field notes

“Indeed, one of the major failures of the twentieth century was the inability to articulate the almost standardized ecological thinking endowed with a strong European humanism; technology was received as…

on view last month at DER TANK: The Centre for Art Gender and Nature as part of @HEK_Basel’s #MESHFESTIVAL

Been feeling kinda quiet since I got back from the northernmost north; amongst capturing the experience through moving image, sound, it was necessary to experience the Arctic Svalbard without editorialising,…

Preparing for an expedition to the Arctic Circle in June; thinking about movement, ice, climate, and time. Views over Iceland omw to Toronto for #robarch2024

silk fibroin-based flexible electronics

Silk fibroin is an insoluble protein produced by Bombyx mori silkworm. It is the major component of the silkworm cocoon. Due to its unique structural properties, low immunogenicity and stability at low pH, Silk fibroin has several applications in both textile industry and biochemical research. Thaw slowly at 2-8 °C then swirl content to mix. Do not vortex.

fieldnotes relational modes, real and imagined i. Exquisite Corpus performanceii. A language of linesiii. Sprouting — Hexagram 3 — First I CHING reading of 2024iv. diagramv. Studiomatevi. except from the…

physical manifestation of my speculative robotics series (ongoing) Still entranced by the tactility of rapid prototyping, visual properties of clear resin. Maybe glass next? Title: #kathyackerImage: Resin print of sculpture created…

..Inspired by xenobots– constructed of frog cells, computational organisms. Machines made of silicon with proto-cognitive capabilities. How might these nano-organisms “think” differently — think alongside our own wetware, differently? And…

Inspired by the materiality of the Mantis shrimp. A research process of energy conservation through it’s internal geometric structure. (elastic to kinetic energy conversion through bio-mimicy)..modelled in VR, converting to…

// my last performance of Exquisite Corpus with D.O.U.G._4 // I sometimes wonder what the next performance will be like, after a year of lockdown. Exquisite Corpus was the first…

..People sometimes ask me how drawing with D.O.U.G. has changed my process. Here’s and image of me preparing some installation drawings (#chiaro_oscuro) from a decade ago. Breaking out from software…

..Building interactions implies sovereignty, detachments disguised as world-building– God-mode. vs Building (inter)Relation. Implies inclusion, ” I” is situated within the relation. Dynamics of relations — equitable relationships, requires trust and…

.. “This flood of convergences, publishing itself in the guise of the commonplace. No longer is the latter an accepted generality, suitable and dull no longer is it deceptively obvious,…

… ¹ Still from a private performance in a Mexican jungle² grasping SECOND NATURE, AR experiments in Lockdown³ drawing a memory⁴ excerpt from Anna Anlin Cheng’s Ornamentalism..” What happens to…

feat. Drawing Operations (robotic) Unit, Generation 4Paintings as sound compositions Referencing John Cage’s Fontina Mix, 1958, a provocation for “musical scores of indeterminacy”, these experiments were created in collaboration with…

Intertwining my meditation and art practice. They’re both simple interventions that shape my days — alternating between varying states of flow, alternatives to the addiction to control, reliance on certainty

I used to draw differently.My approach to drawing and machine learning, data, and robotics started as a way to evolve my drawing ability by designing artificial intelligence systems, to explore…

Learning shelter, communal thinking, escapist magical realism // mycelial machinations — wild / life // witness & unfurl — terrestrial microbial worlds — ( shelter-in-place ) // Music by @a_q_u_a_r_i_a_n //…

Corpus I from the series ( distance ) in place, 2020, graphite on paper | collaboration with D.O.U.G._5. All images courtesy of the artist. As external realities we once knew have dissolved…

. . During quarantine, I’ve been gazing at the city through its public cameras, searching for absence of crowds. It’s an activity that offers some small assurance that people outside…

Missing this peaceful moment from my last performance. I like that the image captures the inherent stillness of the process of drawing. Despite uncertainty, the lines are grounding..I’m slowly working…

I’ve been recording my EEG data while meditating a few times a day in isolation. When I do, I see visions of microbial cells, vertiginous circuits, plants / machines co-naturality….

( Noticing attunes us to worlds otherwise ). . Conservation status: vulnerableReproduction: sexual and asexualCarnivorous plantLifespan: 20 years .

.Thinking about starting a drawing live stream from my studio in Brooklyn, a space to draw together as I iterate and experiment with new performance concepts around telepresence and sound…

🌹 as simulation, mutualism, mutation, process, and memory . ~ Process artefact from upcoming project exploring biometrics and digitized organic material .~ Slow motion capture of a bee pollination in…