The Response Series generates collaborations between experts, researchers, and artists not only across disciplines but also across methodologies and approaches to research and practice, with a view to creating new experiences and forms of knowledge.

Jessica Foley is a poet and teacher whose multimodal practice draws upon visual and conceptual art, education, and telecommunications engineering research. Her work is informed by conceptual and installation art, as well as experimental practices in art, film-making and writing. Her writing emerges through imaginative call and response, with people and place, through processes of free writing, deep listening, slow looking, improvisation and play. Jessica’s previous work with Difference Engine (2009-2018) exemplifies this ethos of ‘jamming’, as does her work with the Orthogonal Methods Group (2015-2019).

Her creative and critical pedagogical work is informed by histories, folklore and epistemologies of education, technology and ecology, by her own everyday life, personal and working relationships and occupations. This slow temporal practice is challenging, but yields powerful experiences and insights, typically generating co-created archives of written, visual and oral history materials (e.g. Engineering Fictions).

Jessica teaches and researches embodied, experimental approaches to writing and inquiry through her module Curious Bodies, and Critical and Contextual Studies through the Faculty of Film, Art and Creative Technologies at IADT and with the Network Ecologies Working Group and the Counter Data Lab at CONNECT.

www.jessicafoleywriting.com