Thomas Jellis is a doctoral student in the School of Geography at the University of Oxford. His research attends to sites of aesthetic activity and interrogates the emergence of distinctive hybrid spaces of alternative, or non-scientific, experimentation. By drawing on work from a range of disciplines the thesis is driven by three sets of issues: (1) the geographies and genealogies of aesthetic experimentation, (2) the practices and logics of these experiments and (3) the ethico-political potential of these spaces. It is hoped a set of empirical research encounters (an assemblage of field-sites/interventions/collaborations) with spaces of alternative experimentation will have inventive conceptual effects. Thomas has spent time in Montreal with the Topological Media Lab and the SenseLab, in Berlin with the Institut für Raumexperimente, in Brussels with FoAM, and in London with the Office of Experiments.
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