Becoming Chimeric
#ArtisticResearch, #Posthuman, #Hybrid, #Embodiment, #Identity , #AI, #Glitc, #AvatarMaking, #AR
2025 - ongoing
“Becoming Chimeric” is a workshop that explores hybrid selfhoods and glitched transformations through hands-on experimentation with AI and Extended Reality.
Emerging from my artistic practice and ongoing PhD research, the workshop introduces glitch aesthetics and chimeric operations as creative strategies to challenge fixed identity constructs and reimagine hybrid corporeality.
Participants collaborate with digital tools and AI to create glitched, chimeric avatars and augmented presences, engaging with speculative modes of self-representation shaped by creative processes, technological mediation, and posthuman imaginaries.
This workshop is not just about making avatars or learning new tools. It is about rethinking how we understand our self-body in digital space. How we layer, fragment, reassemble, multiply, and extend. Glitch - as rupture, as revelation - and chimeric layering - as the co-existence of multiple states - are not merely aesthetic disruptions. They offer pathways into fluid, unstable, unruly, multiple, and political notions of identity, where the body becomes a site of negotiation.
The workshop first iteration was presented during the series Collective Reflections on AI, Art & Culture, curated by Frederik Marroquín and Joanna Zabielska, and hosted at Semmelweisklinik in Vienna on May 24, 2025.