Professor Teresa Dillon

• Creative practices, aesthetics, methods, theories and approaches too:
• >> Repair, Maintenance and Healing Cultures including >> Tactics of planned obsolescence and the black-box nature of computational design >> Material life cycles of technologies (esp those relating to critical and rare earth materials, electronic waste) >> Specialist forms of digital repair, admin, manufacturing, monitoring and maintenance >> Design practices dealing with energy consumption of tech, and/or other ways of designing digital tools, aesthetic methods/approaches >> Digital cottage industries, skilled trades and craft practices 
• >> Internet, Sonic and Digital Media Cultures >> Artist-led media archaeology (ALMA), surveillance and media histories, audio cultures, design histories (particularly those relating to the Internet, and digital technologies post 1994
• >> Datafication and Civic Life >>  Algorithmic governance and justice >> Auto-ethnography as a form of storytelling around tech futures, pasts and presents >> Radio and sonic experiments, including the amplification of the electronic magnetic spectrum >> Digital sovereignty including community radio, AI and Internet initiatives, with a focus on local servers, hosting and services of care, digital upkeep and inheritance
• >> Ritual & Site-based practices >> Immersive, performative and hybrid formats dealing with above thematics / contemporary digital cultures >> Other than human ritual practices  >> Role of sound, dance, movement and the design of artefacts in ritual

Teresa’s work is conceptually and practically engaged with the ways in which technology organises living arrangements and the ethics of technological development.

For over two decades, she has explored this through a performance, sonic, spatial, and visual arts practice that focuses on the datafication of civic space and the built environment, as well as the ecological and environmental impacts of technology, with a particular emphasis on cultures of repair, care, maintenance, and healing.

Key concepts in her work relate to hacking, hosting, ritual practices in post-human law and working at what she refers to as the ‘break point’, meaning when tools, technologies and infrastructures fail, break down, and/or become obsolete or discarded.

With her work taking the form of online and site-based works, sound, mixed digital media, experiments in learning and conversational formats, curatorial projects, community engagement, traditional desk-based and participatory forms of research. Much of her work emerges in collaboration with others through multi-year programmes of sustained public engagement and activity.

Current & Key Works/Projects:

Multi-year projects include: Repair Acts (2018-), Repair Coalitions (2024-), Urban Hosts (2013)

Artistic works: Cleansing Rituals for the Internet (2020-ongoing), MTCD: A Visual Anthology of My Machine Life (2016-ongoing), Go Deo (2018-)

Curatorial Programmes: Elemental Threads (2025-)

For more details go to Publications and Teresa's personal website.