Experience

Artangel

• United Kingdom
• Artists and Writers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Fellowship

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  Making Time is an Artangel initiative that responds to the climate emergency, bringing the ideas of artists and art production into conversation with new material possibilities. Artangel have partnered with Science Gallery London, CCA Brighton and Radar at the University of Loughborough to facilitate a year of material experimentation for artists wanting to explore sustainable new material production. I will be working on a collaboratively authored and intersectional 'roadmap' towards a just and circular world for art workers in the UK and beyond. Through interviews, workshops and presentations, I will be thinking about materiality of art production, epistemic injustice, portals and healing. The result willl be a public declaration and direction for future liveability. Show less



Anglia Ruskin University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Curator

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  Energy Communities of Nepantla is the first event of the Sunlight Liberation Network, a radical social and emotional support group for art and climate justice workers. The workshops are a collaboration with the Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University. Artists have redefined meanings of place, they often live in the inbetween-ness of many realms using their “mixedness” to be in communion with present, past and diverse spaces and narratives. “Nepantla” is the term Gloria E. Anzaldúa gives to those who live in and exist within and beyond an in-between space, over and above the barrier and borders that have been placed on them. Through a series of transdisciplinary workshops, we are interested in understanding what disturbs and mediates our relations to community energy. How might community energy exceed place? What forms of repair are needed to embrace the potential of regenerative energy? We are thinking about “energies” in the broadest sense, from renewables and economies to deeper knowledge and internal healing. Our aim is to mobilise the fabric of relations between artists and researchers, pulling the spaces between them together, to imagine what is needed to make real-world impact in energy regimes and transitions and strengthen community bonds. Coming together is a way for us to understand where we are, what we have yet to build, and how we might support each other to act in ways that are reparative and healing for all. Show less



Sunlight Doesn't Need a Pipeline

• www.sunlightdoesntneedapipeline.com

• Founder

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline (https://sunlightdoesntneedapipeline.com/) is a collaborative literacy and climate justice project in search of transformative and regenerative repair. A coalition of art workers, agitators, dream weavers, growers and caregivers have co-created a holistic and ever-growing decarbonisation plan for the art sector and beyond. Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline (https://sunlightdoesntneedapipeline.com/) is a collaborative literacy and climate justice project in search of transformative and regenerative repair. A coalition of art workers, agitators, dream weavers, growers and caregivers have co-created a holistic and ever-growing decarbonisation plan for the art sector and beyond.



National College of Art & Design

• Ireland
• Design Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Tutor

  • Feb 2021 - Present

  MA Design, Design Research Methods, NCAD, Dublin. Feb-June 2021. MA Design, Design Research Methods, NCAD, Dublin. Feb-June 2021.



Stanley Picker Gallery

• United Kingdom
• Fine Art
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Stanley Picker Research Fellowship w. Kingston University

  • Jun 2020 - Mar 2023

  Cycles of Toxicity Stanley Picker Fellowship I Exhibition & Research Project I 2020-2 I Stanley Picker Gallery & Kingston University, London As part of the Stanley Picker Fellowship I will be exploring histories of contamination and ideas of purity, memory and intersectional thought through micropollutants caused by the abundant use of chemicals in our daily lives. My Fellowship project 'Cycles of Toxicity' is a collaborative fabulation that brings together various communities to retrace the lives of chemical pollutants as they travel through bodies and ecosystems. Show less



Abandon Normal Devices

• United Kingdom
• Artists and Writers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Curator

