Proposals and Applications:
Interfaces Monthly:
Interfaces Monthly is a series of gatherings for people who are working at the junction of art and technology, organised by the Barbican and The Trampery. Each event includes artworks, presentations and discussions. I have submitted the following form that features my MA Unit 3 artwork for consideration to be included in this event. Since this opportunity has an open deadline, it is likely that I will make multiple applications, especially as my practice and research progresses.
Cybernetic Forests : ARRG! Zine call for participation
‘Models For Making Distance‘ is a printed zine containing manifestos, creative writing, and instructions for art that decodes and experiments with algorithmic systems. This zine is a part of ARRG! : (the Algorithmic Resistance Research Group), that seeks to create a low-cost paper publication encompassing authors, activists and artists, who must employ creative resistance when investigating AI.
I hope that through submitting my own application for this zine, I might continue to contribute to the artistic contexts that surround contemporary usage of AI, while also finding a sector that educates others about technology through art practice. I discovered Eryk Salvaggio’s manifesto work online: ‘Flowers Blooming Backward into Noise’, through my research into ARRG! and the artists who are involved. For more about Eryk Salvaggio’s manifesto, please see my ‘Additional Content’ page.
Watershed Winter Residency
This residency required a 10 word submission of an idea for an artistic project. After an initial selection process, the residency will seek artistic proposals and refine them in an application surgery process. The 10 words I submitted were:
‘AI image generation dataset biases in conversation with human narratives‘
My proposal plan includes an initial idea for AI generated images and descriptions portraying human beings to be compared with human narratives, artistic depictions of identity and photography of human models. I hope to investigate and expose AI dataset biases, informed by human biases. In doing so, I would additionally resist these biases through creative collaboration – finding new ways to depict images and descriptions of the diversity of human beings and physical bodies.
Ars Electronica : European Digital Deal Open Call
Ars Electronica is a cultural, educational and scientific, new media art institute. The European Digital Deal Open Call is offering 12 potential residencies across Europe to candidates interested in the intersection between technology and art. As soon as I saw the phrase ‘techno anxiety’ in the description, I knew I had to apply for this opportunity, since that subject is so closely woven through my artistic practice. I first heard about the opportunity on Art Rabbit, and reached it through the Ars Electronica site. The Ars Electronica institute is based in Linz, Austria.
SET Film Festival
As part of my applications, since the TADO film Festival Exhibition I was involved in, in Unit 2, I have sought to continue to apply my work to film festival contexts. While I consider my videos to be more suited to fine art than to film, I believe there is definitely a significant overlap that is growing broader with time in gallery and film festival settings. Video art is growing across large gallery settings, even featuring in this year’s Royal Academy Summer Show Exhibition, for instance. I applied for the SET Film Festival in Peckham, with my Unit 2 body of work.
Paid Opportunities and Networking:
Presentation for Prospective Students
Reaching out to Artist Eleanor Crook
Collaboration and Future Exhibitions:
I am pleased to note that MA Fine Art Graduate from the Computational Arts pathway, Titash Sen, has agreed to make a collaborative artwork with me after my submission deadline. We are hoping to examine the theme of surveillance in a way that is both informative and playful, using animation, voice and scripting.
My interactions with the speakers in the Tertulia salon events at Camberwell have also helped to put me in contact with other students with potential for future collaborative exhibitions including Maria B Brito from the MA Fine Art Photography pathway.