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👋🤖 Artist + Curator + Creative/Digital Producer
❤️💙 Co-founder @compilerzone
🌐👾 Researching @csni_research
📷 🎞️ Enjoying 35mm in my off-screen time

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🌀 As creative software becomes increasingly automated, how do we build creative skills that stay adaptable, critical, and future-facing? 🌀

Across 13-16 March, we co-produced and delivered Making Weird Work: Art & Technology Jam with the Emerging Media Space and a wonderful team of academics, technicians, students and graduates @uniwestminster.

We brought together students across the Westminster School of Arts to work in interdisciplinary teams and develop experimental prototypes blending different skills and approaches. Using 3D scanning as a starting point, students brought their practices into digital spaces and prototyped artworks with unexpected outcomes, pushing into hybrid directions: 3D modelling, game engines, physical computing and projection mapping.

We enjoyed tapping into different types of aesthetic and technical weirdness across disciplines while exploring emerging technologies and developing new creative methods.

Big thanks to @hellocatfood and @tinapulejkova for generous support to students, and for inspiring talks that opened up rich conversations about hybridity in artistic practice and working with partners across art, tech and science.

Huge thanks to everyone at the University of Westminster who helped make it happen, and to the students for their openness and genuinely weird prototypes! 🎛️🧪🍄‍🟫🫶⚙️🦠🔮📡

Making Weird Work is part of the Emerging Technologies and Advanced Technological Literacies for Creative Disciplines project, led by Liz Allen and @tadejvindis, generously funded by the Quintin Hogg Trust.

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Many thanks to Clara Che Wei Peh for organising the 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 over the past over the past month, for bringing together members of London’s digital art scene for tailored close-door discussion and for inviting me to do a micro-presentation on 𝘚𝘐𝘋𝘌 𝘘𝘜𝘌𝘚𝘛 as part of the series closing event.

In five minutes or less, I shared a general overview of what 𝘚𝘐𝘋𝘌 𝘘𝘜𝘌𝘚𝘛 aims to do in the coming months and sampled an upcoming 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 article that will explore art institutions recreated through game engines and level designers. Briefly I touched upon five key pieces of this sub-genre:

- Orhan Kipcak and Reini Urban (1995) Ars Doom.
- Palle Torsson and Tobias Bernstrup (1996-1999) Museum Meltdown.
- Lawrence Lek (2015) Unreal Estate (The Royal Academy is Yours).
- Thomas Webb (2020) BETTER OFF ONLINE.
- Green Cube Gallery, Clusterduck, Riccardo Rudi and Superinterneto (2021) THE STRUGGLE IS REAL.

The full feature will include many more examples from this niche.

And it was great to see other presentations from Abigail Miller, Tanya and Oscar of Compiler Zone, Bea of Peckham Digital, Jenn Leung, Shaheer Tarar and Katya Bryskina Ibraz, amongst many others.

Best wishes to Clara for the upcoming Singapore season of the chatroom.

@claralikesart @palletorsson @tobiasbernstrup @lawrencelek @webb @greencubegallery @realclusterduck @riccardorudi @superinterneto @abigailkmiller @compilerzone @peckhamdigital @jennnital @shaheer.info @katyabryskina

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And with that, the Monday Chatroom’s first London chapter has come to a close 💗

We gathered on 16 February (on the eve of the Lunar New Year) to celebrate, inviting back participants from across all past sessions. In a small shift from our usual intimate format, I invited everyone to share about their own practices in optional five-min presentations. It was so inspiring to hear from everyone and all the incredible things you’re working on. I am still reeling in the conversations.

Thank you to @miminguyenmimi for giving the Monday Chatroom a home in Islington, @ninaad.kothawade for supporting another one of my endeavours with your design talents, and everyone who has spent an evening with us, sometimes commuting for over an hour to reach us. It’s been so special to see this network take shape over the past months. I’m certain there will be many more opportunities for us to gather, in London or elsewhere.

The next sessions of Monday Chatroom will be in Singapore and Hong Kong ☀️ some of you have also suggested online gatherings, and if there’s enough interest I’d be happy to start running them too.

Thank you, Monday Chatroom. You’ve made London all the better and cuter 🧚

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It’s been such a joy to initiate and run the Monday Chatroom, a series of closed-door discussions bringing together practitioners across art and technology 💗

In this past month, we continued with three more sessions of the Chatroom (including one that took place in my living room). We spoke about everything from conservation, large language models and classification, surviving as artists, to k-pop demon hunters. We explored strategies sustaining important initiatives such as @peckhamdigital (@bats1996), London Permacomputing Club (@dj_anicka), the practices of @compilerzone and @sidequest.osp - just to name a few.

And now the Monday Chatroom’s chapter in London comes to a close, after 11 sessions across 4 months, with over 60 participants. We shared lots of stories, references, snacks and hugs, and are gathering once again this evening with a big farewell party.

More soon 🌱

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✨ The Monday Chatroom ✨

Over the past few weeks, I’ve started The Monday Chatroom, a closed-door gathering of practitioners engaging with art and tech. Each session brings together a different set of participants, with artists, curators, researchers, and more.

These gatherings serve as points of discovery, forming new connections and fostering greater exchange and dialogue. So far, we’ve talked about AI slop, data moshing, Nordic LARP, programming for failure, and how technically proficient curators really need to be. And that’s just in the last three weeks.

I’m so grateful to Mimi @nguyenwahedart for giving The Monday Chatroom a home in Islington, @ninaad.kothawade for supporting yet another venture of mine with pro bono graphic design, and everyone who has joined us on a Monday evening to sit down with a group of like-minded strangers. All of you, and your generosity in time and spirit, give me fuel and hope for what we are looking towards.

