Ghislaine Boddington
Ghislaine Boddington is a British artist, curator, and director. She is the Co-founder and Creative Director of body>data>space and Women Shift Digital. She has worked across the fields of digital performance, immersive experiences, and body-technology interaction. Her main focus is the integration of the human body withdigital technologiesthrough performing arts, design, and innovation. Her focus is on the living bodies' evolutions and that we need to explore the ethics of all physical-digital interactions. Her message for decades has been that "the body is the interface”
As a curator and researcher, she has led severalEUand UK-funded projects that explored telepresence, collective experience, and virtual-physical blending. She initiated and co-directed the EU project 'Robots and Avatars', which examined how humans collaborate with robots and avatars in working and learning environments. Her EU Project 'Post Me-New ID' explored futures where technology deepens human connections.
She has also directed and produced ‘me and my shadow’ (2012), a pioneering telepresence project connecting people simultaneously in four different cities using motion capture and digital interaction tools. She was a lead curator for Nesta’s FutureFest in London, where she presented future concepts and interactive installations related to identity, intimacy, trust and immersive futures.
She also wrote and presented the BBC World Service 'The DocumentaryMe and My Digital Twin’, which first aired on 30 November 2024 (now available on BBC Sounds and podcatchers) and investigated the use of AI hybrid digital twins in shaping self-expression, health, identity, and legacy. Her research work continues with keynotes and consultancies about digital human twins taking place into numerous sectors globally.
Ghislaine has contributed to various advisory boards and committees related to creative industries, arts and technology, and digital culture. She has worked on innovative direction of projects with institutions such as theEuropean Commission, Arts Council England, British Council, Goethe Institute and Innovate UK amongst others. She has also worked with educational institutions and universities, delivering lectures, workshops, and presentations internationally. Her long term and foresight-driven expertise is sought globally, with keynote invitations and collaborations in 35+ countries. She has worked with corporate, arts/culture, creative industry, academic and institutional clients.
Ghislaine is an active Trustee for Stemette Futures. She is an Associate Editor for AI & Society (Springer-guest-editing its 2025 special issue on digital human twins), and a member of the UK Government's DCMS College of Experts.
Her publications include contributions to Palgrave Macmillan, AI&Society (Springer), Virtual Creativity, and the British Council’s Creative Economy Reports, focusing on digital twins, presence, and human-data interaction in immersive environments. Her article, The Internet of Bodies - Alive, Connected, Collective: The Virtual Physical Future of Our Bodies and Our Senses (AI & Society, Springer, ISSN 0951-5666, DOI: 10.1007/s00146-020-01137-1, February 4, 2021), has been accessed over 16,000 times and has received more than 100 citations. She also serves as Lead Editor for a special collection in AI&Society (Springer) titled Digital Human Twins – Our Future Data Selves.
She was an Associate Fellow at Middlesex University from 1999 to 2009. She has pursued further research in digital interaction and body-technology integration at the University of Greenwich as a Reader. She also has co-evolved academic programmes in media, live performance and creative technology.
