Research Proposal
Angelus Novus 1 contemplates image repetition, ritual, and the body's mediation within digital networks. Featuring visuals by Ruby Bailey and sound by Zaid Sajdi, this video is adapted from Isaac Sullivan's 2023 lecture performance, Echo Holdings x Angelus Novus, which appeared at Reference Point, London; and incorporates a dialogue with an LLM chatbot preoccupied with teleology, subjectivity, and time. Angelus Novus 1 first appeared in the 2024 group exhibition, Chiaroscuro, curated by Michele Lamy in cooperation with Carpenters Workshop Gallery. The sound was included on the vinyl EP, CAST: Music for No Country, curated by the Singaporean collective, ToNewEntities.
Cybernetic Listening is an artist collective, founded in 2023 by Isaac Sullivan and Zaid Sajdi, which contemplates the digitally mediated body while tracing and configuring new lines of interspecies communication through installation, performance, and video. Now joined by Neda Salmanpour and Ruby Bailey, the group is working with biofeedback, parametric geometries, and large-language-model-generated text; and is based in Dubai, Johannesburg, Amman, and New York.
Bio
Ruby Bailey is a South African multimedia artist who engages with contemporary technofetishism, using digital aesthetics to explore perennial themes. Through film, digital media, and installation, she examines identity, interconnectedness and hidden protocols within cyber and rave culture. Fascinated by the techno-body and virtual spaces, Bailey creates immersive landscapes that merge AI-generated visuals, hidden camera footage, and speculative collages, revealing liminal spaces where digital and IRL worlds overlap and bodies dissolve. Her video Loobtopia, released on Metalabel, applies AI to lived experience to interrogate everyday conceptions of the real. Currently in residence at NIROX Sculpture Park, she is developing Ethereality, a series debuting at Everard Read Gallery in 2025, featuring sculptures and paintings that materialize the digital through analogue interactive computers of steel and magnet, crudely encrypted nude prints, and landscapes of infinite digital recursion.
Website: https://l00bi.myportfolio.com/work
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/callmel00bi/
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