  • Feb 2021 - Sep 2022

  Toxicity's Reach Curator | Biennale Exhibition | 2021 | Abandon Normal Devices From microplastics to fertilizers, pharmaceuticals to personal care products, contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) are lively and leaky pollutants that contaminate waterways, eroding environmental and public health. Although invisible to the naked eye, micro-polluting chemicals are everywhere. They are found in the bodies of humans and animals and take long periods of time to move through seas and soils before breaking down into less harmful forms. However, it is not only the physical impacts of water pollutants that harm our bodies and environments, chemical molecules also shape our bodies and worlds in social and ideological ways. Many of us are born onto toxic lands built on unjust legacies or pursue belief systems—from ideas about purity to immunology—that continue social inequalities and put in place new polluting futures. In multiple ways, we are entangled with the very environments we seek to live with, from and in. ​ Through three newly commissioned online artworks by artists, Mary Maggic, Dr Luiza Prado, and Sissel Marie Tonn, and an accompanying body of research, Toxicity’s Reach traces how contaminants of emerging concern exert agency over our lives in unexpected and lesser-known ways. The online exhibition asks how exposure to chemical water pollutants affects us biologically, socially and ideologically? How might reimagining molecular water-pollution through a focus on the agency of chemicals make us think differently about our daily actions and give us hope to flourish in toxic worlds. Show less



transmediale - art & digital culture

• Germany
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Curator

  • Feb 2021 - Jan 2022



HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg

• Gothenburg Metropolitan Area

• Visiting Lecturer

  • Apr 2021 - Apr 2021

  Atmospheric Attunements, two day workshop with MA design students thinking through Policy for Designed Living Environment. Atmospheric Attunements, two day workshop with MA design students thinking through Policy for Designed Living Environment.



University of Sunderland

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD Student Researcher

  • Oct 2018 - Feb 2021

  I am an AHRC Block Grant-funded PhD studentship 2014–17 at the faculty for New Media Art at Sunderland University. My research is exploring emerging types of curatorial practice, focusing on the phenomena of world-building and critical infrastructures in New Media Art and Critical Design. Supervisor: Prof. Beryl Graham Second Supervisor: Dr. Alexandra Moschovi Advisor: Dr. Sarah Cook. I am an AHRC Block Grant-funded PhD studentship 2014–17 at the faculty for New Media Art at Sunderland University. My research is exploring emerging types of curatorial practice, focusing on the phenomena of world-building and critical infrastructures in New Media Art and Critical Design. Supervisor: Prof. Beryl Graham Second Supervisor: Dr. Alexandra Moschovi Advisor: Dr. Sarah Cook.



National College of Art & Design

• Ireland
• Design Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Tutor

  • Sep 2020 - Dec 2020

  MA Design, Design Rationale, NCAD, Dublin. Sep-Dec 2020. MA Design, Design Rationale, NCAD, Dublin. Sep-Dec 2020.



Porto Design Biennale

• Portugal
• Restaurants

• Curator

  • Sep 2019 - Sep 2020

  The Ethics Committee of Dark Conservation Curator I Workshop & Exhibition I 2019 I Porto Design Biennale A multi-layered and collaborative week-long workshop co-curated with Gillian Russell that culminated in a group exhibition of fictional museum conservation reports. As part of Fiction as Practice curated by Mariana Pestana, the project involved designers and curators undertaking the guise of a fictional Collection Committee. The group worked to acquire a single artefact and then represent it to the public through conservation reports that embody different value systems expressed as a pluriverse of fictional worlds. The term pluriverse has been taken from Mario Blaser and Marisol de la Cadena and can be defined as the existence of many co-existing worlds, against the practice of one world that dominates over all others. The project used the imaginary and fiction as a vehicle to collectively author new stories to provoke into being an environment where there are many truths of equal standing. In this way, the work actively sought to be in opposition to the singular truths that dominate society and that often go unseen and unchallenged. Show less



MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology

• Lisbon, Portugal

• Curator

  • Jun 2020 - Jul 2020

  Disturbing Conservation: Remapping The Avencas MPA Curator I Exhibition & Workshop I 2020 I MAAT, Lisbon An alternative Interpretation Centre for the Avencas Marine Protected Area (MPA). The work is designed to question critically and creatively what role cultural institutions might play in ecological conservation initiatives? And how the public can reconsider their responsibility and relationship to Marine Protected Areas? In its first iteration, the Interpretation Centre presents three new displays that work to complicate ideas of marine conservation. It re-imagines interpretation as an infrastructure and mediating system for visualising the lesser cared for concerns attached to marine conservation areas.Each display borrows from feminism, anti-colonial thinking, and more-than-human positions to bring forth other stories and realities, by taking care of what and who is being represented in the Centre. Show less



