Philip Craig
Artist / Researcher
Creative Statement: I engage with those meanings that arise from the meeting of technological, material and embodied systems. Critically I examine their role through an artistic practice of research and creative making, informed by new materialist and relational philosophies. Technology is an active collaborator in the generation expressed through visual, poetic and object-based fragments.
MA Arts Fine Art (Distinction) Derby University in 2023. I was awarded QUAD/FORMAT Fellowship and Reading Club Award for the graduate show.
Currently a PhD Candidate at Derby University researching AI Collaboration and Ethics through artistic research.
Machines Dream Too. - Open Space for AI, Artists, Poets, Tinkerers and anyone interested in artistic connections through and with technology, based in Derbyshire but coalescing with the rest of the planet.
Previous Exhibitions/Shows/Fellowships
2024 Art in the age of ai, Group Show, The Gallery, Mayfair, London, 14th - 20th October
2024 Did I Imagine This, Solo exhibition, Banks Mill 8th – 26th July
2024 Group Show, Salon Contemporary Art, Derby Museum of Making, 14th - 16th June
2024 QUAD/FORMAT Fellowship 15th - 28th April
2024 Exhibit, Robot Day, Coventry Collage 16th March
2023 Sculptural, Group Show, Fox Yard Gallery Suffolk 22nd December - 5th January
2023 MA Graduate Show at
Artcore Gallery Derby
14th - 30th September
@revealed_23
2022 VIABLE, Group exhibition,
Stryx Gallery
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@weareviable
Instagram - @philip.c.craig
Selected Work:
Solo Exhibition, Banks Mill, Derby
Did I Imagine This (2024), Printed images, digital space and wooden sculptural interfaces. An installation based investigation into how artificial intelligence (AI) can act as an extension or prosthetic memory, through reinterpretation and mythical narrative. The physical work and lens based images were developed in tandem with an online space where the fiction of another future was played out with collaborative AI interpretations of the Birthday Party. The Birthday party in all my work is completely fictitious and acts as a placeholder for a real birthday party that I wish i’d had, and yet, I have imagined as existing and believe that my brain has emotionally accepted as reality through this artwork.
MA Graduate Exhibition, Artcore Gallery, Derby
Manna, Mother, Other. (2023)
Final show of work examining technology as an Other. (Image - AI imagined birthday cake photograph with Collaboration). (Image - Collaborative Animation with Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) As a Shamanic ritual journey - animation stills) The work was an installation of altars that told the exploratory journey of the artists relationship with the Other through technological interaction and material. The pieces included altars or spiritual interfaces as spaces of interaction examining cultural practice: Credence Table (Wish Making), Kitchen Table (Birthday Cake), The Altar of the painting as a Video installation and lastly an Altar of technology.
Machines Dream Too. - Open Space for AI, Artists, Poets, Tinkerers and anyone interested in artistic connections through and with technology, based in Derbyshire but coalescing with the rest of the planet. Often involves coffee and cake or beer. It is an irregular meet in various spaces, physical and digital, very informal with an emergent outlook. Machines Dream Too are Looking to develop ways to; actively care through discussion, collaboration, creation and curation the making and showing of work. If you would like to be a part of our environment please connect with us via Instagram, follow the page, send us a PM and we will send you a random PDF. No pressure.
