Arieh Frosh is an artist currently based in London.
I work via a cross-disciplinary approach, using writing, 3D computer animation, motorised sculptures, film and participation to form narrative-based projects. Some recent interests are around how technology, ecological and interspecies thinking can produce fictions that might question local contemporary conditions, and could form generative alternatives.
Since 2020, I have collaborated with artist Ed Compson, as well as university researchers, focus groups and schoolchildren, on a series of artworks, workshops, and research experiments. These have involved technologies that might only become visual through translation, from seabed scanning, to electromagnetic listening, to recording wind speed. We do this to engage with a world that operates — and is made operational — through non-visual means, with visual and material effects. This approach, combined with a critical employment of fiction and an experimental use of tools, allows for a questioning of how machine and ecological thinking operate, interpellate us, and affect imagination.
See: aphoticdepths.xyz
Together, we are currently East Gallery Fellows at Norwich University of the Arts. Our research considers how the meeting of contemporary offshore wind turbines with the geological history of Doggerland could be a tool to creatively explore the historical, cultural, and political narratives surrounding wind energy and oceanic thinking. The approach to this is through a responsive workshop practice, site visits, connections with archaeologists, filming, collaborative making and a varied technological practice.
I am also a Producer of the Digital Programme at The Photographers’ Gallery, which focuses on social, ecological, aesthetic and political issues arising from the photographic image in network culture. The programme works on computational photography, synthetic imaging, digital labour, machine vision, automation and the camera.
See: unthinking.photography
I am a graduate of the RCA, London and the University of Oxford.