Hugh Mcgrory

Hugh McGrory innovates at the intersection of emerging media, art and technology. His work as an artist has evolved from film and photography through virtual reality and artificial intelligence.



Hugh navigates these spaces searching for opportunities to enhance rather than replace human creativity. He is inspired by efforts to democratize the media production process and enable more people to have access to simple, inclusive, affordable and transformative tools. Hugh believes that creativity is healing and that broader access to these technologies can have meaningful societal impact. His art aims to start conversations around how we could bring the best of our human creativity, imagination and compassion to work in tandem with machine intelligence.

Hugh ran Make, a film and animation studio in collaboration with computer artist Glenn Marshall in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he directed and produced award-winning experimental short films. Moving to New York City in 2008, he curated audiovisual interactive installations during Art Basel and Volta Art Fair in New York, Miami and Switzerland. Highlights include screening work by Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) in 2011 - 10 years before he sold an NFT at Christie's for $69 milli...