Brad Hammond

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About Brad Hammond

Brad Hammond is a Melbourne based creative technologist, teacher and artist with a strong focus on interactive works and community building. After honing his skills in the games industry for 6 years, he left to explore the forefront of technology through the creation of interactive experiences for artistic and commercial purposes. Brad’s portfolio encompasses a wide variety of mediums including games, projection mapping, electronic microcontrollers, 3D printing, experimental digital sculpture, virtual reality experiences, real world interactive sculpture and generative artworks. This varied approach to arts and commercial practice is driven by an insatiable curiosity and desire to learn and create with the technologies that drive human and social evolution. In 2012 Brad co-founded Ethno Tekh with Chris Vik. Ethno Tekh was founded on a philosophy of evolving and sharing new forms of expressive human/digital interactions. Since the inception of Ethno Tekh they have exhibited works around the world including CeBit Germany 2013, Pause Fest 2011 - 2015, Dark Mofo Hobart 2013, Republika Fest Croatia 2013, Vivid 2014 and Light in Winter 2014. In recent years Brad has developed a passion for community building as a means of bringing people together to share ideas, inspiration and skills. This is evidenced by is work with the Melbourne Library Service, helping to develop workshops for their new makerspaces and computer labs, founding and administering an online generative arts group of over members and his work with Media Lab Melbourne.