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, without narrative. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 / 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘵. So …
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 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 …
[Verse 1]We three, we're all aloneLiving in a memoryMy echo, my shadow, and me [Verse 2]We three, we're not a crowdWe're not even companyMy echo, my shadow, and me [Bridge]What good is the moonlightThe silvery moonlightThat shines above?I walk with my shadowI talk with my echoBut where is …
captured my own movements as spatial data to create these GENESIS sculptural forms — each piece is an array of positions, gestures, traces of the body in physical space
I've been drawing sculptures in air inspired by animalia and myth; the tail of a serpent as ouroboros, eternal return, eclipsing time.
to travel to the next solar eclipse in Spain, August 12, 2026, after convos w David Pfau Below is a crescent-laden photo from the last one at Bell Labs Laureate garden with Lindsay Howard during my residency New Museum in 2017 ~
detritus & mechanism, today; morning light and tracing sculptural encasings for cocoons, trying to give my silkworms a good life while they're here, before death and/or metamorphosis
Learning how to form habitats; Studies in observation, metamorphosis and care #ROS
captured my own movements as spatial data to create these GENESIS sculptural forms — each piece is an array of positions, gestures, traces of the body in physical space
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 Twofold Commitment by Trinh T. Minh-havii. Scan of the wild, Tepoztlán mountains
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 in #VR
..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 what role does anthropomorphism have in our ability to conceive of such inventions? .modelled in VR, converting to …
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 AR prototype for a physical build soon #ecologiesofbecomingwith #speculativerobotics
// 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 time I brought in biometric data into the work. my heart rate and brainwave data were linked to …
..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 into gesture, back to drawing, space and tactile form felt revelatory then; more real than what I could …
..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 necessitates attachment, recognition, collaboration. "I" invests in "we".
.. "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, exploiting common sense-it is, rather, all that is relentlessly and endlessly reiterated by these encounters. On every side …
... 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 our notions of the subject when carnality is cultivated not out of flesh but from its fusion 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 collaboration with a robotic unit.Since the pandemic, my focus has been on the possibilities of robots as a …
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 // mycelium electron microscopy // // Exploration vs deprivation // Cognitive bias as sensory deprivation, a form of sense-making …
witness & unfurl -- terrestrial microbial worlds -- ( shelter-in-place ) // // petal pirouette --wild / life // / orchid formations embedded in air / . #artstudio #wildlife #drawing #ecologiesofbecomingwith #mixedreality #virtualreality #augmentedreality #orchidformation
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 and fragmented over the span of months, a sudden reframing of intimacy has become inevitable. Enforced cohabiting with …
. . 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 of my periphery might be staying safe at home, and the sense that I am there, somehow. . …
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 on a tele-present version of the performance while sheltering in place during the lockdown and hope to share …
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. ..Preparation for an upcoming tele-present performance ~Music by @aquarianyes. #florarearingagriculturalnetwork #farmingwithfran #drawingwithfran #humanmachinecollaboration #flora #eegmeditations
( 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 meditation... How can we create a collective space of exploration, care, and sanctuary without physical proximity? ..
🌹 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 Lahore, Pakistan.~ Drawing study (for an upcoming dataset). ~ Diagram from Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Bio-technology, and the Mutations …
