Critical Hits Zine Fair

As part of Weird Hope Engines, the Critical Hits zine fair brings together independent publishers, artists, and writers exploring themes of critical worlding, resistance, and alter...

Forward: Closed Circuit Systems

Written for Krystle Patel Closed Circuit Systems - residency with the Institute of Neurology at UCL, Plun-Favreau lab.

In the context of scientific lab research, the princip...

never far from hospitals

Written for Krystle Patel Closed Circuit Systems - residency with the Institute of Neurology at UCL, Plun-Favreau lab.

Someone once told me that it's mostly do...

Dancing in the Uncanny Valley

Commissioned text published in Vol.07 of L'Essenziale Studio - 2024
In response to Nina Davies Precursing at Matt's Gallery, London, Oct 2023

They stood a...

Ant Hill Mob

The ants had lived beneath the meadow for generations, tunnelling their intricate kingdom far below the surface. To an outsider, the hill that broke the green expanse of grass was ...

CULTUS exhibition text

CULTUS is the second instalment of the Silicon Traces trilogy, [1] a series of moving image installations that contends with the beliefs, fantasies, and histories influential to Si...

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Written for "Return of the poor image" exhibition for The Curated.app Curator’s Choice

In her essay on the “poor image”[1], Hito Steyerl argues that a class syst...

Screengrabbing as Documentation: the Role of the Screenshot in Archiving Net Art

It is difficult to future-proof, properly record, and accurately document a web-based project. The benefits of other forms of documentation (traditional photography, camera recordi...

Keiken: on declaration, holograms, and P2P architecture as instruments for the metaverse

Written for Among The Machines exhibition catalogue, Zabludowicz Collection, 2022

Episode 1
A trio of jagged rocks line the circular stage set with a sparkling ...

On Ent- (via Bosch and Barad)

Written for "Ent" by Libby Heaney at Schering Stiftung, Berlin, commissioned by LAS 2022

Inhabiting Ent
The scene opens with a luscious emerald landscape, bursting...

Interview: Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

Hey Danielle! Firstly, let’s unpack the central game in the exhibition SHE KEEPS ME DAMN ALIVE. Can you take us through the three levels, the aims of the players and the overa...

NOTES ON THE FPS HOW SINGULAR NARRATIVE CAN ENFORCE A COLLECTIVE SURVIVAL MODE

Written for Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, She Keeps Me Damn Alive, exhibition, London

On 9th December 1993 at 11:59pm, hundreds of people awaited the release of a free t...

Leave me alone

Written for Ben Grosser, Software For Less, exhibition, London

Software For Less mimics the aesthetics of a corporate tech trade show with architectural motifs often imp...

World Wide Weird

This text accompanies the exhibition The Digital Weird co-curated by Rebecca Edwards and Jan Robert Leegte, online, 2021

The Digital Weird parodies the format of an onlin...

Occlusion Leak

Written text for a collaborative project by Chris MacInnes & Eleni Zervou.
Commissioned by +DEDE

"The games we play, whether as children or as adults, at on...

from pop up ads to behavioural capitalism

Written as part of the "Real-Time Contraints" exhibition, 2021

Pop-up advertisements first appeared in the late 90’s on the free web-hosting site Tripod.com, a web-ho...

How The Internet Works

Written for Best Effort Network, Olia Lialina solo exhibition, London, 2020


There are three major parts of the internet, three rings if you like.

People...

Maybe it's about this...

notes on Hotel Generation, March - August 2017

It's early 2017 and financial anxiety, increasing rent prices, Job Insecurity and general desperation is rife. You're a cu...