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For this week’s required blog post, I am uploading my first thinking around a number of quotes from Yuk Hui’s Recursivity and Contingency. The general thought I am exploring is around the idea of the city as a living thing, a superorgansim or a superorgan, something that does act in the interest of itself independent
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In_Organisms is an exploration of fictioning and embodied intelligence. Beginning as an idea to create a working sculptural algae bioreactor concept, the project evolved through the material constraints I put myself under, of recycling PET drinks bottles as the primary material of its production, into a pure speculative exercise. After modelling algorithmically an idea of
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The inspiratorial jumping off point for this project was the idea of creating an algae bioreactor using recycled PET bottles. DIY examples of such systems are relatively simple and have been made with a number of different designs. The purpose of this interest correlates with my interest in ecology and food production. Algae gain mass
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Some months ago I applied for and was accepted into the show: Visions in the Nunnery at Nunnery gallery, the location run by Bow Arts, with whom I have my studio. I spent the week before the install remaking the pyQT interface to be friendly to the gallery staff when turning the piece on and
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Before the old academic year ended, the new one started it seemed. I was fortunate enough to have my work chosen to be exhibited as part of the Digital Design Weekend at the V&A, in its event for the London Design Festival, I took an Internship at Jason Bruges Studio, and was also nominated for
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Steward is an investigation into the concept of stewardship, employing a procedurally generated terrain, slowly decaying over time.
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Since the interim show, I continued to construct the vertical garden. I began growing my plants in March. I’m not much of a gardener, but the idea of vertical gardening is to reduce the labour in the process as well as increase space efficiency. The propagator I had for my plants was meant to be
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I realise I never posted on here the work I made for our show at the end of last term, despite having posted most of the supporting material. So here it is. When displayed, the work had no sound, I was to be in a busy sound-filled space and the song I wanted I wasn’t
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Dan Rowan-Smith and I decided we wanted to do a show in the morgue at Chelsea College. As the majority of our work is digital, we don’t often get to exhibit work or have it hanging around in the studios like a painter or sculptor does, also it’s always good to get more show experience.
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More fractals to start off here. Trying some new equations out, trying to create some different effects, the luminosity works well here, as does the sense of depth, but there’s not much “new” going on here. Below, we see a mountain, exciting with all it’s vibrant colours and spikiness, like a psychedelic Matterhorn (Matterhorn included
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