Research Repository

Ephemer(e)ality Capture: Glitch Practices in Photogrammetry details artistic practice using cloud-based photogrammetry that actively invokes glitches through disturbance of the imaging algorithm by utilising optical phenomena. Reflective, transparent, specular and patterned/repetitive objects were used to confuse the imaging algorithm to produce spikes, holes and glitches in the mesh and textures of the 3D objects produced. The research tests the limits of photogrammetry in an effort toward new image-making methods. It builds upon the research of Hito Steyerl’s Ripping Reality: Blind spots and wrecked data in 3D in which she outlines the errors of 3D scanning media in her work and contextualises amongst thought surrounding the objectivity of photographic media.

The journal article focuses on the invention of a new generative participatory design process that uses Tasseography. It is a ritualistic, participatory, performance process that implements a new set of generative tools that promotes a shared language between myself and my participants resulting in a collection of co-designed abstract textile artworks.

This article considers Philip. K. Dick’s story in light of current forms of image-making apparatus, specifically in relation to photogrammetry. Dick’s protagonist, Doc. Labyrinth’s design and ambitions of The Preserving Machine to safeguard cultural heritage in the light of ecological catastrophe resonates with the application of 3D imaging technologies in cultural heritage industries.

A practice led case study documenting the production of Clean-Up Workers (Deluxe Series) mixed media sculpture. Auto ethnographic narratives are explored through the lens of waste, value and abjection.

A reflective case study of practice-led research, this paper illustrates a realignment in creative methodology from a craft-based kiln-formed glass practitioner, to a mixed media sculptor exploring personal narratives.

This paper sets out to explore thinking-through making as a complex dynamic of learnt skills and intuitive thought and to examine how these may be taught in what will be termed in this context 'learning and doing'. The paper proposes that, whilst there are established strategies relating to the acquisition of craft skills and to creativity, it is less clear how intuition, as the act of knowing or sensing in the moment, can be taught in the context of art and design education. The paper will take the practice of drawing as its exemplar in this exploration of intuition, examining how it might be described and imparted in an education context and its value in creative, entrepreneurial and sustainable practice.