Ghislaine Boddington is a passionate advocate for transforming the living body into an interactive digital canvas. As a leading expert in digital identity and virtual interaction, she has captivated audiences since the early 1990s with her visionary insights into the digital representation of our future selves. Through her dynamic roles as a speaker, researcher, podcaster, consultant, and curator, Ghislaine explores the fascinating fusion of our physical and digital identities, continually reshaping our understanding of interaction and identity within a vibrant, hybrid society.

    She expertly integrates her professorial research at the University of Greenwich and Kingston University into public-facing engagements and wider industry consulting. Formerly a co-host of the BBC’s famed Digital Planet radio show/podcast, Ghislaine continues to shape the narrative on the digital-physical human condition through her regular contributions to the BBC, including documentaries for BBC World Service and the inclusive global tech podcast, Somewhere on Earth. Read more →

    “Ghislaine Boddington believes fully that body intelligence is a key part of making collective intelligence work and she’s spent the past 30 years proving it. Beautiful, elegant, funny and dynamic, Ghislaine speaks 70+ times a year around the world and serves as a frequent advisor for universities, organizations, major tech companies and start-ups.” Western Bonime (Forbes)

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    Testimonials

    “As Ghislaine Boddington, creative director of body>data>space, noted in her talk on virtual reality and the “Internet of Bodies”, the hope for the future is in recognising and augmenting physical bodies in games and play.“

    Jordan Erica Webber and Kat Brewster (The Guardian)

    “Ghislaine Boddington, curator of the “future of love” section of the FutureFest, said [that] the aim is to look at things that aren’t around the corner but up to 30 years away and broaden horizons.”

    Cahal Milmo (Chief Reporter for The Independent)

    “Ms Boddington is a pioneer in immersive technology, which emulates the physical environment through a digital or simulated world. …… [Her] vision of the future is one where people talk interchangeably about their digital and physical selves, a world in which microchips embedded under your skin enable you to have a physical relationship with another person remotely.”

    Serena Tarling (Financial Times)

    “Boddington paints a fascinating picture of a world and believes that our quest to augment our existence and indulge in new experiences will lead us to turn our bodies into “digital interaction canvas.”

    Alice Bonasio (Eitor in Chief of Tech Trends)

    “While everyone was marveling that we could land on the moon, Ghislaine was marveling that we could speak to someone ON the moon. Thus began her interest in Telepresence. A performance artist she has explored the possibilities of virtual enhancement of our senses and ways to bring together body data like touch, movement, gesture, emotion and empathy through convergences of robotics, wearables, telepresence, hepatic and virtual reality since the mid-nineties. Through these projects, she has created moving and transformational links between thousands of people across the world.”

    Western Bonime (Forbes)

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