CCRP 26–27: Jimi DePriest

Drawing on their experience in electronic art and sound design, Jimi DePriest will explore how ‘clutter rejection’—an adaptive method observed in echolocating bats—can function as a vector for navigating dystopic chaos. Regarding this process as a behavioural response to the infiltration of urban noise into the acoustic terrain traversed by bats, their conceptual approach will problematise and reconfigure echolocation as a site of artistic inspiration and technological invention.

With assistance from Matthew Taggart and conceptual input from Lia T, Jimi will work with a four-channel audio system, DIY electronics, and video projections to catalyse a mercurial ecosystem of ultrasonic frequencies, digital synthesis, data signals, sensors, and moving images. Utilising the CC studio as a space for material experimentation, technological development, and research, their residency will materialise an entropic sonic field, guided by a curiosity for chaotic feedback.

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Jimi DePriest is an emerging electronic artist and researcher whose creative practice is influenced by their research interests in composing Marxist and anti-imperialist analyses of automation and weapons technologies. Fusing tactical media with bio-art, their work often distils the material consequences of neoliberalism and potentials for resistance into conceptually potent visual symbols.

The interdisciplinary nature of Jimi’s practice has enabled them to develop skills across critical theory, wet-lab media, electronics, and filmmaking. They seek to continue expanding this practice to produce increasingly complex and transgressive electronic media installations while broadening the conceptual scope of their work to touch more explicitly on themes of cyberfeminism and psychoanalysis.

➡️ Publication [PDF]
➡️ Bridget Chappell: B.A.T. (Begetting Antiestablishmentarianism in Totality) [SoundCloud]