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00.	----> to now
social science research on media and technology	python, generating poetry, making cards and books, printing
illustration	web design, html, css, javascript and php
baking as a trade	baking as part of my artistic practice
"I hope this course will help me become a contextually aware artist able to challenge audiences by producing work that is both self-reflexive and that questions oppressive societal structures."	bootleg book making and glue-binding
	artistic license making
	prototyping as a bigger part of my artistic practice
	more confidence in my creative writing, gained methods for it
	station skills: i learnt so much about laser cutting, printing, ceramic making, tried wood and metal working and created a more playful approach to the materials I use.

01. contributions to the special issues (reading, writing & prototyping practice)

first website i made

my gardening rules

Special Issue 19: Garden Leeszal

scanning

encoding converter

Reading & Writing

gardening python rules
catalog, archival document of the event

Prototyping

Special Issue 20: Console

Reading & Writing

dunno
python games
modding oracles: oracolotto
paged.js for book
laser cutting boxes
license on rituals

Prototyping

Special Issue 21: TTY

Reading & Writing

- unicode encoding
- worm entanglement, coming up with rules
- learnt how to code from scratch, learnt python, html, css, javascript - web to print! - using open source, giving up when you really can't, different ways to be on the internet - glue binding - using a terminal - laser cutting cards - receipt printers

Prototyping

After school

summer = nyu summer school: interactive telecomunnications program (ITP)

finished work on entangled matter with friendship bracelet and algae knitting
collect call = reimagining a modern web call trhough our visit at the telecom museum. A js switchboard that opens up a two way webcam to call xpub from new york.

04. thesis (only a brief overview)

All intimacy is about bodies. Is this true? Does it matter? I doubt it. Do you know? Let’s find out, maybe.

In my thesis, I explored digital intimacies, questioning whether physical presence is truly necessary for intimacy. I also looked at how identities can fluidly exist across both human and digital realms. Instead of trying to resolve the tensions between virtual and real-life experiences, I used personal stories and shared experiences to show how online interactions can go beyond physical limitations and reshape who we are.

I focused on the idea of a digital body—a representation of ourselves similar to a dream version of our physical form. Through this concept, I discussed how digital bodies can offer relief for people in types of pain that is stigmatised, and how they can foster healing connections for diverse individuals. At the same time, I examined how prolonged use of digital intimacy can have negative effects.

0. DIGITAL BODIES

a. what is a digital body?

b. body vs. computer

c. bot-feelings

1.DIGITAL COMFORT

a. comfort care

b. uncomfortable comfort

c. unbearable intimacy

Stories that are hard to tell and hard to hear and even more, maybe, hard to understand. I have loved these stories and I have loved telling them to you. I hope you understand that my goal was for you to live these questions, to feel these stories in their confusion. My digital body, my bot-feelings, my divergent communities. I have given them to you, so they may live longer, like an obsolete but beloved cyborg shown in a museum. Look: I was here, Look: I was loved, Look: I was saved.

05. Backplaces: graduation project and research

research:

themes: intimacy, digital anonymity as a way to express pain, using a collective voice to tell personal stories, using a personal voice to tell collective stories, embodied and disembodied intimacy.

methods tried: writing letters to anonymous strangers' poetic forms. sharing stories, committing them to memory, using mediumship as a way to nurture intimacy, if you tell me about you i'll try to tell you more about you. a website as a format for a play, comments as publishing platforms for poetry.

For my project I continued research into intimacy and digital communities.

Is all intimacy about bodies? What is it about our bodies that makes intimacy?

form

love letters to strangers

"Backplaces" is my exploration into intimacy beyond the body. Through poems and stories, I question what our bodies contribute to intimacy and what happens when physicality is absent. This anthology pays tribute to those who, like me, share vulnerable emotions online.

I've created three distinct online spaces within "Backplaces": **Solar Sibling**, **Hermit Fantasy**, and **Cake Intimacies**. Each originates from unique projects merging personal and shared experiences.

**Solar Sibling** is an ongoing performance blending TikTok poetry comments with my reflections on departure and sibling bonds. It concludes with participants whispering their emotions as the sun rises.

**Hermit Fantasy** is a whimsical short story inspired by survey responses on seeking emotional support online. It explores the desire for solitude in a hyper-connected world through letters and digital interactions.

giving a internet reading

**Cake Intimacies**, developed over a year, gathers stories from shared cake-eating moments and digital predictions. Each story merges physical and digital narratives, celebrating human connection.

As "Backplaces" concludes, I invite the audience to a final act: consuming digital stories like sweets. It's a playful gesture blurring virtual and physical intimacy, reflecting on the transformative power of storytelling in our digital age.

