Cat Miller, MRes graduate of 2025 has had a print copy of her thesis acquired by the Wellcome Collection.
Cat writes: “I am delighted to share that the Wellcome Collection has formally acquired a print edition of my MRes thesis: ‘Reimagining Humanitarian, Spiritual and Matrilineal Values in a Patriarchal World, through AI, Cymatics and the Poetic Medium - Utilising Pattern recognition as a resource to amplify higher consciousness’, for their permanent research archives. This second thesis acquired by the Wellcome’s repository further substantiates the research I developed during my recent postgraduate studies at the RCA.
My Album Amicorum Project focuses upon decolonising the traditional Artist’s Book using emerging technologies to explore new kinds of hybrid materialities across multiple modalities. Through the use of AI, AR, VR, XR and Python, I was able to utilise technology's pattern-recognition skills as a mirror, or a channel of co-creation and a potential amplifier of creative sovereignty. This suggests that when we work mindfully with AI as an assistive resource, we are not surrendering our agency, but expanding it. This understanding became the cymatic lens through which I approached both my visual poetic practice and my engagement with AI, for, if we as a collective can accept that we are all direct-extensions of the same intelligent source, then any tool we create, including AI, is not separate from us, but an extension of ourselves, thereby fostering a more ethical relationship between technology, biology, and the environment."
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