PhD work 

2024-Ongoing
University of Bristol, Centre for Sociodigital Futures

AI Oracles and Creative Practices: (De)mystifying the Black Box through the Metaphorical Framework of Divination and Magic

I am looking at Divination and Magic as specific, culturally situated practices of Knowing and Doing in the world, using them as a metaphorical framework to critically question interactions with AI (and AI as a practice of Knowing and Doing).

The research is led by practice, through the development of Oracular Interfaces: provocative objects that “speak” and enable interaction with the form and shape that AI systems take. I started characterising my approach as Epistemic Mischief: a form of playful misuse of technologies of knowledge, a sincere and participatory method of generating insight.

Below, you can get more information on AI experiments related to the thesis:

︎︎︎BIRD - Webcam Augury (2025)

︎︎︎Data Poets (2020-25)

︎︎︎Botter (2023-25)

︎︎︎Omen.OS (2023)