During the spring/summer of 2020, I thought a lot about sensation and virtuality. As a way of addressing these ideas, I worked on a practice/theory project that dealt with computational sensing, digital abstraction, and synthetic recomposition.
I was initially working toward a sort of interactive sound installation, to get other people to engage with their experience of being sensed, abstracted, and recomposed by computers.
However, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, you couldn’t really get together with people all that much, so I ended up working with animals quite a lot, mainly in Peckahm Rye Park.
These circumstances repositioned my project slightly, but also helped me think about media ecologies, art with animals, and more-than-human ensembles.
> Read the full Project Report
> Read the Essay
> Watch some videos of the project