Diane Edwards confronts the interpolating realities of digital optimization and ecological collapse building virtual worlds, moving-image and installation to draw focus on our synthesising landscape, a world conjured from computation, the uneasy disjuncture between life and artificiality and the psychoactive affect and impact of existing within such a deep and turbulent tangle. Recent projects have investigated catastrophe and complex systems; the alien nature of human cognition; environmental mutation and digital world building; speculative notions of life after mass extinction and the socio-technological issues of AI, technology dependence and labour.
CONTACT
drkedwards@googlemail.com
@diane._.edwards
UPCOMING80mm - Collaborative digital residency w/ Rắn Cạp Đuôi and Tran Uy Duc tackling sea-level rise and sinking cities through spatial audio and virtual worldbuilding. Hosted by Gossamer Fog, funded by the British Council’s International Collaboration Grants.
RECENT
_2023
Before The Coming Aico Acolo, Satalit Matka, Bucharest Scraper Most Dismal Swamp, KW Digital: Poetics of Encryption, Berlin FutureFantastic Festival Supported by Future Everything(UK), BeFantastic(India), Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore, India.
Future Fantastic FutureEverything, BeFantastic, HOME, Manchester
Manchester to Bangalore: Art and technology at a time of climate crisis Panel discussion HOME, Manchester
_2022
Troubling Time s.l.i.c.e Berlin
Chimeras: Inventory of synthetic cognition Featured in Publication edited by Anna Engelhardt and Ilan Manouach, Published by Onassis Foundation
Sonic Bites Sonica, Cryptic Glasgow, Tramway, Glasgow
_2021
Flow Museum Ratingen,Ratingen, Germany
Big Screen Southend Focal Point Gallery, Southend , UK
Tenderness in Extractive Worlds Out of Doors, Transmediale, HKW, Berlin
Limitrophy Foreign Objekt, online exhibition
Sonic Bites Cryptic Glasgow, online screening
Takeover & Online Screening FuturShock, London
_2020
Quarantine 10 Piksel Festival, Bergen, Norway
Colab Fellowship BeFantastic, Bangalore, India
Date Me Digital Quartier am Hafen, Cologne, Germany
[ SPACE ] LCN Creative Development Programme, London
_2019
BAD ROMANCE Group show, +DEDE, Gussglashalle, Berlin
[UN]DEAD LABOUR Solo show, w/ Shipment & Many Hands, London
DIGITAL GODS Die Digitale Dusseldorf
SECOND NATURE Glasgow International
TRANSMUTED WORLDS Glasgow International
Diane Edwards also co-runs artist run organisation and gallery Gossamer Fog
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