Artists

Y 7

Y7 is an artist-writer duo based in Manchester, UK, working across emergent technology, cultural criticism, and audiovisual experimentation. They examine how technologies and systems reshape social and cultural fields: how AI disrupts authorship, how physical and digital spaces optimise away from the human, and how creative practices are reoriented by economic forces, writing cultural criticism for publications such as 032c, Flash Art, and Do Not Research. In 2025 they were invited by commissioner Shumon Basar to co-curate the Global Art Forum programme in Dubai, titled 'The New New Normal'. They also run Conclave, a cross-disciplinary reading group and network connecting artists, theorists, and technologists.