Hannah Cobb
Hannah Cobb is a generalist whose practice explores the emergence of new digital technologies and their wider cultural and social implications through speculative fiction and documentary-style analysis. Hannah works across film, digital 3D design, sound, live performance and writing, and often experiments with the use of Generative AI models trained on her previous work. Hannah has worked as a live and recording session musician for 3 years, touring the US, EU and UK. She is 1/2 of the artist-writer-curator duo Y7 with Declan Colquitt and is based in Manchester, UK.
In 2023, Hannah Cobb collaborated on Shumon Basar's Lorecore Trilogy for the Zora Zine residency and created Report 5923, a feature-length sci-fi film based on Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed, made with funding from Elevenlabs and developed using generative AI tools. The following year, she was commissioned to produce six one-minute short films for Global Art Forum, titled Whether Reports, while Report 5923 was shortlisted for both The Lumen Prize and the SOLO AI Award. In 2024, she also took part in the Samarbeta residency in Salford, in partnership with IKLEKTIK, Salford Museum & Art Gallery, and Hybrid Futures, spoke at Unsound Festival in Krakow on Post-Music (later published in 032c), and co-organised and produced a zine for Open Secret’s touring internet cinema programme across London, Edinburgh, and Manchester. Most recently, in 2025, Cobb curated the 18th edition of the Global Art Forum under the title The New New Normal and was commissioned to create a new work for May AI Help You, an exhibition presented by Patchlab and FutureEverything in Krakow, Poland. Y7 are currently working on design strategy for Cream Projects' book Too Many Humans, and Hannah is working as part of the team at new London arts venue Ibraaz.