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 Look: I was here, Look: I was loved, Look: I was saved.</blockquote>
-== 05. graduation project and research ==
+== 05. Backplaces: graduation project and research ==
-Hi.
+research:
+themes: intimacy, digital anonymity as a way to express pain, using a collective voice to tell personal stories, using a personal voice to tell collective stories, embodied and disembodied intimacy.
+methods tried: writing letters to anonymous strangers' poetic forms. sharing stories, committing them to memory, using mediumship as a way to nurture intimacy, if you tell me about you i'll try to tell you more about you. a website as a format for a play, comments as publishing platforms for poetry.
+For my project I continued research into intimacy and digital communities.
+Is all intimacy about bodies? What is it about our bodies that makes intimacy?
+[[File:Screenshot 2023-11-08 at 13.14.24.png|thumb|form]]
+[[File:Love letters.png|thumb|love letters to strangers]]
-I made this play for you. It is a question, for us to hold together.
+"Backplaces" is my exploration into intimacy beyond the body. Through poems and stories, I question what our bodies contribute to intimacy and what happens when physicality is absent. This anthology pays tribute to those who, like me, share vulnerable emotions online.
-Is all intimacy about bodies? What is it about our bodies that makes intimacy? What happens when our bodies distance intimacy from us? This small anthology of poems and short stories lives with these questions—about having a body without intimacy and intimacy without a body. This project is also a homage to everyone who has come before and alongside me, sharing their vulnerability and emotions on the Internet. I called the places where these things happen backplaces. They are small, tender online rooms where people experiencing societally uncomfortable pain can find relief, ease, and transcendence.
+I've created three distinct online spaces within "Backplaces": **Solar Sibling**, **Hermit Fantasy**, and **Cake Intimacies**. Each originates from unique projects merging personal and shared experiences.
-I made three backplaces for you to see, click, and feel: Solar Sibling, Hermit Fantasy, and Cake Intimacies. Each of these is the result of its own unique performance or project. Some of the stories I will share carry memories of pain—both physical and emotional. As you sit in the audience, know I am with you, holding your hand through each scene. If the performance feels overwhelming at any point, you have my full permission to step out, take a break, or leave. This is not choreographed, and I care deeply for you.
+<nowiki>**</nowiki>Solar Sibling** is an ongoing performance blending TikTok poetry comments with my reflections on departure and sibling bonds. It concludes with participants whispering their emotions as the sun rises.
-Solar Sibling is an online performance of shared loss about leaving and siblings. This project used comments people left on TikTok poetry. I extracted the emotions from these comments, mixed them with my own, and crafted them into poems. It is an ongoing performance, ending only when your feelings are secretly whispered to me. When you do, by typing into the comment box, your feelings are sent to me and the first act closes as the sun rises.
+<nowiki>**</nowiki>Hermit Fantasy** is a whimsical short story inspired by survey responses on seeking emotional support online. It explores the desire for solitude in a hyper-connected world through letters and digital interactions.
+[[File:Internet mediumship.jpg|thumb|giving a internet reading ]]
+<nowiki>**</nowiki>Cake Intimacies**, developed over a year, gathers stories from shared cake-eating moments and digital predictions. Each story merges physical and digital narratives, celebrating human connection.
-Hermit Fantasy is a short story about a bot who wants to be a hermit. Inspired by an email response from a survey I conducted about receiving emotional support on the Internet, this story explores the contradiction of being online while wanting to disconnect. As an act it’s a series of letters, click by click.
+As "Backplaces" concludes, I invite the audience to a final act: consuming digital stories like sweets. It's a playful gesture blurring virtual and physical intimacy, reflecting on the transformative power of storytelling in our digital age.
-Cake Intimacies is a performance that took a year to bring together. It is a small selection of stories people told me and I held to memory and rewrote here. The stories come from two performances I hosted. First, I asked participants to eat cake, sitting facing or away from each other and sharing their stories about cake and the Internet. The second performance was hosted at the Art Meets Radical Openness Festival, as part of the Turning of the Internet workshop. For this performance, I predicted participants’ future lives on the Internet using felted archetypes and received stories from their Internet past in return. Now the stories are here, each of them a cake with a filling that tells a story, merging the bodily with the digital and making a mess of it all.
-The play ends as all plays do. The curtains close, the website stays but the stories will never sound the same. For the final act, I give you the stories. It’s one last game, one last joke to ask my question again. Digital intimacies about the digital, our bodies and the cakes we eat. For the last act, I ask you to eat digital stories. To eat a comment, to eat a digital intimacy. Sharing an act of physical intimacy with yourself and with me, by eating sweets together. Sweets about digital intimacies that never had a body. There is no moral, no bow to wrap the story in. A great big mess of transcendence into the digital, of intimacy and of bodies. The way it always is. Thankfully.
 == 06. plans for final publication and grad show ==