Machine Imaginings 2022
Using generative A.I models to speculate on machine emotions. A series of textile hangings created with machine learning diffusion models.
Exhibited at ISEA 2023 Paris France, Dark Mofo 2023 Nipaluna Australia, Assembly Point 2022 Narrm Australia. Supported by an Australia Council grant and City of Melbourne Creative Spaces.
Impossible Evolutions 2020-23
An ongoing project using generative machine learning to speculate on the futures we are losing as biodiversity fades. A series of woven tapestry hangings made using GANs and observational drawings of vulnerable Australian flora and pollinators.
Exhibited at Wild Hope 2023, Assembly Point 2022. Supported by an Australia Council grant and City of Melbourne Creative Spaces.
Myccorhizal Materialities 2021
Printed and machine embroidered textiles generated using GANs. Machine learning models trained on hand drawings of Australian fungi and transposed in embroidery designs.
Exhibited at Melbourne Design Week 2022, Assembly Point 2022, Radiant Pavillion 2021. Supported by an Australia Council grant.
Reality is an interface 2022
A collection of 25 machine embroidered hangings and a large woven tapestry. Textiles generated using machine learning diffusion models and inspired by Zhuangzi's Butterfly Dream.
Exhibited at Haus of Vovo Lutruwita Australia 2023.
Stardust 2022
An installation of hanging velvet textile panels with a guided meditation. The images and meditation are generated usng machine learning models and offer reflections on finding your place in the vastness of the universe.
Exhibited at Haus of Vovo Lutruwita Australia 2023.
Machine Affirmations 2023
An embroidered QR code linking to a series of affirmations for speculative synthetic sentiences. Generative machine learning models used to produce 40 affirmations and a guided meditation for anxious code.
Exhibited at Dark Mofo 2023 Nipaluna Australia.
~⭐~ 2022
A 4 min animation loop produced using machine learning diffusion models, exploring the nature of the universe from the infintessimal to the infinite. Originally projection mapped onto the Bendigo Bank Facade.
Commissioned for White Night Bendigo 2022 Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung Country Australia and exhibited at ISEA 2023 Paris, France.
Excited Physical Colour 2022
A series of 5 neon lights based on diagrams of the physical structure of butterfly scales. Exploring the the different ways that colour can be experienced by humans, showing that certain phenomena can emerge from different processes.
Exhibited at Assembly Point 2022 Narrm Australia. Supported by an Australia Council grant and City of Melbourne Creative Spaces.
deFrag🌸popUp 2021
An augmented reality installation featuring guided meditations to maximise your productivity post-covid.
Commissioned for UQ Art Museum Conflict in My Outlook: Don't Be Evil 2021 Meanjin Australia.
🌈🙂🕸️🪤🕳️🔮⛓️🙃🌈 2021
A 36m X 11m vinyl facade wrap with augmented reality markers popping guided meditations. Monumentalising the detritus of the internet.
Commissioned for UQ Art Museum Conflict in My Outlook: Don't Be Evil 2021 Meanjin Australia.
rlx:tech digitalSpa 2020
A bespoke website featuring a range of hand-coded rituals to help you manage your networked life. Designed during covid to amplify your desktop atmos.
Commissioned for UQ Art Museum Conflict in My Outlook: Don't Be Evil 2020 Meanjin Australia.
pleated parallax 2020
An exhibition of pleated, knitted and embroidered textiles embedded variously with augmented reality markers, asemic languages, binary poetry and near-future messages from speculative sentient algorithms.
Exhibited at Dock Library Gallery and part of Melbourne Design Week 2020 Narrm Australia. Supported by City of Melbourne Arts grant.
whateva 4eva 2023
A series of embroidered textiles mashing together cartoon content found online.
Exhibited at Haus of Vovo Lutruwita Australia 2023.
fkn fine art 2023
A series of very valuable fine art embroidered textiles. Each work has been authenticated as an original human artwork to reassure collectors of their immense and enduring value.
Exhibited at Haus of Vovo Lutruwita Australia 2023.
girls' chat samplers 2019
A series of embroidered girls' chat samplers. Some of them have QR codes that pop augmented reality face filters.
Exhibited as part of the Fashion Capsules "Here Comes the Fun" at Melbourne Fashion Week 2019 Narrm Australia.
fashtray 2023
A series of drink coasters and embroidered stubby holders made using generative machine learning diffusion models. Exploring how ML models cannot understand Australian vernacular.
Shown at Melbourne Fashion Festival 2023 Narrm Australia.
Enfolded Emblems 2019
A series of textiles and laser cut acrylic objects for storing and accessing memories. Activated with an augmented reality app to pop contemplative content and open space for grief and reflection.
Exhibited at Radiant Pavillion 2021 and Melbourne Design Week 2022 Narrm Australia.
Crypto Mori 2021-22
An installation exploring ways of encoding information about cryptogams of the Victorian Central Highlands. Created with Emma Luke and Judith Glover. A set of ceramic urns, CNC milled terrain, video loop, augmented reality projection and textiles.
Exhibited at Melbourne Design Week 2022 Narrm Australia.
K69 in the city 2020
Large format vinyl prints wrapped on disused shop fronts on Swanston St in the Melbourne CBD. QR codes pop an obtuse website taking you on a strange journey through cyberspace.
Commissioned by
City of Melbourne Picture Windows program 2020 Narrm Australia.
Fading 2022
A series of textile hangings featuring machine imaginings of vulnerable Australian plants.
Exhibited at Assembly Point 2022 Narrm Australia. Supported by an Australia Council grant and City of Melbourne Creative Spaces.
Toadbusting 2020
A series of embroidered toad skins and embroidered guaze panels created for the Toadbusting exhibition.
Exhibited at the Toadbusting show as part of Melbourne Design Week 2020 Narrm Australia.
ARTool demo 2019
A demo design created with art therapist Katie Collins. A series of interactive acrylic tiles that act as augmented reality markers to enable art therapy in a childrens' hospital setting.
Soma Shimmer AR somaesthetics 2019
A demo design to encourage stretching for carers in the Royal Childrens' Hospital. An augmented reality app is used to activate a vinyl decal on the walls of the resus rooms in the emergency department of the hospital. Carers are guided in a somaesthetic appreciation to stretch the body as they travel the vinyl design with the app.