National College of Art & Design

• Ireland
• Design Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Tutor

  • Jan 2020 - Jun 2020

  MA Design, Author and Audience, NCAD, Dublin. Jan-June 2020. MA Design, Author and Audience, NCAD, Dublin. Jan-June 2020.



Playbour - Work, Pleasure, Survival

• Furtherfield

• Curator

  • Feb 2018 - Sep 2018

  | Curator | Workshop, Publication, Exhibition | Furtherfield, London, UK | Playbour - Work, Pleasure, Survival, is dedicated to the study of the worker as they are asked to draw on internal resources and self-made networks to develop new avenues of work, pleasure and survival. A platform for community-led art and research, it is organised in London with its partner and host, Furtherfield. Through a programme of a lab, independent publication, exhibition, and a series of on and offline events, Playbour - Work, Pleasure, Survival, is supporting public forms of research and developing collective situations for thinking about how we value the convergence of work, play and well-being, and the contours of work and play itself as they are being redefined through data and neurotechnologies. Its projects bring together artists, designers, scholars, activists and people from local communities, through new experiments in artistic co-research and production. Show less



Walk&Talk Festival

• Sao Miguel, Azores

• Curator

  • Mar 2018 - Jul 2018

  Assembling a Moving Island Curator | Public Art Circuit | 2018 | Azores Islands Assembling a Moving Island featured 6 temporary public art commissions across the island of Sao Miguel in the Azores. As a starting point, each work mapped what passed in and out of the island of Sao Miguel, retracing material and immaterial frictions, from historic flora being transported from the Global South to natural information such as seismic activity. Works by Nora Al-Badri & Jan Nikolai Nelles, Camposaz, Navine Khan Dossos, Luiza Prado, Sascha Pohflepp & Chris Woebken, Daniel Rourke, Shift Register (Jamie Allen + Martin Howse). Show less



ABANDON NORMAL DEVICES

• Movies, Videos, and Sound
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Researcher and Producer

  • Feb 2018 - May 2018

  I Researcher and Producer I Biennale I Abandon Normal Devices I In this role worked with the team in preparation for AND Festival 2019, which promises to be the most ambitious and adventurous of editions. Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is a catalyst for new approaches to art making and digital invention. They commission groundbreaking projects that challenge the definitions of art and moving image. In their work, they bring together an eclectic mix of academics, filmmakers, scientists and anarchists to actively push the boundaries of audience experience and art production. With a distinct emphasis on creative enquiry and provocations, they create a space where artists can reflect on and play with the impact of new technologies. To achieve this, they invite artists to hijack their imagination and work with them to develop projects which abandon traditional settings and partnerships. Show less



Abandon Normal Devices

• United Kingdom
• Artists and Writers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Programmer and Storyteller

  • Jun 2017 - Oct 2017

  I Programmer and Storyteller I Biennale I Abandon Normal Devices I Festival of new cinema, digital culture and art. Castleton, Peak District National Park (UK) AND Festival 2017 Abandon Normal Devices’ roving biennial of new cinema, digital culture and art, took place in the heart of the Peak District between the 21-24 September 2017. Across four days, the festival saw a host of site-specific installations, world premieres and performances take-over the village of Castleton. From satellites to neutrino observatories, fossilisation to free-fall, the programme revealed the earth’s layers, from the drone’s eye view to the sunshine-deprived depths of subterranean bunkers, exploring themes of verticality and deep time in a series of prophetic, provocative and uncanny reflections on the earth. Joining their team for the ambitious 2017 roving biennial, based in the heart of the Peak District, I led on storytelling of the festival and curated "Digital Dark Ages", an exhibition exploring the possibilities and challenges we face when preserving our digital lives for future generations. Digital Dark Ages featured: Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles, Charlotte Jarvis, Sam Lavigne, Martha McGuinn, Simone Niquille, Shift Register (Jamie Allen and Martin Howse), Thomas Thwaites. Show less



SPACE Art + Technology, London, United Kingdom.

