K Woods
‘It’s Happening’: Countering digital fatalism and narratives of inevitability through interactive art, digital art and installation.
Fine Art Postgraduate Researcher
Supervisor- Dr Tom Schofield
K Woods is a multi-pseudonymous artist and essayist at the University of Newcastle in Fine Art/Digital Media, with a focus on Digital Fatalism and how algorithmic technologies can limit our agency and ability to shape our futures. Her work has featured at the Wrong Biennale, Peckham Creative Computing festival, Sonic Bites with Cryptic, videoclub’s Vital Capacities digital residency programme, Model Village curated by Hotdesque in London, Strangelove Time-Based Media Festival, Radiophrenia, Kelvingrove Museum, and the 10th international conference on digital and interactive arts Artech, the European Parliament in Luxembourg, Coastival, among others.
Digital fatalism is mediated through predictive technologies (that predict crime, educational achievement, future behaviour), and automated decision-making AI (that deny access to housing, credit, employment). This creative practice PhD investigates how artistic practice can expose and critique ideologies of digital fatalism and its narratives of inevitability.
Presentations:
Woods, KJ. 2024. AI Copilots. In 10th conference of the Gender Studies Association Austria (ÖGGF), Humans-Machines-Environments. Graz, 2024.
