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@rowanhannah making underwater sound recordings during her micro residency with us #substrate

PH test at the Blue Lagoon yesterday @rowanhannah Substrate

Field recording with @rowanhannah at Burbage Edge yesterday #Substrate

Day 2 of Substrate with @rowanhannah at the Blue Lagoon

At Sheffield University yesterday with @rowanhannah and Professor Russell Hand, learning about the vitrification of nuclear waste into glass.

We are very excited that @rowanhannah will be joining us, this Friday, to begin her residency. Substrate is the first in a series of short residencies hosted by Basic Channel. Hannah Rowan will be the first artist to join us in this programme, which will provide space to research through field trips, site visits and conversations. Her current work explores how processes of transformation, growth, reaction, adaptation, evolution and degradation can alter the natural and material states of our environment. Image. Hannah Rowan, Aqueous, 2019, glass tank, digital print on silk, welded steel, 3D printed PLA, cast aluminium, light Image courtesy of Assembly Point, London and the Artist

@rowanhannah , Prima Materia, 2019, @assembly_point

@rowanhannah , Lithification, 2019, Digital print on transparency film, cast aluminium, 3D printed PLA, glazed ceramics, welded steel, glass, light. Image courtesy of @assembly_point , London and the Artist

@rowanhannah , Triple Point, 2019 Salt, aquarium pumps, water, glass tanks, ice, copper pipes, silicone hose, welded steel, 3D printed gypsum, lights, clamp clips, acrylic tray, moss. Image courtesy of @assembly_point , London and the Artist

We have just added 0rphan Drift’s ‘OctoGANN A Fiction’ to our website. The text is a short piece of fiction further exploring ideas from their work ‘If AI Were Cephalopod,’ which imagines the expansive possibilities of Artificial Intelligence unbound by the limits of human thought processes. The work investigates the remarkably complex cognition of other creatures, speculating on the ways in which artificial consciousness could be embodied in a more-than-human future. -Link in Bio

@rowanhannah , Flowscape, 2018, welded steel, natural rubber bungee, ice screw, ice, meat hook, 3D printed gypsum, glass tank, water, electric fan, floating acrylic cube, aquarium pump, PVC flexible house, image fragments, acylic trays with plaster fragments and salt crystals, frosted plexiglass with salt crystals, G clamp, copper piping, extruded acrylic tubes, plaster fragments, bricks, digital prints on polyester film, light, steel tube, sand in zip-lock bag, thread, copperized rock, alligator clips, salt crystal

We are pleased to announce Substrate. Substrate is the first in a series of short residencies hosted by Basic Channel. @rowanhannah will be the first artist to join us in this programme, which will provide space to research through field trips, site visits and conversations. Her current work explores how processes of transformation, growth, reaction, adaptation, evolution and degradation can alter the natural and material states of our environment. This first iteration of Substrate will include visiting a flooded abandoned limestone quarry where the PH level of the water has risen above the acidity of bleach. Substrate’s core aim is to support open-ended artistic research, without any particular outcome being set. Hannah will join us to discuss her work on our first podcast, whilst the progress of her research undertaken during the residency will unfold on an evolving web platform in the months following. Basic Channel aims to provide long-term support and open-ended opportunities to artists, centred around the development of experimental research and opportunities to test out new methods of production and distribution for their work. Substrate understands the needs of each artist individually, through continued conversation, this allows the support the programme offers to adapt alongside the changing requirements of a developing artistic practice. Image. Hannah Rowan, Prima Materia @assembly_point