I am a CDP PhD student with the University of Leeds and the National Science and Media Museum. I am exploring the entanglement of people, cameras and mountains using Karen Barad's apparatuses and Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory.
My research aims to counter what Alfred North Whitehead calls 'misplaced concreteness' in museums and enable objects in storerooms to continue their intra-actions and meaning-making.
I started with Captain John Noel's Newman Sinclair Cine camera from a shelf in the storeroom of the National Science and Media Museum. I am tracing its waves of intra-actions, diffraction patterns, and the sedimenting of history through time and space.
Since I can't take cameras out of the storeroom, I am working with cameras analogous to those in the Collection of the National Science and Media Museum and those taken up Mount Everest. With these cameras I seek to collapse time and space and better understand the past in the present.
I am also working on how oral histories and short films can be combined to make online exhibitions about museum objects in everyday life.