Image Credits: Judith Ricketts, Sensing Data: Memory in Place Sensing: Data presents seven years of work by artist Judith Ricketts, exploring how data and the built environment reveal the region’s connections to early global economic histories of the transatlantic slave trade. The exhibition brings together a process of research and making that spans discovery, excavation, and the creation of new artefacts.
The fragments of data and media on display form a way-forward machine, signalling the starting point of Judith Ricketts’ PhD research. In this setting, the machine operates as a systemic tool for imagining future possibilities. Each fragmented dataset acts as a vessel for ideas and perspective, functioning as a creative artefact that drives research, reflection, and new directions. Together, these artefacts become an act of speculative dreaming – drawing on an unseen past, brought into the present, and projected towards a shared future archive.
Presented as part of Black History Month, this exhibition includes work carried out as part of Ricketts’ Phoenix Studio Award 2024, and CHASE-funded PhD research 2024.
About the artist
Jude Ricketts is an award-winning XR Developer, Artist, Senior Lecturer in Games, and a Women in Games Ambassador, and a CHASE Funded PhD candidate.
She works at the intersection of critical art practice, interactive technologies and data-driven narratives for social justice, creating games and immersive experiences using leading-edge technologies with augmented reality, virtual reality, chatbots, moving image and photography to create new forms of inclusive storytelling.
Her work has been published in Hello World Magazine, Fullstack Feminist Toolkit, Digital Democracies, The Royal Pavilion & Museums, Fashion Cities Africa, Black History, and Argus Newspaper.
Public speaking engagements have included: Brighton & Hove Culture Alliance Summit, Black History – Brighton & Hove Council, Beyond Conference and History Hack for Digital Democracies.
Her work has been selected for Sussex Colab IAA at Lighthouse, Brighton Digital Festival, Phoenix Arts Space, Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton Photo Fringe, and Fashion Cities Africa.
W: lovespictures.com
L: linkedin.com/in/judericketts
What to expect
The exhibition is sited in a long windowed corridor at Phoenix, which is accessible via either steps to Phoenix's main entrance or the wheelchair accessible ramp.
Refreshments at the cafe and toilet facilities are available at Phoenix.
Accessibility and inclusion
Wheelchair accessible
Seating available
Free or low cost event
Audience target/s
Everyone
Audience type / suitability
Adults / 18+, Young people 14+
Organiser
Judith Ricketts and Phoenix Art Space