Chris Follows

Biography

Chris Follows, Senior Educational Developer (Emerging Technologies) at University of the Arts London (UAL, CCW), exploring the integration of new technologies into arts practice, including design, performance and art. Chris established the Digital Maker Collective (DMC) in 2016 and was invited to be a Tate Exchange associate in 2017, where he curated several large-scale creative tech events, over four years at Tate Modern and Tate Britain. Chris is co-founder of artsXR, an immersive production studio.

His art practice, explores the creative relationships between hand-made, code and AI Art. He has Mesh Paintings in corporate and private collections and has exhibited at the National Maritime Museum and Cork Street, London. Chris's digital mesh paintings can be found in web3 collections across multiple blockchains, his digital works have been exhibited at NFT Paris, Feb 2023, Beeple studio in Charleston, SC, Sept 2023 and NFT NYC, April 2024, NFC Lisbon - Echoes of Light, June 2025.

Chris is the first point of contact for technology partners to support and facilitate engagement in research and knowledge exchange projects and partnerships across the colleges, help maintain the colleges at the foreground of emergent technologies through the facilitation of both formal and informal collaborations. Support the work of academic colleagues in their engagement with and use of emerging technologies in learning and teaching.

Chris was the Principle Investigator of 'Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, 'Accessible immersive learning for art and design' project

Chris Follows was a Co-Investigator EU funded Open Design & Manufacturing Project, Central Saint Martins, Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, London N1C 4AA