Interviews, Articles, Features and Talks with or about my work


The Sunday Times SA -
2022: Prepare for a brave new Metaworld
’Bots that turn Dante into their own poetry and avatars that misbehave. Nadine Dreyer and Sue de Groot look at what to expect in 2022 and beyond’ (2022)
*its paywalled, but heres a section for referencing (for students/academics)

American Institute of Graphic Arts -
Exploring the Uncanny Language of AI Through a New Machine-Made Book
’Barney McCann's Book.AI is a collaboration between human and machine’ (2021)

ICON Magazine -
‘Artist Barney McCann visualises new life forms using artificial intelligence
These ground-breaking artworks have been produced entirely by machines attempting to recreate and replicate natural forms.’ (2020)

American Institute of Graphic Arts -
‘An AI-powered Typeface that Looks Like Computer Handwriting
Barney McCann’s experimental typeface explores how efficiency can lead to typographic weirdness’ (2019)

Google I/O Conference -
’Music and Machine Learning (Google I/O 2019)’ (2019)

Creative Bloq -
‘Funny A-Z of quarantine life is unexpectedly good
We bet you can relate to this gorgeous website.’ (2020)

PAGE DE -
Kann KI Typedesign?
Wie viele andere Designer beschäftigt Barney McCann aus London die Frage, wie sich die kreative Arbeit durch KI verändern wird – auch ob sie sich tatsächlich effizienter gestalten lässt. (2019)

American Institute of Graphic Arts -
’When Artificial Intelligence Becomes an Artform
YACHT’s new album says a big hello to the “computer accent”’ (2019)

SPIN -
‘The Artists Using Artificial Intelligence to Dream Up the Future of Music’ (2019)

Bandcamp -
YOUNG AMERICANS CHALLENGING HIGH TECHNOLOGY  (2020)

Arts Karlsruhe -
‘Women in Computation: Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy’ (2018)

Dont Panic -
Barney McCann - Myths and Data Corruption (2017)

WAVESTATE -
Barney McCann - Artist Spotlight (2019)

Tuff Life Bristol -
Barney McCann is an experimental designer, photographer and director whose work has been exhibited from London to Hong Kong (2019)

CLASH Magazine -
Track of the Day (2018)

The Guardian -
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty is most popular show in V&A's history (2015)

Its Nice That -
Barney McCann visits the modern day mods in his series (2016)

Stitch -
The Mods - Barney McCann (2016)

Creative Boom -
’We Are The Mods: Uncovering Britain's most stylish subculture’ (2017)

Theses, Journals, Dissertations, Academic Papers and Workshops on or referencing my work

‘AI and Society; design to help shape the future’
Visiting Lecturer/Workshops with BA Graphic Design students at Leeds Arts University (2022)

’Part of the Furniture - Surveillance in Digital Context’
- Thesis by Madeline Montoya for the BFA in Communication Design at Washington Univeristy in St. Louis (2019)

'Computer Generated Imagery in Live VJ Performance’
- A Master’s Thesis by Anil Özdem at the Department of Communication and Design İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University Ankara (May 2017)

’Artificial Intelligence and Media Philosophy’
Communication Design at the University of the Arts Karlsruhe (2019)

PUBLIC 46: On Collecting Media Art
(Aug 2020)

‘On Collecting Media Art’
- A Paper written by Christoph Amon in (August 2018)

‘Controllers as Musical Instruments, Controllerism as Musical Practice – Practices of a new 21st Century musical culture’
- A Masters Dissertation by Guillermo de Llera Blanes at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (September 2018)

‘The Future of Design; New Forms’
- A MFA Thesis by Tony Strauss. Media and Design at Bilkent University (2018)

‘Digital Culture - Pioneers’
- A paper by Julie Odebote (2019)

‘Visual Culture and Digital Academia in the 2000s’
- A paper by Anna Brockwell

‘Make Mistakes’
- Workshop at ESF Design Day (Hong Kong
2016)

‘Make Mistakes Again’
- Workshop at ESF Design Day (Hong Kong 2017)