Vicky Clarke

NOVARS Artist in Residence. University of Manchester, UK
Vicky Clarke is a sound and electronic media artist from Manchester, UK. Working with sound sculpture, DIY electronics and human-machine systems, she explores our relationship to technology through sonic materiality, live AV and browser-based artwork. Vicky won the Oram Award 2020 for innovation in sound and music technology and is working towards her first album. She is currently artist in residence at NOVARS research centre, University of Manchester exploring musique concrete and machine learning. The residency builds on her AI research trip to St Petersburg/Moscow as a selected artist for UK-RUSSIA Year of Music, British Council and her project “MATERIALITY” exploring sound sculpture as a gestural and acoustic medium to interface the physical and digital; collaborating with researchers at the National Graphene Institute, she developed a conductive graphene performance interface for Ableton Live. Her work has featured on “SONIC FUTURES: How technology is guiding electronic music”, British Council and “Artist DIY” for FACT magazine in 2020. As director of Noise Orchestra and as a solo artist Vicky has performed/exhibited with National Science & Media Museum, MUTEK, CTM, Q02 and is an AMPLIFY DAI artist, a programme connecting the work of women artists in UK, Argentina and Canada supported by MUTEK, Somerset House Studios and British Council.

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Vicky Clarke is a sound and electronic media artist from Manchester, UK.