Hypersea

Based in Manchester, Hypersea (Hannah Cobb) is a generalist whose practice explores the emergence of new digital technologies and their wider cultural and social implications through speculative fiction and documentary-style analysis. She works across film, digital 3D design, sound, live performance and writing, often experimenting with the use of Generative Al models trained on her previous work, and is 1/2 of the artist-writer-curator duo Y7 with Declan Colquitt. Hannah has collaborated on Shumon Basar’s Lorecore Trilogy for the Zora Zine residency and her work Report 5923, a feature-length sci-fi film based on Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed was shortlisted for both The Lumen Prize and the SOLO AI Award. She took part in the Samarbeta residency in Salford, in partnership with IKLEKTIK, Salford Museum & Art Gallery and Hybrid Futures, co-organised and produced a zine for Open Secret’s touring internet cinema programme, and spoke on post-music at Unsound Festival in 2024. Most recently she curated the 18th edition of the Global Art  Forum under the title The New New Normal, and was commissioned to create a new  work for May Al Help You, an exhibition presented by Patchlab and FutureEverything in Krakow, Poland.

AND, alongside our collaborator School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University, is hosting Hannah as part of n-Space – an initiative, encouraging interdisciplinary experimentation across art and technology.