So in 2020, at the jaws of covid, I passed my PhD viva with a pretty ridiculous subject of research which is broadly concerned with asking if the messy ungraspable thing called art is better understood through role playing games, horror films, and queer and feminist literature analysis. You can read the abstract here here. and if oyu really want to read it, HMU and ill send you the whole thing.
At present (February 2021) I'm doing the edits on a paper about Cixous' theories of writing-as-death as a way of approaching the videogame Pathalogic. its going to be published by Revenant.
As part of my 2021 fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude I'm making an HTMl artwork called The Endless Hallucinatory Love of the Riders at The Long Point of Death
I recently did this interview with the wonderful Lesley Taker of FACT about a lot of related stuff, as I was making the game Animal Agency as part of the FACT Together digital fellowship in tandem with writing the above paper.
Every time I write a proposal for something like commission or a conference or job or whatever I upload it here whether it is successful or not, I figure transparency is important
I actually started this back in 2016 when I started my PhD with this blog that archives all the conference papers, PhD milestone submissions, (including the 10k words I had to write because the external examiner hated my first year annual progression submission so much, this finishes roughly at the end of the PhD in December 2019.