• London, England, United Kingdom

• Workshop Facilitator

  • Nov 2016 - Nov 2016

  “Creative Campaigns: Marketing in the Age of Capitalism” SPACE [ART+TECH] and AntiUniversity, London, UK, (23 November 2016). “Creative Campaigns: Marketing in the Age of Capitalism” SPACE [ART+TECH] and AntiUniversity, London, UK, (23 November 2016).



Somerset House

• Somerset House, London

• Big Bang Data

  • Mar 2015 - Oct 2015

  | Curatorial Advisor | Exhibition | Somerset House, London, UK | Curated by Jose Luis Vicente + Olga Subiros Located at London’s Somerset House the 'Big Bang Data' exhibition explored our complex relationship with data and how it is changing the world we live in. The last five years have seen the emergence of a generalised awareness among academic and scientific sectors, government agencies, businesses and culture that generating, processing and above all interpreting data is radically transforming our society. Show less



Kingston University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Tutor

  • Sep 2014 - Dec 2014

  MA Curating Contemporary Design, Kingston University in partnership with the Design Museum. MA Curating Contemporary Design, Kingston University in partnership with the Design Museum.



Barbican Centre

• United Kingdom
• Performing Arts
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Assistant Curator, Digital Revolution

  • Oct 2013 - Sep 2014

  | Assistant Curator | Exhibition (touring) | Barbican Centre, London, UK | Curated by Conrad Bodman. Digital Revolution is a comprehensive presentation of digital creativity ever to be staged in the UK. This immersive and interactive exhibition brings together for the first time a range of artists, filmmakers, architects, designers, musicians and game developers, all pushing the boundaries of their fields using digital media. It also looks at the dynamic developments in the areas of creative coding and DIY culture and the exciting creative possibilities offered by augmented reality, artificial intelligence, wearable technologies and 3-D printing. The exhibition was one of the most visited exhibitions in the Barbican’s history with over 93,000 visitors over 10 weeks. Reviews include The Times, BBC London News, BBC Radio 4 Front Row review, The Independent, the Evening Standard, New Statesman, BBC Click. Show less



Kingston University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Tutor

  • Sep 2013 - Dec 2013

  MA Curating Contemporary Design, Kingston University in partnership with the Design Museum. MA Curating Contemporary Design, Kingston University in partnership with the Design Museum.



Lisbon Architecture Triennale

• Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Lisbon

• Co-curator, The Institute Effect, Close-Closer Lisbon Architecture Triennale

  • Dec 2012 - Dec 2013

  | Co-curator | The Institute Effect | Close, Closer, 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Lisbon | Intended as a constantly changing stream of activity, The Institute Effect invited 12 pioneering institutions engaged in innovative and groundbreaking practice to takeover the exhibition space, hosting a public programme of their choosing taking consecutive turns in bringing an ever-changing international residency programme to Lisbon. Set in a fictitious establishment, Institutare, designed by the first institute, Fabrica, the exhibition space featured everything each institute needs to host their event from a workshop area, archive, blog and library to tools and stationary with five institutional rules that each institution has been asked to follow. Over the course of three months visitors could participate in activities as diverse as exploring new forms of pedagogy in an action workshop; visit a reimagined 1:1 construction of a Mexican architecture gallery; or experience Lisbon through a series of citywide interventions. The third edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale examined new forms and manifestations of contemporary spatial practice. The Triennale provided a platform for emerging practitioners and protagonists whose work and interests are far from a traditional client-architect model. The exhibitions, conferences, talks and fringe events should introduce to the public, and also to architects, the immense and often unchartered cultural, political and aesthetic output known as ‘spatial practice’. Chief Curator: Beatrice Galilee Curators: Mariana Pestana, Liam Young, José Esparza Chong Cuy Show less



