Beatie Wolfe

”Musical weirdo and visionary” (Vice) Beatie Wolfe has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation, and held an acclaimed solo exhibition of her ‘world first’ album designs at the Victoria & Albert Museum

Named by WIRED Magazine as one of “22 people changing the world,” Wolfe is at the forefront of pioneering new formats that bridge the physical and digital, which include: a 3D theatre for the palm of your hand; a wearable record jacket cut by Bowie/Hendrix’s tailor out of fabric woven with Wolfe’s music; the world’s first 360 AR live-stream from the quietest room on earth and a space broadcast via the Big Bang horn.

Wolfe’s latest innovation is an environmental protest piece visualising 800,000 years of climate data, which premiered at the Nobel Prize Summit, the London Design Biennale and COP26

Other recent projects include a collective postcard art campaign in support of USPS with DEVO’s Mark Mothersbaugh and the world’s first bioplastic record release with Michael Stipe and Brian Eno.

Wolfe is also the co-founder of a “profound” (The Times) research project looking at the power of music for dementia

She recently spoke, performed and showed her work The Nobel Prize Summit and was introduced by the Nobel Prize laureate Robert Woodrow Wilson.

Wolfe’s latest innovation is an environmental protest piece built using 800,000 years of climate data to visualize rising CO2 levels, which premiered at the Nobel Prize Summit, the London Design Biennale and COP26. Other recent projects include a collective art campaign in support of USPS with Mark Mothersbaugh and the world’s first bioplastic record release with Michael Stipe. Wolfe is also the co-founder of a “profound” (The Times) research project looking at the power of music for dementia.

The Barbican commissioned a documentary about Beatie Wolfe’s pioneering work and approach which has been featured globally including New York Times, Wired, New Scientist, GQ, Fast Company, The Nation, Billboard, Rolling Stone, BBC News, Cool Hunting, Dezeen, The Independent, The Times of London, Los Angeles Times, CBS, Pitchfork, RTE, Channel 4 News, Sky News, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, USA Today, Variety, Evening Standard, VICE, Wallpaper, TechCrunch, The Art Newspaper, Design Milk, Forbes, NPR, Recode, Monocle etc

Beatie Wolfe: From Green to Red

As part of the VDF collaboration with Beatie Wolfe, the singer-songwriter has shared this exclusive preview of From Green to Red, a forthcoming interactive environmental protest installation. Created for this year’s London Design Biennale, the project sets to music NASA data showing how atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide have increased over the past 800,000 years. For VDF, Wolfe has prepared a special movie preview of the installation. This features a digital timeline that visualises the dramatic increase in CO2 in the atmosphere over the preceding 8,000 centuries, “reimagining both the music-video format and protest song,” according to Wolfe. “It’s part music video, part protest song and entirely a statement of our time,” said Wolfe. The title of the project comes from Wolfe’s track From Green To Red, which explores climate-change denial and which Wolfe wrote after seeing the 2006 climate-change documentary An Inconvenient Truth. “We don’t want to hear that the problem is us,” Wolfe sings in the track. “So we live like we want in our own universe.” From Green To Red has been produced in collaboration with visual-effects studio The Mill and will premiere at the 2020 London Design Biennale, which is due to take place at Somerset House in London from 8 to 27 September 2020 and is directed this year by theatre designer Es Devlin.