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Biography<\/h3>

Emily Bold (she\/they) is an interdisciplinary performer and artist from Manchester. Their work has been best described via a YouTube comment: \u201cviscerally unpleasant. good stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Current projects include Bad Science, a theatre piece exploring the political abuse of psychiatry in the context of big data and surveillance, and Deviant Diners, a solo mixed-media project on neuroqueer experiences with food, shown as part of A Modest Show, the official collateral programme to the BAS09.<\/p>\n

Emily also works as a creative captioner and began their career creating disabled-led work and offering access consultancy across the North West. They regularly collaborate with emerging artists from stand-up, poetry, and music, and have performed at HOME MCR, Unity Theatre, Royal Exchange Theatre, The Lowry, and the National Student Drama Festival.<\/p><\/div>

Emily Bold<\/h1>

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My current focus is Bad Science, a multimedia theatre piece exploring how science and technology can be misused by institutions to further bias. It draws from historical examples of political abuse of psychiatry and examines how these issues re-emerge within surveillance and big data.<\/p>\n

I aim to extend my existing aesthetic\u2014projection, video, creative captioning, and audience interaction\u2014through creative coding, image analysis, and facial-recognition software in live, narrative-driven performance. I also want to collaborate with experts in psychiatry, data science, surveillance, and policy to depict their concerns accurately and accessibly.<\/p>\n

The first work-in-progress premiered at HOME Manchester during PUSH Festival 2025, featuring projection, creative captions, and integrated sound and lighting. It explored the ease with which psychiatry\u2019s language can be co-opted to discredit dissent, connecting this manipulation to modern surveillance and data profiling.<\/p>\n

Through further research, I am now investigating how audiences can experience surveillance live\u2014via cameras, object detection, and real-time emotion tracking\u2014to reveal how data both reflects and distorts human behaviour. I also explore algorithmic bias through humour and absurdity, maintaining critique without harm.<\/p>\n

Being part of BEYOND Emerging Innovators will accelerate this research through collaboration with experts who share my belief that art should expose, question, and translate the hidden systems shaping our post-truth, tech-driven world.<\/p>\n\t\t

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Emily Bold is an autistic and neurodivergent theatre-maker from Manchester whose work spans performance, creative captioning, video, design, and music. Her debut production, Bad Science, satirises the weaponisation of psychiatry and data to control dissent. After sell-out previews at HOME Manchester (2025), Emily is developing the show\u2019s interdisciplinary and interactive scope, fusing theatre, politics, and technology to challenge the authority of big data through playful, politically charged CreaTech.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t

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