Synthetic archives and parafiction
How can institutional tone, documentary form, and material evidence make invented histories temporarily believable?
My research connects surveillance, propaganda, machine vision, generative media, and human-machine co-authorship. It develops through physical installations, traditional studio practice, moving image, software, sound, and browser-based works rather than through one medium or one project alone.
How can institutional tone, documentary form, and material evidence make invented histories temporarily believable?
What changes when images are produced for systems that detect, classify, target, and act?
How do technologies presented as safety, convenience, or communication normalize surveillance and behavioural control?
How do authorship, embodiment, responsibility, and creative agency change when human intention meets probabilistic systems?
Research takes form through objects, installations, writing, software prototypes, moving image, sound, and sustained collaboration.
The theoretical field includes parafiction, simulation, propaganda studies, psychological warfare, machine vision, media archaeology, automatism, and posthuman accounts of collaborative agency.
Video and Media Design (AI-generated video), The Kiss by Roland Schimmelpfennig, performed by Maev Beaty and Eve Egoyan, directed by Brendan Healy, BMO Lab, University of Toronto
Research Intern with David Rokeby, BMO Lab for Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and AI, University of Toronto; funded by the Keith and Win Shantz International Research Scholarship