brother_Sjur :: conceptual artist, creative director and failed cult-founder. Aspires to be a multispecies cyborg storyteller and an anti-correlationist. This is (and will always be) work in progress.

contact ++ social:

email: dunc4npaterson@gmail.com

instagram: @brother_sjur

about

Currently a PhD candidate at the Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts, London. Graduated in 2020 from the MA in Computational Arts at Goldsmiths University (Distinction). His current practice seeks to use creative technology to explode received notions of the nature of tech (materially and teleologically), and question anthropocentric modes of thinking; seeking new more-than-human aesthetics that can emerge through a multispecies “becoming-with”.

To this end, he creates algorithmically-driven cyborg assemblages, using software, physical computing and companion creatures to make installations that challenge received ideas of what makes a computer, and to explore alternative tech /bio futures. His work is profoundly influenced by the material-semiotic writings of Donna Haraway, and he seeks to combine the potential for the radical reconfiguring she describes in The Cyborg Manifesto (1985), with her call to ‘make kin’ with our fellow species in Staying with the Trouble (2016).

Recently, he’s been inspired, elevated and humbled by an ongoing collaboration with offworlder artist collective 0rphan Drift.

What does it feel like to be a non-human thing? Are computers magic? Can algorithms be spirits? He has lots of questions. Answers may or may not happen.

What would he wish for if he died and was allowed to live again? He would ask to be a crow. Or an octopus.