Ayeshah Zolghadr

Mutable Drawing Dialogues: collaborative exchange between humans and machines

My practice-led research project examines how humans (as artists, curators and audiences) might work with autonomous machines to develop a collaborative drawing practice.

Gathering around mutual grounds for connection in these artistic partnerships, is key to understanding the terms of collaboration within this research. Here, I explore boundary objects — representations, abstractions, or metaphors — that have the power to speak to different communities of practice. In the context of drawing as a site of interdisciplinarity, I am interested the potential for boundary objects to function as intervention in the generation of new forms of human-machine creative production.

Mediated through a combination of artistic and curatorial practices, my research aims to cultivate and critique new non-hierarchical frameworks to understand creative exchange between humans and machines. In conjunction, I seek a wider reconciliation of the implications of agency and authorship to articulate these human-machine partnerships and foster new ways of thinking about the production and dissemination of their shared creative outputs.

Sitting within the 'Drawing for Humans and Machines' research cluster shared by the Schools of Art and Computing, this studentship is supported through a CHASE Collaborative Doctoral Award in partnership with Drawing Room public gallery.

Student website

www.ayeshahz.com

Supervisors

• Professor Michael Newman
• Professor Frederic Fol Leymarie
• Kate Macfarlane (Co-Director, Drawing Room)