Cat Miller, MRes graduate of 2025 has had a print copy of her thesis acquired by the Wellcome Collection.
Cat writes: “I am delighted to share that the Wellcome Collection has formally acquired a print edition of my MRes thesis: ‘Reimagining Humanitarian, Spiritual and Matrilineal Values in a Patriarchal World, through AI, Cymatics and the Poetic Medium - Utilising Pattern recognition as a resource to amplify higher consciousness’, for their permanent research archives. This second thesis acquired by the Wellcome’s repository further substantiates the research I developed during my recent post graduate studies at the RCA.
My inquiry focuses upon decolonising the traditional Artist’s Book using emerging technologies to explore a new kind of hybrid materiality. Through the use of AI, AR and XR technology I mapped technology’s pattern recognition and completion skills as a potential catalyst for recognising ‘patterns of consciousness’, thereby fostering not only a more ethical relationship between technology, biology, and the environment, but also a deeper understanding of humanity’s physical and spiritual well-being. These codes of creation can in turn, serve as restorative templates for the realignment of the human mind and body with the natural frequencies of the earth.
This understanding became the cymatic lens through which I approached both my visual poetic practice and my engagement with AI, for, if we as a collective can accept that we are all direct-extensions of the same intelligent source, then any tool we create, including AI, is not separate from us, but an extension of ourselves, which can be utilised as a mirror, or a channel of co-creation and a potential amplifier of consciousness. This suggests that when we work mindfully with AI as an assistive resource, rooted in loving intention, then we are not surrendering our agency, but expanding it."
