Hannah is the British Council’s Director of Digital Innovation in the Arts, where she leads digital innovation across the organisation’s global Arts programme, covering a portfolio of over 100 countries. Spanning research, production, and policy, Hannah’s work is motivated by a belief that artists drive the development of more diverse and representative technologies, and arts-led innovation is essential to a more inspiring and sustainable future.
This belief is grounded in over a decade of work at the forefront of digital innovation in the arts. Having spent five years as Creative Producer with Google’s Arts & Culture Lab, and prior to this worked as an independent producer specialising in art and technology, Hannah has worked with organisations including Google Research, Google Quantum AI, MIT Media Lab, London Design Festival, the Barbican, Tate Liverpool, and the Serpentine Galleries to further arts and technology practice. Hannah has spoken on arts and technologies at the BFI, Southbank Centre, Oxford Internet Institute, and Kings College London, and has had writing on arts and AI published by European Journal and Routledge. She sits on the UNESCO’s International Year of Quantum arts & culture committee and is a member of Utrecht University’s Inclusive AI Lab.
Whenever possible, Hannah continues to produce and consult independently with artists and organisations applying advanced technologies as part of their practice or programme. Most recently this included work with artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg as executive producer of Pollinator Pathmaker, a multi-site participatory artwork involving new technologies, garden design and climate-change awareness, exhibited at the Eden Project and the Serpentine Galleries in the UK, and LAS Foundation in Berlin.
Hannah studied at Oxford University’s Internet Institute, where she received an award for her research exploring the social and cultural impact of geospatial technologies in remote geographies.
When not at work, Hannah can be found climbing, cycling, swimming, or getting happily lost outdoors!