/ˌɛm.brɪ.oʊˈlɒdʒɪk/

2024 Graduate Exhibition,           Victorian College of the Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours)          

The installation comprised twelve screens, each displaying technogenic infusions of machine-led imagery. These filmic works were embedded parasitically within exhbition buildings infrastructure, inhabiting the exposed hardware like an invasive presence.        

Composed of still and moving images captured through terrestrial scanners, they were reconstituted through generative sequences bred referencing the same data. The machinic eye led the mechanic mind, and vice versa, creating a recursive interplay between technologies and ecologies.

ˌɛm – “em,” with a slight emphasis.
brɪ – “bri,” as in “bring.”
oʊ – “oh,” a long “o” sound.
ˈlɒdʒ – “loj,” with a short “o” like in “lot,” and emphasis on this syllable.
ɪk – “ik,” as in “pick.”

/ˌɛm.brɪ.oʊˈlɒdʒɪk/ occupied overlooked spaces, intertwining historical and modern infrastrucural overlays, creating a symbiotic relationship between the works and the building’s solar-powered systems. The installation mirrored the wiring, tubing, and frameworks, drawing energy from the host like a parasite.

The screens, embedded within rafters, ducts, and stairwells, acted as portals to external vitality and virtuality.