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Destabilizing assumptions and expanding imagination

The collaborative artist as avatar 0rphan Drift (0D) has explored the boundaries of machine and human vision since its inception in 1994. It was co-founded by Maggie Roberts, Ranu Mukherjee, Suzi Karakashian and Erle Stenberg in London. It has taken diverse forms through the course of its career, sometimes changing personnel and artistic strategies in accordance with the changing exigencies of the time. In recent years 0D has been considering Artificial Intelligence through the somatic tendencies of the octopus – as a distributed, many-minded consciousness.

Planet of Dreams

Cecelia Chapman is a San Francisco-born artist living in Portugal. Her work revolves around video, essay, storytelling, and works on paper and merges the documentary and experimental. ‘Planet of Dreams 2022’, follows a personal dream journey across continent and through time, observing how dream guides us. Planet of Dreams asks ‘in what ways can the dream state guide us?’

Observation Station

Heather Barnett discusses Observation Station, a series of interspecies interventions designed to examine how and why we look at animals, and which animals we choose to observe. The project is part of the Machine Wilderness residency programme in Amsterdam, centred on public fieldwork developing methodologies and prototypes of ‘wilderness machines’ that engage with local environmental complexity.

Planktonium

Planktonium is a photo series and short film about the unseen world of microscopic plankton. It is a voyage into a secret universe, inhabited by alien-like creatures. Jan van IJken filmed the plankton through his microscopes, revealing the beauty and delicate structures of the minute organisms in the finest detail. These stunningly beautiful organisms are unknown to most of us, because they are invisible to the naked eye. However, they are of vital importance for the ecosystem.

Mediating our relationship to the molecular world

Laura Splan is a transdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of science, technology, and culture. Her research-driven projects connect hidden artifacts of biotechnology to everyday lives through embodied interactions and sensory engagement. Her recent exhibitions featuring molecular animations and material artifacts of laboratory animals include her large-scale immersive installation in the Brooklyn Army Terminal at BioBAT Art Space, NYC.

People-Identities

Alexa Wright is London-based artist working across a range of media including photography, video, interactive installation and book works. She has worked at the intersection of art and medical science since the late-1990s and often works with people with mental and physical differences to make works that address questions of human identity and otherness through qualities like vulnerability and empathy. She has been involved in several long term inter-disciplinary collaborations, for example with Alf Linney, Professor of Medical Physics and computer scientists at UCL (1999-2010) and Hybrid Bodies, a unique international, interdisciplinary project based in Toronto, Canada that brought together medics, visual artists, a philosopher and social scientists to explore the emotional and psychological effects of heart transplantation (2007-19).

INTERFACING

INTERFACING was a project in 2021 bringing together scientists and patients to discuss the current role of data in pancreatic cancer research. The aim of the workshop was to spark new conversations and re-frame the context of qualitative research whilst creating a piece of new artwork that represented this. The workshop acted as a safe and open online space to discuss the use of personal data in a medical research setting, explaining it’s current role in training AI models to diagnose and predict pancreatic cancer at an earlier stage.

Anna Linnea Strøe: Aether and Under Aether

Anna Linnea Strøe is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Denmark and currently working in London. Her art practice explores interactive environments (including virtual environments) and ecological perception, and her primary research areas include embodied cognition, altered consciousness, and spatial perception.

The Pacemaker

Lidija Kononenko is a student from the Royal Academy of Arts in London, whose practice investigates methodologies of scientific research into the human condition. Her artwork ‘31-3594’ won the Art of Neuroscience 2020 in which she explores the nervous system in an interactive way. ‘The Pacemaker’ is an animation film exploring endurance training and emotional complexities in romantic relationships.