Two Interviews
I have not updated this space in a while, so I thought it would be a good moment to catch you up on two interviews I’ve taken part in.
The first is a conversation with artist duo Midgray (Kris Blackmore and Simon Boas), which was published a while back on the Carnation Contemporary website. Carnation is an artist-run space in Portland that hosted Midgray’s exhibition a useless task it seems between December 2022 and January 2023. I had interviewed Simon and Kris about their works on surveillance, dating apps, and toxic masculinity before, so they invited me to moderate a conversation about a new series of pieces realised in collaboration with Pat Boas. The Carnation show presented different takes on information sharing practices and the cyclical, intergenerational nature of feminist resistance in post-Roe USA. It was a pleasure to talk through these new ideas with Simon and Kris, situating new and old work in a wider political and historical context. You can read the full conversation here.
The second interview is a conversation between Özgün Eylül İşcen and me, published on Counter-N — a web-based publishing, exchange, and research collection curated by Shintaro Miyazaki and her, and affiliated with ICI Berlin. Eylül asked me a few questions about my research and I answered (at length!), exploring influences, intellectual connections, and frontiers for future research. We talk about my conceptual exploration of tagging, the importance of social media aesthetics, and the need for a type of platform critique that encompasses both the circulation and representation of digital identities. Beyond my usual themes, however, she also invited me to propose new conceptual approaches to computing — my pick was “relational” — as well as futuring — I went with “mediated/communicative”. It was my first time being interviewed and it was a great opportunity to connect some dots, so I am very thankful to Eylül and Counter-N for the invitation. You can download the full conversation here as a .pdf.
