Bio
André Piza is Senior Research Community Manager, Arts and Humanities, in the Tools Practices and Systems Programme. As part of the Data-Culture project, Andre is working on various initiatives to develop the UK’s computational research capacity for the Arts and Humanities (A&H).
He joined the Turing in 2018 to manage Living with Machines, the AHRC’s largest investment in Digital Humanities. This project later led to Data-Culture, a programme aiming to accelerate research innovation by developing skills, infrastructure and communities around data and digital tools. Previously, he has managed major international creative and research projects at People’s Palace Projects, an arts research centre based at Queen Mary University of London where he also worked as Knowledge Exchange Manager for the Creative Industries. His work there included collaborating with arts organizations, policy institutions, and independent artists and activists.
He has written about cultural exchange practice in The Art of Cultural Exchange (2019) and is an Organiser of the Turing’s AI&Arts interest group, a community of 400 researchers, practitioners and policymakers working in the intersection of all arts disciplines and data science.
