Maple & Myring

An ongoing research project that explores the connections between collage, non-fiction histories and AI image generation.

The project aims to understand the underlying relationships between these essentially found materials to create a methodology that explores new and overlapping ways to present narratives by assembling analogue and digital materials.

Research methods use archival materials and a personal visual language to produce composite works utilising hybrids of analogue and digital materials such as found objects, collage and generative art combined through elements such as, but not limited to, performance, expanded film and exhibition.

In turn, it aims to understand how they can be used to explore new transmedia solutions that could be applied to other narratives and archives, thereby opening possibilities for further projects using the same methodology.

Maple and Myring is an umbrella term for a series of projects that explore these spaces. It will involve a series of overlapping experiments and outcomes with the input of an interchangeable set of collaborators and participants.

Click below on individual projects for more information or you can follow progress on Instagram here.

Note: The Maple and Myring project is named after the authors of a series of children's books on paranormal phenomena published by Usborne in the early 1980s. 


Unreliable Narrators:

The Past Inside the Present

Unreliable Narrators is the first activity under the Maple and Myring umbrella and is a proof-of-concept project investigating the integration of AI-generated images, collage & motion graphics.


D.A.N.D.E.L.I.O.N

A series of short film projects exploring generative AI image making, frame interpolation and data set learning based inspired by the Boards Of Canada track Dandelion.


S.E.L.F

Repeated use of identical prompts and variations to develop a series of images and films of the Maple & Myring parallel world.


Ladion of Sloed

Newsprint zine created from AI images.