Untitled (superorganism)
Untitled (superorganism) is a video installation commissioned in 2014 for ‘Anthropocene Monument’, an exhibition and symposium-performance curated by Bruno Latour, Bronislaw Szerszynski and Olivier Michelon at L’Abbatoirs Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Toulouse.
Unhomely Street: The Architecture of Cinematic and Psychological Space
This research explores the relationship of psychological and cinematic space. The principal output, Unhomely Street, a 20 minute essay film, uses a character in a state of fugue as a strategy to explore attitudes towards capitalism and contemporary society.
A share of a pensioner’s Christmas Bonus
We got presents that were donated…. I got a little cheap plastic watch and a coat that my auntie had made, but I just didn’t even care ’cos I was having so much fun
Gender and Design
This body of work investigates how design research informed by feminist theory and philosophy can facilitate future design ontologies conceived beyond normative patriarchal and capitalist value constructs.
Repository of Irrational Gestures (Rigs)
The Repository of Irrational Gestures proposes and tests the notion that moving image work and sonic composition can critically investigate and illuminate the turbulent but permeable boundaries that differentiate between ‘rational’ and ‘irrational’ actions, thinking and/or behaviours.
Writing the Design History of Computers
This research investigates what factors are particular to research in the area of the design history of recent technologies, and asks how those factors might be mitigated.
Trigger Point
This work developed and tested systems that can inform and add to the growing debates within the social, artistic and cultural sectors regarding the need to develop new cultural, social and political geographies for the city as proposed from Henri Lefebvre, to Kevin Lynch and Georgs Simmel.
Room with a VDU
The research for this journal article explores the design history of a relatively short-lived phenomenon— the glass-walled secure rooms in which mainframe computers were housed within corporate workplaces in the 1960s and 1970s.
How Deep is Your Love
Becky Shaw's research project explores Calgarian’s emotional attachment to their man-made and industrial water infrastructure
Weather Prediction by Numerical Process - a Forecast for Europe
Weather Prediction by Numerical Process - a Forecast for Europe is a performance and exhibition where the weather is forecast through human labour, thus turning the act of computation into a social, performative and collaborative action.