Caroline Sinders and Romy Gad el Rab (UK Associates) are artists and researchers who have been collaborating since 2019. Together, they combine expertise in human rights technology, clinical research on technology addictions, and design to create public interventions that explore the human impact of large-scale technology systems, centering care and human agency.
Caroline Sinders is an artist and human rights technologist focused on intersectional justice, design, and policy, particularly how technology disproportionately harms marginalized communities. They have worked with organisations such as the United Nations, Harvard University, the European Commission, and the Mozilla Foundation. Romy Gad el Rab is a Psychiatrist, designer, and researcher, specialising in the harmful effects of technology, particularly at the NHS National Centre for Internet Gaming Disorders, while also conducting research at King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience. She is a former resident of Somerset House studios as part of Hyphen-labs, an international team of women using technology, art, science, and futurism to test the boundaries of physical and digital space.
During the Delfina Residency, Caroline and Romy will expand their collaborative work on care-centered approaches to technology, aiming to create transparency around the emotional harm caused by social media. They plan to use clinical and policy research alongside speculative design to explore how art can make the often invisible anxieties and emotional effects of technology tangible. Their project will include social media anxiety workshops that engage policymakers, researchers, artists, and the public, producing artistic outputs such as speculative design interventions, creative documentation, and new feminist digital governance models.
Their previous partnership includes collaboration with Hyphen-Labs to lead Tate Modern’s Tate Exchange program in 2019 with a public installation on digital privacy, as well as hosting workshops on care-based social media protocols at the Internet Age Media Conference. Their individual accomplishments span exhibitions, fellowships, and publications across art, design, and mental health.
Romy was born in Saudi Arabia, of Egyptian and Scottish heritage, and is based in London.
Caroline was born in New Orleans, and is based between London and New Orleans.
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