ANDY WEIR

Great to be invited to present my research at this event which i will be joining this afternoon. It's a meeting of the working party on IDKM (information, Data and Knowledge Management) of the NEA Radioactive Waste Committee. NAGRA is the National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste in Switzerland. In other words, this means it's a cross-disciplinary group concerned with questions of how to 'communicate' environmental knowledge around nuclear waste isolation sit

I've been mainly busy lately teaching and writing my book, although I have had some time to present some research in progress. I presented 'Missed Calls to Deep Futures' at the Lines of Flight symposium with the UAL EARTH research group last week. Here I went back to my Pazugoo work as intervention into understanding sites and toxicity in a nuclear context. This focused on challenging the paradigm of art as 'communication' to an imagined future. It was also cool to learn more

I've been doing some peer-reviewing for a special edition of the Screenworks Journal following the Digital Ecologies symposium in July, so looking forward to seeing this coming out soon. image from Material: Art & Technology Research Group 'The Special Issue examines the complex material relationship between technology, society, food and energy production and the land. It is informed by Yuk Hui’s notion that the essence of contemporary technology is to ‘consider everything as

Locksbrook Late, Bath: A curated programme of artist films from recent events by the Material : Art and Technology research group. The works explore our relationships with non-human intelligences biological and machine and how these might be re-imagined through creative, critical and sustainable practices. Featuring films by Miranda Whall, Jennet Thomas, Warren & Moseley, and Andy Weir. vid stills Polymerized Flow Snag 2, 10’35” The film consists of a dialogue between mete

Curated by Amanprit Sandhu and Andy Weir Daniel Shanken on Art as AI Gareth Bell-Jones (Flat Time House) on Art as Work Joel Simpson & Amanprit Sandhu on Art as Law Ain Bailey ​on Art as Science Radha D’Souza & Jonas Staal’s Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes is described as an art installation, while it also stages public hearings to ‘function as’ a court. This claim for art to ‘function as’ something else (in this case, law) is interestingly at odds with traditions

Ive been testing out some ways of building my research on speculative unearthing into art practice teaching and Ive been developing this research project with students - exploring Chislehurst Caves, making proposals for burial and leading to an exhibition as a series of object burial rituals. This led to some cool stuff this year including a Labubu funeral, work drifting along the river or snagged in bushes, layered future mulch drawings, and a student-curated project returni

It's been nice to have some time to catch up with writing and video editing before getting back into term planning. Working on getting...

image - from research for Glyptodont / Logical Fund Systems This was great - this event at Bath Spa Uni on 24-25 July, I discussed some...

FRI 13 JUNE, Green Room, Chelsea College of Arts We invite artists and writers to present their work as it could relate to ‘the...

still from Polymerized Flow Snag 2 , work in progress I'm working on a new book bringing together a lot of my recent research, planned to...

I'll be talking at this symposium in Sep 2024, organised by Thomas Keating and Anna Storm. It looks like a great day. I will draw on...

I'm editing a new art research journal , issue 1.1 (slow drift geo fiction) will be launching Autumn 2024, so watch out for updates.

I've been making some new work , drawing on research into fatbergs under the financial district of London, playing with AI, offshore...

With Doug Fishbone, Rachel Garfield, Pil & Galia Kollektiv, Martin Newth, Andy Weir & Bea Vorster Some more info here.

This was a great event, lots of cool videos, performances, presentations and discussions, which I look forward to continuing. Some more...

Deadline extended to Fri 26 May 2023 CALL FOR PROPOSALS The Material: Art & Technology Research Group presents Fiction Machines IV ...

Tender Dialogues Publication from collaborative writing project Tender Dialogues: Suspending Artistic Research Writing as Meaning-Making ...

This is out 'Dust Against the Anthropocene', Journal of Visual Culture, Dec 2022, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1470412922...

Just back from this conference in Weimar. Had a good panel with Brigid McLeer discussing memorials and memorialising in her Collateral...

Excited to be working on this, see some more here