WAS - We Are Supernova: Studying and Exhibiting the Dawn of the Universe in the Silicon Chip

At a time of climate collapse, the artistic research project We Are Supernova (WAS) will offer a new analysis of the forces of perpetual

growth that drive it. Hosted by Goldsmiths College, a research leader in art, climate justice, and technology, the project will address a current paradox: our resource-intensive technological desires and the ecological emergency.

The objectives will be achieved through a practice-led art research postdoctoral fellowship building on my doctoral art research.

I will employ the element silicia as a way to investigate the idea of accelerating forces which drive perpetual growth, given silica's

capacity to let the project address both micro technological level (the silicon chip) as well as macro cosmic scales (the exploding star/

Supernova). And, I will develop new perspectives on accelerating forces by studying both the expansion of the universe, with the aid of Cosmology, and "emergence" in AI assisted by Computer Science.

Many artists explore technology's environmental impact, but rarely tackle the paradox of the technological embeddedness or impact

of digital artwork itself. WAS will develop and use an "intermaterial" method that focuses on the concealed material narrative of

various research components-including the digital tools I use for making art. Through these layered intermaterial densities, more complex and ambiguous narratives will produce artworks which address the paradox.

From interdisciplinary research combining Computer Science, Cosmology and print making with my existing expertise in digital video

and animation, the culmination will be a complex and materially inventive video installation encompassing AI and documentation

from site visits and archives. Outputs will provide a new synthesis through artworks which offer new perspectives on the ecological

toll of AI and technological infrastructure, challenging the prevailing paradigm of the unbridled growth leading us to immanent climate collapse.