Outputs (9)

From bitter ground (2023)
Digital Artefact

From Bitter Ground is an experience that weaves between the printed page, a building that cannot possibly exist, and your presence within the whole work.

Taking the form of a set of books delivered to each of 2 readers, the work subsequently cons... Read More about From bitter ground.

The future isn’t what they thought it would be (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The hype cycle for new technologies and their implementation continues to distract creators from making the most of what they already have in order to construct meaningful narrative experiences. This paper examines some of the more foundational probl... Read More about The future isn’t what they thought it would be.

A provocation for post-digital publishing (2022)
Physical Artefact

A series of practice-led arguments around affect, physicality and digital frameworks. Published April 2022.

Ambient Literature: Towards a New Poetics of Situated Writing and Reading Practices (2020)
Book

This book considers how a combination of place-based writing and location responsive technologies produce new kinds of literary experiences. Building on the work done in the Ambient Literature Project (2016–2018), this books argues that these encount... Read More about Ambient Literature: Towards a New Poetics of Situated Writing and Reading Practices.

These pages fall like ash (Second Edition) (2020)
Other

The work comprises the second edition of an original fiction by Tom Abba and Circumstance, with input from writers Neil Gaiman and Nick Harkaway. Twin cities, one imagined as parallel to another, real site, each possess distinct rules and cultures, d... Read More about These pages fall like ash (Second Edition).

Words we never wrote (2018)
Other

Words We Never Wrote addresses an emergent quality of ambient works. It constructs a non-linear experiential narrative within a bookended structure, asking its audience to engage with a physical ‘marker’ too - a series of built artworks (WWNW) and a... Read More about Words we never wrote.

A manifesto for ambient literature (2017)
Digital Artefact

A Manifesto for Ambient Literature comprises 22 pre-printed A5 cards, each comprising a provocation, gesture or argument drawn from a larger definition of Ambient Literature. Collectively, they represent a mid-way exploration of the research project,... Read More about A manifesto for ambient literature.

These Pages Fall Like Ash (2016)
Other

The work comprises an original fiction by Tom Abba and Circumstance, with input from writers Neil Gaiman and Nick Harkaway. Twin cities, one imagined as parallel to another, real site, each possess distinct rules and cultures, details of which are pr... Read More about These Pages Fall Like Ash.

This is Not a Book (2016)
Other

Writing in the age of the web