Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020

Silence Awareness Existence program / MARCH 2022
Jill Borremans
Belgium
About
As an emerging cultural practitioner, narrative worlds take a
centre place in my interests. Such worlds that are increasingly
becoming more technological and digital in nature require
a new architectural (thought) framework. By basing these
digitally entrenched symbolisms within a philosophy of AI,
and submerging myself into the world of visual aesthetics,
am I able to comprehend our cultural narratives. It is
precisely through the means of philosophy, whereby the
position of “the” human within its (natural) environment is
continuously put in question, that I can see the technological
and cosmological order collide once more—that collision
being; a work of art.
Research into AI/creativity
The work experience Arteles provides played into the creative
writing process I aimed to open up. Being surrounded by
both a natural environment and a lovely group of determined
individuals made it possible to work on a creative process
within a safe space. A space where there is freedom to
think, to reflect, to work, and to fundamentally develop these
reflections. My work experience started out by continuing
to do research for my master dissertation. Gradually was I
able to transform that research experience into a research
practice. I have learned to see both creative writing as well
as forming grounded conceptualisations as art forms. And
therefore skills to be mastered. It has been precisely this
acknowledgement that allowed me to grow within my writing
practice.
My experience at the residency consisted mostly out of
taking time to read; to read outside, to read in the shared
spaces, to read in silence, to read physical books, to read
PDFs. Reading as much as the internal thought experiments
that arise out of the continuous reading, became a form
of meditation. Loose concepts and reflections about my
research topic were formed into sentences, which turned into
longer structured paragraphs. That eventually turned into a
finished chapter that I incorporated into my dissertation. In
conclusion, forming a research topic into a research practice
has been the process that I was able to develop thanks to the
Arteles residency experience.