2020 March: Character as Thought-Filter

As of this month I am joining a new research group at think tank and project space Exposed Arts. Our research topic is 'Intelligence Debiased', and I've been asked to think of a research question + key words to start mapping out our overlapping interests. So I've been thinking about how best to use this …

2020 February: The Psychology of Characters

Introduction to Personal Metrics, performance/experiment held at MARs, Goldsmiths College. 21 Jan 2020: Hello, welcome everyone, to this Art Research Installation, Personal Metrics, in which I’m hoping to conduct an experiment with your help. Some of you may know by now that my practice is concerned with using my own personhood as a kind of …

2020 January: Personal Metrics and Elephant West

Ridiculous! At Elephant West, 9 Jan - 2 Feb 2020 I did manage to develop Atom into a longer piece, from 3 to 7 minutes. What helped was to create as intimate a space as possible in which to try telling the story again and again to myself. Instead of changing anything about the physical …

2019 December: Performance Anxiety

Okay, so I have quite a few different things going on at once… I need to address the weakest link in my understanding, which is the machine learning/AI side of the project, or at least the analogies I draw with the field. I’ve composed an email ready to send once the lecturer’s strike is over, …

2019 November: Artist as Medium and Person

01/11/19 One challenge right now is to answer that blunt question: So what? So there is this hypothesis developing where I want to present the writing/reading phenomenon as a model from which all ‘life-like’ behaviour stems. So what? I want to talk about the role of the author as a medium accommodating other subjectivities in …

2019 October: Defining the Field and Forging Connections in the Literature

Professor John Frow of Sydney University is somebody I may wish to establish contact with, as his book, Character and Person (2014), is very related to my project. We have even come across some of the same examples (Kundera) as instances of character/person crossover. He may even be appropriate as a supervisor, although I should …

2019 September: PhD Begins

The Hospital of Happiness. Sound work with autogenerated image of non-existent person. 2019. Listen here. 07/09/19 Exploring Evolutionary Algorithms In Chapter 3 of The Blind Watchmaker, when Richard Dawkins refutes the idea that, with enough time, a monkey typing randomly on a typewriter could come up with the complete works of Shakespeare, or rather, even …

2019 August: First Solo Exhibition

It’s been a good month for me so far, opening my first solo show on 9th Aug at Tension Fine Art Gallery in Penge, London. Despite opening a show during one of the quietest months of the art calendar, it was pretty well attended, and I found myself busy throughout. The aim of the show …

2019 June: Imposter Syndrome

Week 1 Applied for Graduate Trainee Tutor positions. Stared at my novel for an entire day without doing much to it. Got frustrated but at least I tried. Decided to keep the exhibition at Tension super simple, again, and just focus on showcasing as many videos as aesthetically suitable. No new name, just The One-Woman …

2019 May: Acknowledgement and Rejection

Tom Cardew and I are awarded the Golden Aesop Grand Prix in Contemporary Art at the Gabrovo Biennial of Humor and Satire, Gabrovo. 2019. Ah, I feel giddy. Today I wanted to throw myself back into work, after coming home from Wales, and anticipating going to Bulgaria next week. But I feel too hyperactive, as …