Zoë Camper is a practicing artist and technologist. She is CEO of Zoë Camper LLC, an RSA Fellow, and Co-Founder of the Augmented Society Network. She is a London native based in Fabulous Las Vegas.
Zoë works at the intersection of art and technology, her creative practice combines labor-intensive, highly detailed drawings with technology to explore storytelling, pattern making and cryptography.
She combines technologies to experiment with encryption, and the process required to encrypt, obscure, hide, and reveal messages in her work. Using XR and other digital tools to both produce, and influence her work, has enabled her to push the boundaries of both analog, and digital formats. She also uses encryption to ensure provenance, and proof of authenticity, using the same decentralized encryption techniques as blockchain and NFT’s. Zoë launched The ValleRy in June 2024, a VR hybrid gallery that uses IRL portals to anchor it into the real world. The ValleRy showcases Zoë’s work, Las Vegas, and international artists. She has exhibited in the UK and USA and has spoken at many conferences around the world, and led the team that created the UK’s first IBM Watson AI virtual health companion.
Everything starts with an idea, a story, and my pencils (my favorite medium). My work falls into different styles and categories including fantastical landscapes, portraiture, and conceptual works. I am inspired by built environments, fantasy, and simply experimenting with different types of technology. I love playing with what is real, what is made-up, or partially obscured, and combining that with stories, people, characters, and technology.
Her intellectual work explores creativity, privacy, kinship, and trust in all its forms. The Augmented Society Network (An RSA Thematic Network) creates an inspiring, and safe place for collaborators and thinkers to explore the impact of augmentative technology on society and the environment. It has produced experimental exhibitions, and publications combining unlikely, or disruptive sources to push creativity’s boundaries, and generate exciting thinking, and new partnerships.
Zoe taught Design Principles, Convergent Journalism, and Advance Coding at the BBC Academy, holds a Post Graduate Cert of Education and Hons Degree in 3D Design.
Career
- Goldwell Open Air Museum – Board member July 2024
- Launch of The ValleRy – VR Gallery for Las Vegas and International Artists
- Everything Starts with a Pencil exhibition June to December 2024 XR
- 6th Annual “Use Other Door”, CORE Contemporary's national juried Exhibition, Las Vegas – Group Show
- The King and Queen Exhibition ReBar Las Vegas Group exhibition - June 2024
- Celebrating Life! 2024 Exhibition Charleston Heights Arts Center, City of Las Vegas - First Place (Drawing and Pastel) – Congressional Award
- Nevada Arts Council Artist Project Grant Award 2024
- Creativity Offers Us A New Formula For Life 2.0 The Hive Worcester University 2024
- ‘Creativity offers us a new formula for life 2.0’ Group Exhibition, The Hive Worcestershire University, UK, and in Virtual Reality 2024
- Royal Society of the Arts Journal – ‘Creativity to Connect’ article 2024
- Society Magazine Interview @SocietyOfficiel, Paris, France 2024
- Guest Artist Slonina ARTSpace, Las Vegas 2024
- ‘Creativity offers us a new formula for life’ Group Exhibition Royal Society of Arts, John Adam’s House, London, and in Virtual Reality 2023-4
- The Las Vegas Influence on Absolutely Everything Fashion Show 2023
- Core Contemporary Gallery of Fine Art - Solo Show 2022
- Las Vegas Review Journal - artists’ most likely to 'break out' in 2022
- Good Work Guild Journal – Contributor and member 2022
- 2nd Annual Industry Insights IoT Awards – Thought Leader of the Year Shortlist 2021
- Chicago Architecture Biennial Panelist 2021
- Blockchain and NFT for the Available City 2021
- Beyond IoT | Immersive Technology Webinar | XR | VR | AR | MR | 3D – Panelist 2021
- Beyond IoT | Expanding Education – Panelist 2021
- Fem4 – Four-woman Exhibition Core Contemporary gallery 2021
- CityScapes juried Exhibition Rotunda Gallery at the Government Center Las Vegas
- Use other door, National Juried Art Exhibition 2021.
