Stacy Jo Scott
Stacy Jo Scott is an artist and currently an assistant professor at the University of Oregon. She uses ceramic objects and digital processes as anchors from which to navigate shifting landscapes of queerness, embodiment, and spectrality. These objects emerge from research, digital processes, trance practices, and chance operations. Her work revolves around imaging the ephemeral body and speculating on queer lineages and futurities. The speculative nature of her inquiries is grounded in confounding the relationship between clay’s materiality and the supposed purity of machinic code. Stacy Jo explores how digital media renders embodiment, and how computational tools can be used to convey illegible histories or mythic futures. She employs the more ancient skills of hand-working clay alongside generative software tools, unorthodox 3D printing, and CNC hacks. The idiosyncrasies of clay interrupt the numeric logic of the machine, looping it back into a queered transient world of direct embodied experience.
Sigrid Espelien
Sigrid Espelien is an artist and a PhD fellow in artistic research at the Art and Craft department at Oslo National Academy of Art. She went to the Glass and Ceramics Scool at Bornholm in Denmark 2005-08 and received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, USA in 2012. From 2013 she´s been working with the blueclay in Oslo and Norway that she found in construction sites, river beds and landfills. The clay contains stories of city development, geology, archeology, industry and sci fi speculations. Her research project “Grounding with blueclay” is about connecting with clay as something more than a material for art production but also as land, soil and territory. She´s looking at ways of reading the blue clay through the site, the body and technology.