solstice, Tate Britain, London, Dec 2019

Late at Tate: Bauhaus Recoded in collaboration with Interactive Architecture Lab and University College London (Assistant Curator: Digital Learning), Tate Britain, London, Nov 2019

Twin Pixel (Artist with Compiler), interactive installation as part of Vague But Exciting… exhibition at Vivid Projects, Birmingham, June 2019

Lives of Net Art (Assistant Curator: Digital Learning), Tate Modern, London, Apr 2019

Living with the Internet of Things (Assistant Curator: Digital Learning), Tate Modern, London, Apr 2019

2018

Digital Anxieties (Artist – soundscape as part of the 20 Days programme at Tate Exchange), Tate Modern, London, Aug – Sept 2018

This is our garden in the morning … (Project Manager with the Early Years and Families team), Tate Britain, London, July – Sept 2018

Facets + Highlights (Artist with Compiler), exhibition as part of the Mirror Mirror, Digital Culture Expo, Laurie Grove Baths at Goldsmiths, University of London, July 2018

≈ Pretty Close ≈ (Artist with Compiler), sound installation and workshop as part of the Late at Tate: Echoes, Tate Britain, London, Apr 2018

2017

Cryptobar at the Glassroom (Artist with Compiler), workshop with Mozilla and Tactical Tech, London, Oct 2017

Cryptobar (Artist with Compiler), workshop at Mozilla Festival Science Fair, Ravensbourne College, London, Oct 2017

KAPUTT: The Academy of Destruction (Project Manager with the Early Years and Families team), Tate Modern, London, Oct 2017

Art : Work (Artist with Compiler), workshops as part of the creative interdisciplinary lab, Tate Exchange at Tate Modern, London, Oct 2017

x Λ y (Artist with Compiler), interactive installation as part of the Super Yonic festival, Copeland Gallery, London, Aug 2017

Slimeslimeslimeslime (Artist with Compiler), an online exhibition at isthisit?, London, Aug 2017

Every Dog Has Its Day (Artist with Compiler), exhibition as part of the Out of Our Hands: Digital Culture Expo, Laurie Grove Baths at Goldsmiths, University of London, July 2017

Cryptobar (Artist with Compiler), interactive installation at Goldsmiths University Library, London, June – July 2017

Futurity Now (Curator with Compiler), digital Show and Tell as part of the Against the Slow Cancellation of the Future conference, Goldsmiths, University of London, June 2017

Washing Machine Challenge (Curator with Compiler), workshop as part of the Against the Slow Cancellation of the Future conference, Goldsmiths, University of London, June 2017

Does It Matter? (Curator with Compiler), exhibition at Out of the Brew, London, May 2017

Cryptobar (Artist with Compiler), interactive installation as part of the Friday Late: Data Detox, V&A, London, Apr 2017

Play Safe (Curator with Compiler), exhibition at Out of the Brew, London, Apr 2017

2016

The 8-14’s Thing (Project Manager with the Early Years and Families team), Tate Britain and Tate Modern, London, Sept – Dec 2016

Colour Tones (Artist – multimedia installation as part of the Encounters exhibition), Galleri Mejan, Stockholm, Aug 2016

Circuit (Tate Collective Producer), Tate Britain and Tate Modern, London, Jan 2013 – Aug 2016

This Is Where We Are (Tate Collective Producer – immersive interactive algorithmic sculpture), The New Tate Modern Opening Weekend, London, June 2016

Opto Noise (Artist – live performance and workshop), The New Tate Modern Opening Weekend, London, June 2016

Opto Noise (Artist – live performance), Music Tech Fest at Funkhaus, Berlin, May 2016

If there is an ocean it is here play directed by Martina Conti (Sound Designer), The Platform Theatre at Central Saint Martins, UAL, London, May 2016

2015

Continued Stories: Smith-Muller Vocal Ensemble (Artist – live performance), Iklectik, London, Dec 2015

Art Licks Weekend Radio Show (Artist – online broadcast), Radio Anti 87.5FM, London, Oct 2015

Turbine Festival (Tate Collective Producer), Tate Modern, London, July 2015

What Am I Looking At? (Artist – live performances and sound installation as part of the Late at Tate series with Jenny Moore), Tate Britain, London, Apr – June 2015

2014

Loud Tate: Code (Tate Collective Producer), Tate Britain, London, Nov 2014

Sound:Gender:Feminism:Activism (Committee Member – conference organised by CRiSAP), University of the Arts London, London, Aug – Oct 2014

Spotlight: Source (Artist – interactive sound installation), Tate Britain, London, Apr – Sept 2014

Grand Futurist Concert of Noises (Artist – live performance), Cafe Oto, London, June 2014

Material Elastique (Artist – live performance as part of the LCC Summer Show 1), Corsica Studios, London, June 2014

High Voltage Noise Disco (Artist – live improvisation performance as part of the LCC Summer Show 1), Corsica Studios, London, June 2014

LCC Summer Show 1 (Artist – multimedia installation), Hotel Elephant, London, June 2014

LCC Summer Show 1 Radio Program (Artist – live broadcast), Resonance 104.4FM, London, May 2014

CRT Elastique (Artist – live improvisation performance), Nursery Gallery – London College of Communication, UAL, London, Mar 2014

Fortune’s Fool play directed by Lucy Bailey (Voice Artist), The Old Vic Theatre, London, Dec 2013 – Feb 2014

2013

Quartette Elastique (Artist – live improvisation performance as part of the Loud Tate: Pendulum), Tate Britain, London, Sept 2013

Unknown Devices (Artist – live improvisation performance as part of A Scream and an Outrage festival), Barbican Centre, London, May 2013

Hyperlink (Tate Collective Producer), Tate Modern, London, Apr 2013

Sonic Trails (Artist – soundscape for the digital exhibition developed with the Early Years and Families team), Tate Modern, London, Jan – Mar 2013

2012

Label (Artist – sound installation as part of The Great British Art Debate), Tate Britain, London, Nov 2012

The Tanks: Undercurrent (Artist – live soundscape), Tate Modern, London, Aug 2012