Jessica Foley
Writer in Residence
August – December 2025
Jessica Foley is a poet and teacher whose multimodal practice draws upon visual and conceptual art, education, and telecommunications engineering research. Her work is informed by conceptual and installation art, as well as experimental practices in art, film-making and writing. Her writing emerges through imaginative call and response, with people and place, through processes of deep listening, slow looking, improvisation and play. Jessica’s work with Difference Engine (2009-2018) exemplifies this ethos of ‘jamming’, as does her work with the Orthogonal Methods Group. Her creative and critical pedagogical work is informed by histories, folklore and epistemologies of education, technology and ecology, by her own everyday life and personal/working relationships and occupations. This slow temporal practice is challenging, but yields powerful experiences and insights, typically generating co-created archives of written, visual and oral history materials (e.g. Engineering Fictions). Jessica teaches and researches Critical and Contextual Studies through the Faculty of Film, Art and Creative Technologies at IADT and the Network Ecologies Working Group at CONNECT.
www.jessicafoleywriting.com
www.engineeringfictions.org
www.strangerfictions.org