Felicity Hammond
Variations

Artist talk
Tue, 31 March 2026 at 7:30 PM
Kino Šiška, Ljubljana

Part of the symposiumtactics&practice #17: Becoming Image
Curated by Marco De Mutiis

The focus of this talk will be Variations – an artistic research project by Felicity Hammond that interrogates the meeting places of geological mining and data mining. Over the past two years, Hammond has explored the extractive systems that bind these processes together, inserting herself into the machine that drives contemporary image production. Staged across four chapters and ending in a funeral service for artificial intelligence, Variations
maps how digital material makes its way from mineral to pixel, from the subsurface to the screen.

This talk will share the details of each chapter, from the fictional organisation set up to manually classify physical materials as data, to the enactment of model collapse. Hammond will also contextualise these findings with her new commission for Aksioma Project Space, Latent Space, where the proposed afterlife of artificial intelligence lives on in outer-space.

THE AUTHOR

Felicity Hammond (Birmingham UK, 1988) works with installation and world building to explore digital materialities. Her recent practice-based research seeks to understand extraction as a process that binds the geological with the digital realm, creating evolving generative installation works that expose this relationship. Re-staging is a key method in Hammond’s work, where the re-production of digital events draws attention to their flaws. Hammond was the recipient of the Ampersand Photoworks fellowship (2023) and has exhibited her work at The Photographers’ Gallery, C/O Berlin, Fotomuseum Winterthur, VOX Centre de l’image Contemporaine Montreal and Transmediale/HKW, among others. 

[+] RELATED ACTIVITIES

EXHIBITION

Felicity Hammond
Latent Space
1 April–30 April 2026
Aksioma | Project Space, Ljubljana

WORKSHOP

Felicity Hammond
Model Collapse
Wed, 1 April 2026 at 4 PM
The Academy of Fine Arts and Design, UL, Video, Animation and New Media, Tobačna 5, Ljubljana