Experience

FutureEverything

• United Kingdom
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chairperson of the Board

  • Jun 2021 - Present



King's College London

• United Kingdom
• Research Services

• Artistic Director Audience Labs & Visiting Senior Research Fellow in Culture and Creative Industries

  • Oct 2021 - Present



Royal Opera House

• United Kingdom
• Performing Arts
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Audience Labs

  • Feb 2018 - Sep 2021

  The Audience Labs experiments with immersive technology opening up new experiences, rooted in ballet and opera, for new audiences. The Lab aims to develop innovative, exciting artistic digital work created through unusual collaborations with diverse partners. The Audience Labs experiments with immersive technology opening up new experiences, rooted in ballet and opera, for new audiences. The Lab aims to develop innovative, exciting artistic digital work created through unusual collaborations with diverse partners.



The Space / WIRED

• The Space / WIRED Creative Fellow

  • Jul 2015 - Jul 2016

  Annette Mees was awarded on of the inaugural The Space/WIRED Creative Fellowship. During her fellowship she explored future forecasting, speculative fiction and the interaction between fiction and the arts. The future is the ultimate public space, something we all have a stake in and seek to be part of. But it is also a fictional place – it doesn’t yet exist. Annette specialises in how art and artists can collaborate with scientists and specialists in creating diverse versions of possible futures. Among other things she worked on Future Assembly; a UK-wide project brings together teens and over-65s, to explore the Future they would like to exist 50 years from now. Collectively over 100 collaborators creates a Manifesto for the the Future.Future Assemblies brought creative processes and a fiercely optimistic attitude to future foresighting. This project was developed within The Space/WIRED Creative Fellowship



Coney Ltd

• United Kingdom

• Co-Director

  • 2008 - Jun 2015

  I was artistic director of Coney; an award-winning company of adventure and play which puts the audience at the centre of every experience. Coney mixes live and digital art forms to create immersive stories and play for diverse audiences. These can happen anywhere at any time: in buildings or out in the world. Within Coney I focused on large scale project and the development new interactive narratives and experiential models, with diverse interdisciplinary teams and the integration of digital technology and theatrical live events.In the past decade she has developed, produced and directed projects, leading diverse many interdisciplinary teams in collaboration with Tate Britain, Kensington Palace, UK Parliament, 01SJ San Jose Biennial, King’s College, Warwick University, Goldsmith’s University, Battersea Arts Centre, Inbetween Time Festival, LIFT Festival, New Art Gallery Wallsall, Warwick Arts Centre, many theatres and audiences everywhere