Born in Wales 1976, Ted Hunt is an independent speculative / critical / discursive designer living and working in London. Ted has most recently collaborated directly with Jasleen Kaur upon a series of workshop commissions for the Royal College of Art’s ReachOutRCA programme. Ted’s own practice shares multiple themes and intersections with Jasleen, increasingly complimenting rather than contracting their differing genre’s of traditional classification (artist / designer).
Ted holds a Masters Degree from the Royal College of Art and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts / Royal Anthropological Institute, and is the founder/director of The Museum of Technorealism. His work has been shown nationally at and commissioned by; Artangel, Alain de Botton, ICA, Royal College of Art, Southbank Centre, Dulwich Picture Gallery and internationally by; Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of Ontario, Vitra Design Museum, MAK Vienna and the Vienna Biennale 2017.
Ted’s work currently explores the boundaries between subjective, objective and inter-subjective interpretations and perspectives, along with ongoing endeavours to actively couple design with philosophy and modern technology with ancient wisdom.
Exhibitions
2017
Vitra Design Museum, Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine
MAK Vienna, Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine
Vienna Biennale 2017, Robots. Work. Our Future
2016
Ravensbourne University / V&A / Tate Digital, Mozilla Festival London
Cube Design Museum, Kerkrade, Holland, Maastricht Disrupt
Dulwich College, Creative Matters, Group Show
RCA Student Union Group Show, Fifty Six Hours
Royal College of Art, RCA Show 2016
Gas Works Gallery, RCA ARC Magazine #20 Launch
Google Campus London / Various Locations, Museum of Technorealism
Sir John Soane’s Museum, Design for an Entrance to the Internet
Royal College of Art, Work In Progress Show
Mayor of London’s Low Carbon Entrepreneur 2016, Finalist
Southbank Centre, Changing Minds Festival
2015
Somerset House, Utopia 2016: Open Space Workshop
Royal College of Art, Work In Progress Show
2014
RCA + The Extrapolation Factory, BioTechMiniMarket
Dairy Art Centre, London, Art as Therapy book launch
Rijksmuseum, Art is Therapy
National Gallery of Victoria, Art as Therapy
Art Gallery of Ontario, Art as Therapy
Royal College of Art, Work In Progress Show
2012
Artangel, Idea For London Winner
2010
Royal Society of Arts, Fellow
2000
ICA, onedotzero 4
Publications
2017
Vitra Design Museum, Hello, Robot. Edited by Mateo Kries, Amelie Klein
Guest Lecturing and Talks
2017
Fife Contemporary Art & Craft, Key Notes Speaker, ‘Thinking, Making + Matter’ Symposium.
2016
Royal College of Art, ReachOutRCA: Young Design Practitioners Workshop
Camberwell University of the Arts, Visiting Lecture upon invitation by Veronica Ranner
RCA MA Fashion, Visiting Lecture upon invitation by Zowie Broach / Susan Postlethwaite
Maastricht Disrupt Conference, Cube Design Museum, Holland, People Not Users Workshop
Royal College of Art, ReachOutRCA: 2 x Studio Visit Workshops
2015
Dulwich College / Dulwich Picture Gallery, The Big Draw: Speculative Drawing Workshops
Royal College of Art, ReachOutRCA: 2 x Show 2015 Workshops
2009
Buckinghamshire New University, Visiting Lecturer of D&AD Clinic programme
Articles
Dezeen, Socratic Search invites Google users to question their assumptions
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/06/24/ted-hunt-socrates-search-google-socratic-method-royal-college-art-rca-graduate-project-design-interactions/
Core 77, Drones: Possession, Privacy and Permission
http://www.core77.com/posts/47124/Drones-Designers-Respond-to-Possession-Privacy-and-Permission
The Future Laboratory, Searching for Answers
https://www.lsnglobal.com/briefing/article/19704/searching-for-answers
The New Stack, Socratic Engine Injects Critical Thinking Into Our Searches
http://thenewstack.io/socratic-search-engine-injects-critical-thinking-search-tools/
