Holly Childs

Holly Childs (Netherlands/Australia) is a writer and artist researching the language and emotions of ecological and computational systems. She was a 2017 postgraduate researcher in The New Normal program at Strelka Institute, Moscow, and is the author of Danklands (Arcadia Missa, 2014-7) and No Limit (Hologram, 2014). Recent commissions include: Hydrangea 1 with J. G. Biberkopf (Composers Union, Vilnius; Rietveld Studium Generale, Amsterdam; Firstdraft, Sydney, 2018), Angela Goh’s Uncanny Valley Girl (Festival of Live Art, Melbourne; Liveworks, Sydney; and Baltic Circle, Helsinki, 2018); Patternist, a collaboratively developed sci-fi urban exploration augmented reality game demo featuring poetry-as-system-voice (Impakt, Utrecht; Sonic Acts Academy, Amsterdam; Moneylab, London 2018; and Electromuseum, Moscow; Crosstalk, Budapest; Rhizome, NYC, 2017); Have The Dusk Deepen, for Rogue Agents curated by Auto Italia, at Firstdraft, Sydney (2017), also published by SOd (2018); writer for Adam Linder’s choreographic service Some Proximity (Biennale of Sydney, 2016); and Danklands [Swamped] for Liquid Architecture (NGV, Melbourne, 2015). She has been a runner up in The Lifted Brow’s Experimental Non-Fiction Prize (2017), a founding editor of both Worm Hole (2015-6) and Crazy in Love (2011-4), and an associate producer at Next Wave (2015-6).

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