Tent Exhibitions

• Tent/Superbrands

• Mobilised as part of Supertalks

  • Mar 2013 - Sep 2013

  | Curator | Talks + Workshops |TENT, London, UK | Mobilised was four days of topical debates discussing industry, ethics, futures and economies, presented by industry leaders, curatorial collectives, researchers and designers. We find ourselves in a constantly fluctuating, interactive and connected world, dominated by never-ending waves of innovation and founded on global distribution and exchange. This period of hyper-change has afforded us the opportunity to experience things in an unprecedentedly diverse number of ways, changing how we choose to consume, connect to objects, interact with others, and engage with technology. In the midst of this mass mobilisation there is a new type of person evolving: the agent. They push the boundaries of the materials we manufacture, create strategies for our well-being, anticipate the shape of the future, and take action against how we safeguard content, near and far. Speakers included: Austin Holdsworth I Becky Booth I Matthew Slater I Cecilia Wee I Héloïse Parke I Sebastian Bergne I Alex Chinneck I Pia Wüstenberg I Rachel Gannon I Manuela Macchi I Yann Mathias I Colin O’Dowd I Stephen Barber I Will Bloor I Jack Gwilym Roberts I Cher Potter I Ilona Gaynor I Katie Treggiden I Danielle Reid I Ben Reason I Sam Barbic I Alasdair Dixon I Joanna Choukeir I Sherif Maktabi I Hugh Knowles & Oliver Hurrey I R-Urban Wick I Marc Péridis I Nina Tolstrup I Ian Hunter & Rutger De Regt I Ben Alun-Jones I Jonathan Rowley I Roel Wouters I Matthew Plummer- Fernandez I Dr. Sarah Teasley Show less



Vassar College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Tutor

  • Sep 2012 - Sep 2013

  Independent projects: Media Fragments in London, VASSAR University and Goldsmiths College University, London.

• Visiting Tutor

  • Sep 2012 - Dec 2012

• Tutor

  • Sep 2012 - Dec 2012

  Independent projects: Media Fragments in London, VASSAR University and Goldsmiths College University, London.



Taschentrend GmbH

• London, United Kingdom

• Freelance writer and editorial assistant

  • Nov 2012 - Mar 2013



Kingston University & Design Museum

• London, United Kingdom

• Visiting Tutor

  • Sep 2012 - Dec 2012



Kingston University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Tutor

  • Sep 2012 - Dec 2012

  MA Curating Contemporary Design, Kingston University in partnership with the Design Museum. MA Curating Contemporary Design, Kingston University in partnership with the Design Museum.



Electric Futures - Ampera Technology Week curated by Beatrice Galilee

• London, United Kingdom

• Assistant Curator

  • Jul 2012 - Aug 2012

  | Assistant Curator | Talks, Performances, + Workshops |KX Filling Station, London, UK | Curated by Beatrice Galilee. The Filling Station is a temporary pavilion on the banks of the Regent's Canal near King’s Cross which will be programmed with events and talks all summer. Electric Futures is a week of workshops looking at the relationship between design and emerging technology. The events include a performance by Choi Ka Fai and a DNA Hacking workshop by Tuur van Balen. | Assistant Curator | Talks, Performances, + Workshops |KX Filling Station, London, UK | Curated by Beatrice Galilee. The Filling Station is a temporary pavilion on the banks of the Regent's Canal near King’s Cross which will be programmed with events and talks all summer. Electric Futures is a week of workshops looking at the relationship between design and emerging technology. The events include a performance by Choi Ka Fai and a DNA Hacking workshop by Tuur van Balen.