Y7 (Hannah Cobb & Declan Colquitt) are a duo based in Manchester, UK, working across emergent technology and technological anthropology. They examine how technologies reshape social, philosophical, and aesthetic life: how AI disrupts authorship, how physical and digital spaces optimise away from the human, and how creative practices are reoriented by economic forces.
Alongside their AV works, they maintain a writing practice rooted in cultural criticism, media theory, political theory, and philosophy. Their writing has appeared in publications and platforms such as 032c, Flash Art, and Do Not Research. In 2025 they were invited by commissioner Shumon Basar to co-curate the Global Art Forum programme in Dubai, titled ‘The New New Normal’, where they invited leading practitioners and thinkers to take part in a series of talks, panels, and discussions.
They also run Conclave and Technologist Social, a cross-disciplinary reading group and network in Manchester connecting artists, theorists, and technologists.
