A fascinating conversation with Deborah Tchoudjinoff and Oscar Salguero about geology, minerals, technology and fiction

Deborah is a multidisciplinary artist based in London who works across sculpture and digital media. She has worked with AR, VR, Unreal Engine, combined with sculpture made from wood or metal to present mixed media installations. Often beginning with a locality or research concept, she considers what the form is through the process of material and visual experimentations. Her practice engages with the temporal and spatial aspects of ecologies, in particular how technology, constructs, remembers, and forgets the stories of past and future ecologies. She is influenced by fiction, world-building, and otherworldly aesthetics.

Oscar is an independent curator, researcher, and archivist. His exhibition NEO MINERALIA presented a selection of new geological specimens crafted by ten international artists. The exhibition suggests recent rock formations no longer fit within the traditional groups: Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary. Instead, the era of human influence on the climate and environment has introduced two post-natural rocks: Synthetic and Digital. Salguero is also the founder of Interspecies Library - the first archive dedicated to the study and advancement of artists’ books exploring alternative interspecies futures.

Deborah is on Instagram at: deboraht_ff

Oscar is on Instagram at softcoreny

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Projects & people referenced:

The Toaster Project, Thomas Thwaites, 2011

Neo Mineralia, Oscar Salguero

Sae Honda, Everybody Needs a Rock

Works by Deborah Tchoudjinoff

Ceramic Material Atlas

Lehman Brothers

Earth Emotions by Glenn Albrecht

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