Dr Julie Freeman is founder of ShapedSound. She is the inventor of Sonaforms®—sculptural sonic furniture that redefines connection, inclusion and play, through sound you can touch.

As an artist she works with natural living systems and emergent technologies. Her large scale immersive installations, sound sculptures and online artworks have, since the early 1990s, pioneered her conceptual and critical approach to working with sound and real-time data as living and malleable art materials.

Julie has shown work at leading institutions including the V&A, ICA, Modern Art Oxford, Barbican and Science Museum, as well as internationally. She has been widely recognised in the media including The Guardian, BBC, Vogue and New Scientist.

Julie is a co-founder of Fine Acts, a TED Senior Fellow, and runs Translating Nature, a digital and data art studio.