Research Catalogue

I am an artist and researcher whose interdisciplinary work brings together the fields of Computational Aesthetics, Software Studies, Environmental Practice, Feminist TechnoScience and Feminist Materialisms. My practice is both one of writing and making and these two modes mutually inform each other in order to consider the impact of computational regimes. Central to my work is the consideration of co-research, participation and the performativity of code in computational ecologies. My practice sometimes emerges as workshops, collaborative events and computational art.  

I am currently completeing a Phd. on 'Animal Hackers' in Geography at Queen Mary and am a researcher  in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, on the European Research Council Project, Citizen Sensing and Environmental Practice. My interdisciplinary dissertation on “Animal Hackers” draws on the work of Karen Barad, Lauren Berlant and Gilbert Simondon to consider the entanglement of more-than-humans with ubiquitous computing. Examining the practices of “environmental data” that emerge in the context of communicative capitalism from planetary-scale computational ecologies.

As an artist I have shown work internationally including DA Fest ,International festival of Digital Art, (Bulgaria), Spacex (UK), Microwave Festival (Hong Kong, ACA Florida, (USA), Arnolfini Online (UK). I have previously held associate lectureships in Art, Technology and Critical Studies at Plymouth University (where I was a member of Kurator)  and Dartington College of Arts. In  2013 I was a visiting researcher at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.

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