We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the people of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

VCA Art 2024

Jessica Laraine Williams' PhD research responds to the significant existential challenges of the twenty-first century. These include the processes of accelerating technological mediation, the climate crisis, social and ecological disparity, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Posthumanism, in discourse with these conditions, emerges as a heterogeneous field of transdisciplinary inquiry that includes an intersection with artistic research and practice, with a corresponding diversity in how the confluence is studied, practiced, and ultimately understood. Conducted between 2016 and 2023, Williams' thesis-only PhD project responds to this critical and creative juncture. She adapts the historical figure of the cyborg toward a contemporary conception of virtuality, proposes a multispecies aesthetic and reworking of the relationships between humans, nature and well-being.

Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-laraine-williams-a67768132/