Calum Bowden is an artist, designer, and researcher molding organizations as a medium. He co-founded Trust, a platform for utopian thinkers and practitioners, collaborating on games, digital tools, decision-making mechanisms, and methods for cooperative knowledge exchange. From 2020-2023, Calum was a maintainer of Black Swan DAO, a collective pursuing horizontal and decentralized approaches to art making. In this way, Calum creates infrastructures that relink culture, technology, and political economy. He advises cultural organizations on digital communities, para-institutions, and DAOs, facilitating co-design workshops, conferences, and role-playing games.

Calum has worked with institutions as diverse as HKW Berlin, Serpentine Galleries London, New Inc at the New Museum, Museion Bolzano, HEK Basel, DWeb, CTM Berlin, and the Natural History Museums of Berlin and Paris. His independent work has been presented in art and design contexts internationally, including RUPERT (2024), INDEX Biennial of Art and Technology (2022), Istanbul Design Biennale (2020), and New Contemporaries (2017).