Data · dataset · 2026
Synthetic feelings: disembodied voices in a virtual world
Listed in ZivaHub and Deakin Research Online and DMU Figshare — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.17034/32641359.v1
This thesis retroactively looks at my conceptual moving image artworks, using speculative strategies to examine them.
Description
It asks: What happens when we use speculative methods to propose “what if” or “let’s say” scenarios? What if we treat the video works made during the PhD as critical and poetic sites of inquiry?
This project began with my voice - Irish, neurodivergent, queer, non-binary, shaped by recovery and working-class experience. The collective consciousness becomes a voice within the moving image works, to explore positionality, the disembodied self, and living with digital technology. The portfolio includes three video works and five speculative fiction texts, produced between 2020-23, reflecting on our enmeshed1 relationship with digital technology.
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Influenced by artists and thinkers such as Pauline Oliveros, Johanna Hedva, and Byung-Chul Han, the research engages speculative fiction as both method and form. This project became a site of institutional resistance, using autofiction and moving image works to ask: can we frame human-machine relations as porous, poetic, and political? What if resistance lies in divergence, voice, and speculative play?
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Where it is published
- DOI doi.org/10.17034/32641359.v1 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from zivahub uct ac za
Catalogue records · 1
- OAI-PMH record api.figshare.com/v2/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai%3Af… ↗
metadata API · from zivahub uct ac za
Topics
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science · Earth & Environmental Science · Earth & Environmental Science · Humanities · Humanities · Humanities
- Inferred from text
- Art history, theory and criticism 72% · Image 75% · Video 75%
Provenance · 3 source records, 13 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZivaHub | oai:figshare.com:article/32641359 | 5 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Deakin Research Online | oai:figshare.com:article/32641359 | 5 d ago | JSON v1 |
| DMU Figshare | oai:figshare.com:article/32641359 | 5 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3601 | enrichment · zivahub uct ac za | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (72%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · dro deakin edu au | connector:dro_deakin_edu_au@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | connector:figshare_dmu_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | connector:figshare_dmu_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · dro deakin edu au | connector:dro_deakin_edu_au@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:image | enrichment · zivahub uct ac za | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:video | enrichment · zivahub uct ac za | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| description | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/description |
| license_text | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/title |