If you’d like to join us for a future session, please reach out! This is a limited run but maybe there will be a second edition in a new city soon 🦋

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Time travels 🌪️🩶🩶

1 & 2 @roughtrade 2011 🔀 2025
3, 4 & 5 @tate @guerrillagirls
6 @morrisgallery
7 & 8 @barbicancentre with @compilerzone
9 @banksy @bonnerse17
10 @vam_east

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📢 📢 Announcing our summer art commission! We are delighted to announce that Compiler collective @compilerzone are working with us on a new commissioned work, Tracing Together.

Through this new artwork, Compiler will invite the local community to create digital patterns and motifs that speak to personal journeys, overlooked routes, places and things that matter to people in the local area - forming new memories and connections while tracing histories of traditional embroidery to digital design and image-making.

@compilerzone is a digital art collective led by Tanya Boyarkina @neyanoya and Oscar Cass-Darweish @o_s_c_d . The group’s creative practice explores social and political challenges in digital culture. They aim to create accessible works and events for audiences with different skills, knowledge and abilities to better understand emerging digital technologies.

Image description: Oscar (left) and Tanya (right) from Compiler are standing in front of a projected digital artwork made up of blue and red pixelated patterns. Oscar is wearing a white cap and a black t-shirt; Tanya is wearing glasses and a white shirt. They are softly lit by the projection behind them.

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👾 What is the value of public digital art and digital making with local people? 👾

It was such a special event last Thursday as part of the @e17arttrail! Thank you @morrisgallery team for hosting us! What a thoughtful, fantastic crowd - so important to (re)connect with so many digital creatives and practitioners.

Massive thank you to our panel @yinkadanmole, @tinapulejkova and @princessjazmin_art for speaking about the value of digital practice in connecting with local places and culture. What an array of inspiring projects was showcased! It felt powerful to reflect together with audiences on challenges, ways of supporting digital projects locally and making them more accessible:

〰️ Focusing on creative/learning processes and not the final outcome
〰️ Providing meaningful entry points to emerging technologies
〰️ DIY / DIWO (Doing It With Others) practices - and letting the participants and communities take the lead
〰️ Showing that it is not necessary to be an expert to critically engage with technology
〰️ Importance of nomadic and site-specific practice to create new narratives and modes of understanding
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And we only scratched the surface!

We hope this is the start of a Waltham Forest-wide digital practitioner network/forum! So please get in touch if you have ideas or would like to be involved. 👋

📸 @quantumecho_

This event was part of a programme of artist development opportunities that @artillery_arts is offering this year. Supported by @foundationforfuturelondon, @westfieldstratfordcity, @tnlcommunityfund.

#E17ArtTrail #arttrail #digitalmaking #talks #digitalculture #digitalart #communityart #compiler #compilerzone

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Finally posting some shots of Wild Wired! at @morrisgallery and in Langthorne Park. The exhibition is now closed but our game is still accessible online via wildwired.world !

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I designed some creatures for this game by @hervisions alongside the most talented group of artists:
@sundachun @tinapulejkova @msschwarz @eternal.enginee @ndelap

Curated and produced by: @zaibajabbar @neyanoya @ial_christine.

Commissioned by @lbwalthamforest @morrisgallery for Radical Landscapes on view until February 18th, 2024 in collaboration with @walthamstowtoylibrary @worth_walthamforest.

Installed at Langthorne Park and William Morris Gallery in London (UK) and also playable online at https://www.wildwired.world (just ask me for the passwords)!

"You are invited to visit Long Thorn Valley, a place that exists in a parallel universe at the exact location of Langthorne Park.

"Long Thorn Valley is a place that exists in the exact location of Langthorne Park. It is a well-known fact for multidimensional creatures, as Long Thorn resides in a parallel universe, only 5000 to the nth from Earth’s universe in the Mirrored Sequence.

Under the double glow of twin moons Na and Lu, on a planet that we will call Other Earth, there is a wild natural habitat called Long Thorn Valley, where creatures and nature thrive in symbiotic relationships. Creatures and plants are connected in the Valley, drawing a great circle where no animal or plant ends or begins. It is one of the last bastions of untouched nature, protected by the watchful eye of the Guardian. Creatures and plants are connected by long, transparent tentacles, stretching above the ground like huge highways for nourishment and information. Bound in hunger and in well-being, in draughts and times of fecundity, the sinuous tendrils breathe life into one big, magnificent organism cradled by the Valley. "

#digitalart #3dart #newmediaart #videoart

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The online exhibition of 🗺️🌳 Once was Walthamstow 🌳🗺️ is now live!

🔗Check the link in our bio to see the digital Coe map and all your models!

A big thank you to everyone who took part in our plasticine sculpting and 3D scanning workshops the other week at the William Morris Gallery @morrisgallery as part of the #RadicalLandscapes events and activities programme.

Together, we reimagined the landscape of rural Walthamstow from 200 years ago. Using their own experience of the urban landscape of today and inspiration from the Radical Landscapes exhibition, workshop participants made sculptures to add to Coe’s 1822 map and create a collaborative artwork. As part of the workshop, we 3D scanned the sculptures and built a digital Walthamstow using the foundations of the 200-year-old map.

Shout out to @sarahval and the lovely volunteers who helped make the activity such a success! 🥰

What is the Coe Map?

The Coe Map of 1822 (from the Waltham Forest Archive collection @vestryhousemuseum) was produced by John Coe and depicts Walthamstow as it was in 1822, before urban expansion took hold and the landscape was changed forever.

📸 @quantumecho_

#williammorrisgallery #map #walthamstow #digitalculture #3dscanning #compiler #compilerzone

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