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Investigations

Work made through enquiry into how technical systems encounter, alter, and misremember the human archive.

Host’s Blind Spot: Parasite Logic.

Drawing on Michel Serres’ concept of the parasite, this exhibition explores AI as a disruptive presence that feeds on, alters, and leaves traces within the human archive, not as a threat but as a participant in exchange. Video, generative process, and material residue sit together as a single field of partial encounters, where meaning drifts and structure appears only in passing.

See the gallery here or go directly to the dedicated digital exhibition.

Deep Time / Shallow Vision.

An ongoing project exploring how AI reconstructs landscape and geology from sparse photographic fragments, cliffs, quarry faces, weathering, tracking where the systems preserve geological specificity, where scale collapses, and where reconstruction reveals more about the machine’s assumptions than about the rock itself.

See the dedicated research site here

Earlier Experiments

Digital Parasite

An early exploration of AI as a consuming, unstable presence, feeding on human material and returning it altered. Combines manipulated photographs and short video, and marks the first working through of the parasite idea later developed fully in Host’s Blind Spot..


Echoes of the Forgotten

A study of family archives and how memory is reworked or lost as it passes through technological mediation. Personal photographs are layered into ambiguous images, asking what persists, what disappears, and what gets rewritten in the process.


Digital Flesh

An exploration of where the physical body ends and digital process begins, using photographic manipulation and AI transformation to question embodiment and distortion



Paradise Lost (Doré Reimaginations)

Gustave Doré’s engravings for Paradise Lost, reworked through contemporary photographic and digital technique. Using a historical visual language to think about belief, rebellion, and the tension between classical image making and algorithmic image culture


Golem: Forms of the Golem

Draws on the Jewish folk tale of the Golem, a protector formed from clay and animated by the Hebrew word for truth, as a way of thinking about AI: the ambition to create something with agency, and the uneasy question of who remains in control of what they have made.

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