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I am a mother, digital caretaker, and faerie circuit researcher whose commitment to holistic computing arts advances expanded forms of literacy around digital customs, codesign and somatic investigation at scale.
I am founder of Autoluminescence Institute, an autonomous school for holistic computing arts, citizen science fiction, and somatic exploration that fosters art, design, and innovation at scale.
I enjoy navigating unix based operating systems through handy work that lovingly crafts strings of code to not only access but also touch my deepest, darkest files.
Through artistic research, I devise performance installations that appreciate visceral networks of data fauna and flora fiction. I seeks to raise awareness of cultural practices that increasingly rely on “Big Tech” infrastructure, compelling the public to consume their products to participate in digital colonisation. This dependence comes with oblique ecological, corporeal and transcendental costs.
I am an early contributor to holistic computing cultures which is now known as 'permacomputing' a movement embraces the interconnection of various elements the turbid and tendrilled realms of signals, waves, fibres, minerals, dirt, slime, shells and kelp, she emphasise how computational poetics and context-dependent processes with materialities can effectively intervene.
We need to understand just how visceral the Internet is and what has to be done to disrupt normative exchanges with hardware and engage corporeally. To think kinetically and materially is to evoke and sense beyond the fingers that type the commands into the operating system and feel the ‘sixty different minerals’ that make up the computer chips extracted from unceded lands.
Attending to the touch of the metal allows us to connect with the properties of these elements that make the hard, smooth, shiny surfaces, to be both mesmerised by its talisman-like qualities and be troubled by the ethics of participating in extractive violence. This can foster intuitive solidarity networks with minerals, lifeforms, humans, and non-humans.