Michelle Marie Forrest's Unproductive Algorithm
Axis member and recent recipient of the Axis Bursary, Michelle Marie Forrest, gives us an inside look into where she makes her work, what motivates her and who she is collaborating with.
A Series of One Liners (Recto-Verso), 2024, Michelle Marie Forrest, photo by Dan Weill
In this studio tour, Michelle Marie Forrest invites us into the space where her work takes shape, sharing the materials, ideas and processes that guide her practice.
Michelle Marie Forrest Studio visit
“ In October 2025, following my Axis Critical Friend Conversation with digital artist Antonio Roberts who curated Patterns & Process, I started using a free visual programming tool that he recommended.
I have since reached a technical limit with my programming skills, so I applied for the Axis Bursary to fund the support of a specialist—musician and creative coder Charlie Hooper-Williams—who can help me devise a technical specification for a potential prototype—a future audiovisual immersive work.
In this future work my embroidered house-puzzle, c0de to Home: A Series of O Liners 2024, could be transcoded into a digital work, using a functional yet unproductive algorithm, resulting in a form of communication endlessly in the making.
My practice revolves around a "scattered methodology"—a constellation of objects, images, contextual references, and processes—in which the impact of interconnected structural forces and the psychological reorientation that is needed to try and comprehend the things that feel impossible to talk about or touch upon directly—can be orbited around. "
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