Through making ‘imaging phantoms’ as a means of interacting with the MRI process, and using a Dobby-loom to deconstruct the mathematical processes behind MRI, the overlaps between the action of physical phenomena on matter, and the sensory, cultural properties of matter are explored.
My thesis develops a new means of engaging with science, focusing on the methodologies of material agency, queer feminist theory and critical posthumanism, resulting in a collection of artefacts that are artistically significant opportunities to use practice-based research to conceptualise scientific processes, institutions, hierarchies and how they exist in the world. The use of public exhibitions and participatory workshops enables further access to this body of work, expanding the means through which scientific knowledge is embodied and exists with Actor-Networks.
My PhD is based at the University of Portsmouth, UK.
Thanks to The Francis Crick Institute, MRI department and CABI, UCL for collaborating with me.
