Non Random
WE SPECIALISE IN
Technology
Arts
Science
Design
Speculative Futures
Performance
Interactive Narratives
Our Approach
The Non Random Artist collective, consisting of Linda O’Keeffe, Ashley James Brown, Tony Doyle, and Ines Montalvao, delves into the intersections between the arts and diverse fields such as astrophysics, genetics, urban planning, ecology, climate change, technological adaptation, AI, and design futures. Our projects have investigated cosmic changes, renewable energy technologies, climate adaptation, social inclusion in urban planning, and the soundscapes of gender and class in post-colonial contexts.
We engage with a wide array of communities, encompassing artists, geneticists, legal ethicists, anthropologists, social scientists, astrophysicists, individuals living with disabilities or supporting those who do, and various local communities across all age groups. Our creative process involves speculative design and envisioning potential futures, focusing on climate change, global transformations, altered ecosystems, space travel, terraforming, the human condition, natural ecosystems, urban space design, and social dynamics.
Our work includes developing interactive workshops and discussions to tackle complex social and ecological issues. We employ innovative methodologies that utilise creative arts techniques, integrating our expertise in sound design, music composition, game interactivity, live coding, drawing, writing and curating. This approach brings diverse perspectives into dialogue and fosters spaces for imagining alternative futures.
Our art blends aesthetics, interactivity, and environmental engagement, encompassing 2D and 3D art, sound design, audio-visual artworks, game-based art, music, performative works, illustration, live coding, and data sonification creating therefore a multitude of haptic and transformative narrative environments. As a collective of makers and thinkers, we are committed to challenging and redefining engagement with complex social, ecological, and technological concepts.
Meet the Artists
Working within communities, she creates spaces for shared practice and ideas.
As a feminist theorist, she advocates for inclusive engagement, emphasising the voices of marginalised communities, especially regarding ecological disasters.
As a creative coder, Tony uses machine learning to explore algorithmic potentials and interpretation of scientific understandings through sonic landscapes and interactive performances.
Ines focuses her creative practice in the field of art-science: with a background in Biology and a thrill for art, she combines both, exploring cross-disciplinary approaches, storytelling, illustration and innovative ways to create narrative environments that enact emotions and enable meaningful experiences.
She is also co-founder of Mandarina Collective and project Lingua Plantae.
His work is participatory and co-creative and looks at themes of mental health, nostalgia, playfulness and inclusivity.
Ashley uses code and electronics to explore the aesthetic potentials of the future and employs game psychology to build compelling playful narrative experiences.