Amy Cheatle

What kinds of knowledge and sensory modalities are currently incorporated into large language models, and what are excluded? Aquillm is a place-based AI "archive" that aims to find out. Of particular interest is how sonic data from the field or from the lab helps us make sense of our research world.

This project examines the violin as a boundary object that traverses artistic and scientific domains, exploring how traditional craft knowledge intersects with digital measurement and modeling tools to create new sonic knowledge about the violin. I investigate how the materiality of instruments, embodied practices of musicians, and computational analysis co-constitute a shared sonic world. Ongoing project.

sensitivity to materials and ecological contexts; integration of cognitive, emotional, and physical dimensions of making; and embodied, collaborative learning environments.

I show how surgical teams develop sophisticated compensatory techniques and sensory articulations to overcome the limitations of technologically mediated sensing. These adaptations create a distributed, more-than-human sensorium that extends beyond individual bodies to encompass the entire surgical team and technological system.

I show how this hybrid environment creates new forms of creative expression, reshapes material relationships, and transforms collaborative workflows. Rather than diminishing craft knowledge, I found that new digital tools become entangled with embodied expertise, creating distinctive socio-technical arrangements where digital and physical processes mutually inform each other.

The garden is a research site, philosophical and aesthetic space, and material investigation into plant-people relations. This collaborative project with Lisette Lorenz and Martin Abbott unfolded as a community 'zine, conference talk, and book chapter exploring the creative ways we might understand and narrate the multispecies world.