I am pleased to share my collection of badges I’ve found while snuffling about London:
1. The OG ART badge I found on a bus, I think circa 2015. Given the timeframe the bus was likely the 343. I wear this on a wicker bag that only comes out occasionally because nothing fits in it.
2. A crushed Millwall club badge I found wandering around on the street, in/around New Cross 2025 and brought to show Leo because football.
3. A British Puppet Guild badge, found on the 185 bus in 2026. Suprisingly unrelated to an event I attended at the Art Workers Guild earlier in the year where there were Puppet Guild bits knocking around.
4. Minnie mouse with cat on head, found on the steps of a routemaster heading to Somerset House to watch a mock trial as part of the N-Space fellowship programme. Some poor kid is heartbroken. (No kids around to whom to return, I checked)
5. Honorable mention: “I’m the cleverest weetabix in the universe...” I genuinely can’t remember if I found this or bought it, or if I stole it from a sister. Included for excellence.
Next in our artists announcement for In Touch are Katie Tindle and Megan Bates, who have collaborated on an experimental non-linear film dealing with sensuality, pornography, technological accellerationism and solutionism.
Megan Bates @herdofsheep is a multi-disciplinary artist working in London. She also works as a software developer in climate-focussed energy systems modelling at transition zero.
She uses her experience as a physicist and software developer to create works using scientific mediums such as programming, electronics, and 3D-modelling, alongside more traditional materials. Her work primarily reflects on our relationship with technology, through feminism, environmentalism, and the philosophy of science.
Katie Tindle @ktwindmill is a contemporary artist, writer and creative technologist living in London, originally from the North East of England.
In Touch at Avalon Cafe
24.01.26, 7:30pm-1am
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In-cognito event
last night at @ormsideprojects
thank you to @ktwindmill and @in_grid___ for the invitation and collaboration 🫶🏻
📷 by @stathis_d
Next up on our list of performers is incredible artist/choreographer/dancer @irini.klz and In-grid's own @ktwindmill They will be sharing a new collaboration @ Halloween show at @ormsideprojects next Wednesday. They will be performing a work which explores baring ones bones on the internet 💀☠️🦴
Tickets in bio!!
I am showing some work in a show with @_akinsola@marisadimonda@johannadeverdier and Becky Aston and I would love it if you came. We’re thinking about slow work, craft and tech, and efficiency versus painstaking care. It should be fun, and a bit odd.
Second pic is of me being bitten by a duck, enjoy.
I've had some work in a show recently: Losing the Plot @ Hackney Downs Studios. The show is closing soon and we're having a closing party to finish out the year and launch a zine we've made during the show.
Come and join us on the 21st Dec if you haven't already visited, or even if you already have but you just like it loads: we'll have wine and music/informal DJ sets.
There's more info in the last slide/@in_grid___
Recently I made a video for @loubrishanterry song ‘Green Man’ featuring @aaimeecm and a load of other people too. You can watch the full music video on lovely Lou’s YouTube. I hope you like it.
Some sneaker peeks of my work featuring in an upcoming @in_grid___ exhibition. The pv coming up on the 7th November 6-9 Hackney Downs studios, e8 2bt Plz come along!
Recently I showed a collaboration made with Rebecca Aston and shown at @avaloncafebermondsey The work was based on finding the breaking point of computer vision (in this case skeleton tracking for hands) and playing with the idea of occlusion, intimacy and how machine learning models can be flattening/normative in the way they see bodies and moments of connection. This was our first time working as a duo, although we work together extensively in larger groups through @in_grid___ and @goldsmithscomparts@gold.computing
A slightly belated post - but very pleased to share some images of our panel at EASST conference earlier this month. We were pleased to host a combined panel, taking a critical look at digital “cloud” infrastructures and how to counter their centralised corporate models. We looked to how collectives and communities are making transformations in infrastructures as system admins, forming protocols and ways of doing otherwise. We also led a workshop on how to set up and work with a small raspberry pi server, and are hosting a federated blog (ci.servpub.net) to collect thoughts around collective infra outside of the conference setting. We are very grateful for contributions from Donna Holdford Lovell, Femke Snelting (TITiPI), @julia_nueno , Pablo Velasco and colleagues. Many thanks also to systerserver for making the VPN and subdomain mapping/infrastructure possible for ci.servpub.net 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢Also included in the images are some Egyptian geese, our server and a jokes sign.
Of In-grid @sun.seeking.goth , @ktwindmill and @4_lorn_ attended in person, with significant contributions from @sunni0o and Rebecca Aston in the run up. #independentinfrastructure #collectivetechnologies #minortech #artistcollective #experimental technology
