Brady Marks is a computational artist working primarily in audiovisual practices, new media and kinect art. Thematically her work engages critically with the fallibility and promise of technology, perspectives of place – virtual/actual, ecological and narratives of self orientation in the sciences.
Brady is concerned with how we live our lives in the face of technological encroachment; to that end, she experiments with media configurations that express a middle way between technological fetishism and dystopian fantasies. Along this way she takes her audiences behind the curtain, provides tools for technological play, educates and explores hypothetical new relationships for us with our tech. This is what she means when she calls herself a Cultural Prototyper.
She obtained an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and a Masters in Interactive Arts from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. As a graduate of Simon Fraser University taught by faculty including original members of the World Soundscape Project (WSP), and as a member of the Soundscape Collective at Vancouver Co-operative Radio, Brady Marks is an inheritor of the WSP legacy of Acoustic Ecology. She is a frequent host of Soundscape on Co-op Radio, member of the Vancouver Electronic Ensemble, curator of the Coda series of live coding events and DJs Queer Dance Music.
Vancouver is situated on unceded, traditional and ancestral xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories.
