Deborah Tchoudjinoff is a multidisciplinary artist based in London. Her practice is the result of research into the temporal and spatial aspects of ecologies, often making work about something that no longer exists. She takes notice of how technology constructs, remembers, and forgets the stories of past and future ecologies alongside climate change.
Deborah works primarily with screen based image making and material sculpture to create mixed media installations. Often beginning with a locality or research concept, she considers what the form is through the process of material and visual experimentations. She is influenced by fiction and future story worlds as a method and her work is inspired by otherworldly aesthetics, utopian hope, and the tension between what is natural and technological. Through the personal lens of her own heritage she feels it is important to imagine futures in uncertain times.
Deborah studied at the Royal College of Art (2016) and is currently Lecturer in Emerging Technology at London College of Communication, UAL, London. She has exhibited work in the UK and Portugal such as the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 6th Edition (2022), at the Victoria & Albert Museum (2019), Tate Exchange (2019), as part of Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi) Art, Anthropology, and Mongol Futurism (2018) among other group shows.
Exhibitions
Upcoming: Group show at Art On (TR) | September 2023
PADA Studios Residency 39 Group Show curated by Tania Geiroto Marcelino (PT) | July 2023
Lisbon Architecture Triennale 6th Edition ‘Terra’ at Palacio Sinel De Cordes curated by Cristina Verissimo and Diogo Burnay (please contact me for a link VR videos) (PT) | October 2022
‘The Comrades They Were Brave - We Salute You!’ group show at 44 Great Russell Street curated by Cecilia Sjoholm supported by the Arts Council England (UK) | March - April 2022
‘Close To Home’ group show at JGM Gallery curated by Fiona Grady, Hannah Luxton, and Linda Hemmersbach (UK) | August - September 2021
‘The Portal Will Open’ Multimedia Anthropology Lab at Slade School of Fine Art group show collectively curated (UK) | 2020
Scenograph self organised group show at Obiter Architecture Space with Cecilia Sjoholm, Iain Hales, and Obiter Architecture (please contact me for a link VR video) (UK) | 2020
Multimedia Anthropology Lab x Tate Exchange ‘Translating Futures’ curated by Hyphen Labs for Higher Resolution Programme at Tate Modern (Blatnavik Building) (UK) | 2020
V+A Digital Design Weekend ‘Baigala II’ programmed by Marc Barto (UK) | 2019
‘Speculative Immersion’ group show as part of Multimedia Anthropology Lab (UK) | 2019
‘Plumial Space’ a collaboration with Nestor Pestana exhibited at Arcade East (UK) | 2018
‘Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi) Art, Anthropology, and Mongol Futurism’ group show at greengrassi gallery, Corvi-Mora curated by Hermione Spriggs (please contact me for a link VR videos), press release here (UK) | 2018
London Creative Network Showcase at Space Studios (UK) | 2017
‘Darkness Cannot Drive Out Darkness, Only The Light Can Do That’ group show at Lights of Soho (UK) | 2016
‘Creative Matters’ group show at Oxo Bargehouse curated by Designersblock (UK) | 2016
‘Changing Minds’ Festival at Southbank Centre programmed by James Cowdery (UK) | 2016
MA Design Interactions Final Show at the Royal College of Art (UK) | 2016
MA Design Interactions Work in progress (UK) | 2015
‘Biotechnominimarket’ group pop-up show by Extrapolation Factory (UK) | 2015
MA Design Interactions Work in progress (UK) | 2014
Talks + workshops
UAL EdEx Conference - Amasia presentation (UK) | 2022
‘EVA London Conference’ New Heritage paper presentation as contributor (UK) | 2021
‘Into the Wild’ Conference at UAL - 13.2% Performative Lecture in collaboration with Synthetic Products (please contact me for a link to the recording) (UK) | 2021
‘Immersive Practices’ lecture for BA Film and Screen Studies, LCC (UK) | 2021
‘Studio At The End Of The World’ - Artist talk and panel discussion organised by Supra Systems Studio during London Design Festival (UK) | 2020
AR Workshop for MA Graphic and Media Design students, LCC (UK) | 2020
Artist talk and presentation for MA Interaction Design students, LCC (UK) | 2020
Multimedia Anthropology Lab x Tate Exchange ‘Translating Futures’ artists talk curated by HyphenLabs for Higher Resolution Programme at Tate Modern (Blatnavik Building) (UK) | 2020
‘Body Ecosystem Workshop: A Toolkit for the Future’ in collaboration with Nestor Pestana programmed by the V+A (UK) | 2018
‘Body Ecosystem Workshop’ in collaboration with Nestor Pestana for students and alumni at the London College of Fashion (UK) | 2018
Collective Timelining public workshop at ‘Creative Matters’ Group Show at Oxo Bargehouse curated by Designersblock (UK) | 2016
Contributing designer/participant for Globale: Reset Modernity at ZKM curated by Bruno Latour et al. (DE) | 2016
Residencies
PADA Residency 2023 (PT) | July-August 2023
Design Residency Programme at Fashion Space Gallery with Nestor Pestana programmed by Ligaya Salazar (UK) | 2018
London Creative Network Showcase at Space Studios (UK) | 2017
Press + awards
The Comrades They Were Brave - We Salute You! by Cherry Smith in ArtMontly No.456, May 2022
‘The City of Gold and the Art of New Futures’ by Right Click Save, May 25, 2022
Plumial Space Youfab Global Creative Awards 2020 (Finalist)
Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi) - Art, Anthropology, and Mongol Futurism reviewed by Ned Carter Miles for Art Asia Pacific Nov/Dec 2018 Issue 111
Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi) - Art, Anthropology, and Mongol Futurism reviewed Philomena Epps for e-flux, 17 September 2018
Installation: ‘The Anthropocene Body - Plumial Space’ at Arcade East London by Clot Magazine, 13 Sep 2018
Grants
DYCP Arts Council 2023
Papers + publications
Contributions to New Heritage: New media art between cultural heritage experience and artefact, July 2021
Contributions to Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi) - Art, Anthropology, and Mongol Futurism, September 2018
Education
Recognised Fellow HEA at LCC, University of the Arts London (UK) | 2022
PG-Cert at LCC, University of the Arts London (UK) | 2020-2021
MA Design Interactions, Royal College of Art (UK) | 2016
BA/Bsc Industrial Design, University of the Arts Philadelphia (USA) | 2006
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