Becoming Chimeric

Becoming Chimeric

This talk will present and overview of my artistic practice, focusing on artworks that explore glitch-self-bodies in digital and extended realities. These works deliberately use-and-misuse 3D scanning practices and generative algorithms, creating glitched self-portraitures and interactive environments that reflect on identity and presence, exposing the vulnerability of the hybrid body, the fragmentation of the self, and the poetics of the in-between. The talk will then situate these artworks within my current PhD research “Becoming Chimeric, Chimeric Becoming: Glitching Toward Radical Hybrid Identities and Unruly Kinship”.

The research centers a participatory workshop series in which participants and myself co‑create glitched and chimeric self‑figurations. The workshop practice is tightly connected to my own recent artistic practice in which I reconfigure myself in glitched and chimeric self-bodies.

The aim of the research is to look if and how practices of glitching and chimering the self function as glitch/feminist, posthuman tools for exploring and embodying radical, hybrid identities and cultivate kinship with more-and-other-than-human partners.