Below are the various skill enhancement courses I have taken in my spare time. These do not count towards a degree, and are taken to sharpen my skills, or learn more about a topic.
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Courses marked with ✼ are ongoing.
HYPERVOLITION STUDY
In June 2020, Jevi coined the term hypervolition and defined the Jevinian Orders and Phases. These ideas on algorithmic influence are shared through a series of works, experiences, and texts. This art-based research (AbR) investigates and communicates the effects of our reliance on algorithms.
Hypervolition is the inability of consciousness to differentiate our real desires and choices, from algorithmically-deduced and imposed desires and choices.
HYPERVOLITION: OUR SACRIFICE OF CHOICE (JEVI 2020)
My research is disseminated through both art and text. My art-based research includes many aspects of the arts, for example, poetry, sound, VR, video, and photography. Art is used to collect data, and to interpret and present the findings. Together, the works investigate and communicate the ideas of my research.
GAZE\\corridor (2022)
an experimental audio portrait exploring the ideas of perception and art – how we perceive art, the importance of art, how we interact with art, and its influence. The experimental work is inspired by the written works several theorists — George Lamming, Neil deGrasse Tyson, John Berger, and Tina Campt.
My.o.T (2021)
a hyperfilm on our relationship with I.o.T. (Internet of Things) devices. This collaborative work is the result of a study of how we (myself included) view our present and future interactions with IoT devices in both negative and positive lights.
In Plain Sight (2020)
a short film addressing the concepts of hyperreality, digital/data over-consumption, and beauty. It explores the question of what is real, and the consumption of what isn’t. It draws on the concepts of hyperreal defined in Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulations.
EVO (2023)
EVO is a collection of code-based instruments that play as a section as part of an electronic acoustic orchestra. This experimental project explores the evolution of a composer’s sound-painting gestures and directions, as it propagates through to a section of an orchestra. The project makes references to the evolution of RNA, governance, and the way that mutations occur in nature, and is are related to the fields of memetics, philosophy of science and of the mind, and epistemology. This project was developed at the DIStributed PERformance and Sensorial immersION Lab.
Help Me Consume You (2023)
an interactive sculpture highlighting the environmental impacts of our use of algorithms. The sculpture will be completed in late 2023.
1NT3R 4LIA (2021)
an immersive audio-visual webVR experience that attempts to place you in my shoes as I explored what was happening in the world around me, when developing the ideas that led to “hypervolition.” The phrase “inter alia” is Latin for “amongst other things.” The piece places you in an audio-visual landscape, where you experience the news headlines as they fly pass you. This work is the result of a STEEP+V exercise.
The Resistance (2020)
a speculative fiction short story in an immersive audio format. It tells the story of a highly governed future society, and the struggle against it. This work uses speculative fiction writing, world building, and immersive SFX to bring the reader into a world set 50 years into the future, featuring the extrapolated ideas of hypervolition. It also hints at the positive advancements that have occurred as a result of the type of governance within this society.
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Texts include journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, essays, monographs, and theses on hypervolition or adjacent topics.
Temporarily locked until Q3 2023
… innovations possess the ability to create and maintain power […] There is an ability to […] wield power through our tools, inventions, and discoveries.
THE POWER IN POWER (JEVI 2022)
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The spirit of the polymath resides within this research as I sought to utilise many forms of expression …
– Jevi 2021
Jevi designed all the promotional material for the programming below.
Theory Sessions at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism promotes interdisciplinary research across the campus, providing students and faculty with the opportunity to present their work and engage in lively discussions. It welcomes all topics and enjoy presenting an eclectic range of scholarship. It has held sessions from scholars in a wide range of disciplines such as computer science, medical science, philosophy, English literature, women’s studies, sociology, political science, visual arts, art history, psychology, history, and more.
It hosted 6 to 8 sessions a year between 2021 and 2023.
The Services to Artists Committee (SAC) was formed by the College Art Association Board of Directors to seek broader participation by artists and designers in the organization and the Annual Conference.
Each year, the committee puts together 8 to 14 panels, workshops and an art exhibition, that address concerns facing artists and designers, and shares new ideas.
Link: Let’s Get Digital, Part 1 & 2
Link: Let’s Get Digital, Part 3
Link: Awash in Digital Imagery: what next for traditional art and museums?
Contingencies of Care, a virtual residency, is co-hosted by Graduate Studies at OCAD University, ECUAD, the Toronto Biennial of Art, BUSH Gallery, UBC Okanagan and kinādās collective.
The Arctic/Amazon project at the Wapatah: Centre for Indigenous Visual Knowledge is premised on the understanding that artists integrate notions of spirituality, ancestral respect, traditional knowledges, and political critique into their processes of making and presenting their work.
Envisioned as a multi-phase interdisciplinary project, the 2019 Symposium centralized Indigenous ontological approaches to develop interconnections between Amazonian Indigenous and Inuit thinkers, artists, and activists whose works address climate change midst shifting political times.
The purpose of this initial Symposium was to foster and facilitate a collaborative framework in which participants from Inuit and primarily Brazilian-based Amazonian communities could share their knowledges and consider future work together. This symposium was the first of its kind to provide an in-depth artistic and Indigenous-led exploration of these geographies.