fidget camp 2025
where artists, engineers, and creative technologists gather for 9 days to teach, learn, and put on a show.
I was selected to lead a workshop on Knotting and Tapestry. We covered four classic knots and how they can be composed into 2d works of art that suit each artist’s style.
Then we had three days to conceptualize and activate the Pebblebed gallery space with tech infused art and design
you can rest here - Sitoë Thiam
pojagi patchwork cushions sewn from secondhand fabrics, and lined with glowing el-wire
these cushions were placed in an area accessible but apart from the main gallery space. they surrounded the slide flute drone instrument built by another artist. together we we able to create a space of recovery for artists and exhibition viewers. in a show filled to the brim with excitement surrounding the new, we relied on old and analog technologies to ground and allow reflection for anyone who came to sit
Ctrl Alt Del - Nnenne Ogbonnaya, Sitoë Thiam
3D printed and painted keyboard sculpture and ai death poem generator
with each stroke of this keyboard, a bot must confront the reality of its potential destruction through generated poetry
my contribution was in 3D designing, modeling and printing the larger than life, fully articulating CTRL ALT DEL keyboard
florilegium - various artists
foraged, dried, and fresh cut florals and foliage, foraged wood, stone and soil, algae-based bio resin, string, NFC tags, laser cut acrylic, sound and image projection
flora encased in bioresin and individually NFC tagged is suspended in cyborg trees. tapping each petal with your phone brings you to a collection of poems, quotes, and musings on our natural world
my contribution was in creating bio-resin petals, designing our layout, and suspending our cyborg trees with the art of macrame