- 2021 The RSA ASN An Opportunity to Reimagine Learning Pandemic Catalyst Paper
- Use other door, National Juried Art Exhibition 2020.
- My Two Cents - Invitational Exhibition 2020
- HILAL Magazine – Virtually there, or there virtually, 2019
- Co-founder RSA Augmented Society (Thematic) Network. 2019
- Use other door, National Juried Art Exhibition 2019.
- RSA Las Vegas - AI. Blockchain. Humanity. Rinse. Repeat. – Speaker 2018
- Super Brains: Cognitive Computing for CEOs, Technologists, and Business Decision Makers – contributor 2018
- Vegas Seven Magazine. Intriguing People 2018, our annual celebration of Las Vegas’ cultural trailblazers and social trendsetters. Zoe Camper: Tech Transplant.
- Las Vegas Review Journal interview - Britain-based enlightenment group starts Las Vegas chapter - 2018
- RSA Las Vegas - Artificial Intelligence: Dream vs. Nightmare. Exploring a Future Fashioned by AI – Speaker 2018
- Established RSA Las Vegas (RSA USA Connector) - 2018
- NESTA Research Interview –Confronting Dr Robot future of AI and Health - 2017
- ARUK Digital Summit – Founder 2017
- Diginomica – Arthritis Research UK enlists AI chatbot ‘Arthy’ in mission to offer information and advice 2017
- AMRC Google DeepMind Conference – Product story 2017
- World of Watson speaker – Using cognitive computing to help people with arthritis 2016
- The User Experience, IBM HealthConnect 2016
- Deus Ex Machina: AI and Bots in a Modern Marketing Landscape 2016.
- Charity Comms conference speaker – Content marketing 2015
- Charity Comms conference speaker – Content publishing using COPE principles 2014
- Charity Comms - Top 10 article: Creating a content strategy in a fast-moving world – 2013
- FastTrain Manchester BBC conference sponsored by BBC and Salford University, Master class in HTML5 ‘the good stuff’, 2012
- BBC TV News ‘South East Today’, interview on impact of Twitter, 2010
- BBC Radio Kent, Interview on John and Jule’s Breakfast Show – YouTube use, 2010
- BBC TV News ‘South East Today’, interview on Using the Internet for campaigning, 2010
- BBC Radio Kent, interview on John and Jule’s Breakfast Show – Using Facebook, 2009
- BBC A+M Festival and Awards, Speaker, Websites, 2007
- Sky TV, 'Really caught in the act' – interview on History of Web cams, 1999
- Government SPIN Conference – 25% and beyond Speaker, 1999
- BBC Breakfast News, interview on Websites for all, 1998
- London Radio Services, interview on Cybercafés, 1998
- BBC World, TV program on using Internet IRC, 1998
- BBC TV program article on ‘Computers don't bite’, 1998
- Creative Technology, Article on HTML, 1998
- Irish Times ‘Netprofit’ Conference, Speaker, 1997
- Sony ‘Women in Technology’ award Speaker, 1997
- BBC Radio 4 interview for ‘Women in Technology’ Series, 1997
- BBC Radio 4 interview for ‘All in the mind’, 1997
- BBC World Service, 20 programs for the 'Network' series (Broadcast Worldwide), 1997
- International German Cybercafé Conference, Speaker, 1997 and 2000
- IRN, EBN, ABN, CNN, Radio 5, Channel One, Interviews, 1996, 97, 98, 99, 2000
- BBC Radio 4 Interview for ‘Books and Company’, 1996
- The Future File, TV article for European Business News, 1996
- Legal Network TV ‘The Internet and Law’ - Legal Training Material, video, 1996
- 'No anorak required' Internet training video - published 1996
- ’Millennium Metamorphosis’ conference, speaker, 1996
- Serpentine Gallery, London – open show 1990
