About — Ellen Gilbert

About

Ellen Gilbert is a multidisplinary artist and her research is rooted in cyberpsychology. Through directed and self-recorded still and moving image performance, Ellen crafts altered realities from real locations creating fictional narratives to convey how technology moulds our perceptions and behaviours.

These works manifest as cinematic essays and installations that play with our sense of time and of recent - challenge notions of digital well-being, autonomy and surveillance. By questioning our perception of temporary reality, Ellen offers up a mirror on the paradoxes of our contemporary existence and the way we feel, live, and communicate in today’s world.

Her practice is influenced by her exploration into how social media and the digital economy reshape societal dynamics, impacting human behaviour and well-being. Her research methods are diverse, ranging from immersing herself in off-grid woodland communities to attending conferences on the ethics of technology, and partaking in an 8-month Consciously Digital training program.

Current

The Digital Wellness Centre | NEXTNATURE Museum | https://nextnature.org/en/museum/digital-wellness-center

Upcoming

Patron’s of the Future | The Art Academy | Group Show | London - 20th March - 3rd April 2025

Between a frame and a soft place | Millenium film workshop | New York - April 18th 2025

Selected recent exhibtions

Oct 2024 - ‘Technological Disruptions’ Group Exhibtion, University of Twente, Netherlands

July 2024 - MFA Fine Art Degree Show | Goldsmiths, University of London

May 2024 - ‘HYPHA FIXED - Phantom Arena’, Gossamer Fog, Performance, London

Oct 2022 - ‘Hypha Studios Presents’ 56 Conduit Street, Group Exhibtion, Mayfair - London

Sep 2022 - ‘Present Tense’, Deptford X Festival, Group exhibtion

June 2022 - ‘It might be about care or it might be about digging...’, Lumen Crypt Gallery, Group Exhibtion, London

March 2022 - Futures_After, Group show, Hypha Studios, Catford - London

Sep 2021 - On Hold, Group Exhibtion, Deptford - London

Talks

Jan 2025 - Panelist on ‘Creativity & Generative AI: Philosophical Perspectives on Creative Uses of Artificial Intelligence’, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands: https://www.ozsw.nl/activity/creativity-generative-ai-philosophical-perspectives-on-creative-uses-of-artificial-intelligence-2/

Oct 2024 Panelist for ‘Art as Epistemological Practise: ‘Rethinking Ethics - Reimaging Techngology’ International Conference, Esdit - University of Twente, Netherlands: https://www.esdit.nl/event/esdit-4tu-ethics-conference-rethinking-ethics-reimagining-technology/

Feb 2022 - Artist talk: Ellen Gilbert, Futures_After at Hypha Studios

Dec 2022 - ‘I was just wondering with tom’ podcast: S3 Ep 10: Artist & Researcher Ellen Gilbert

Workshops

Feb 2025 - More than Human World: Exploring our connection to the natural world in a digital age

Oct 2024 - Techgosis Collective Retreat, 3 day Mind Body Spirit offline residency - Belgium, Brussles

Sep 2024 - Techgnosis Collective Launch, Manifesto Workshop and Discussion on AI, Art and Spirituality

May 2022 - Culture Talk: ‘Rethinking Technology in an Off-Grid Community’ Tinker’s Bubble community interview and discussion.

March 2022 - ‘How has the digital economy changed how artists work and navigate together in the artworld?’ Screening and workshop discussion, hosted with Hypha Studios at Futures_After.

Fellowships

Sep 2024-2025 - Goldsmiths University of London: MFA Fine Art Junior Fellow for Goldsmiths Drawing Centre for Humans and Machines

Education