Anneleen Swillen is a researcher and lecturer at PXL-MAD and Hasselt University, Belgium, exploring “(e)merging bodies” in a post-digital culture. Her research—developed through artistic projects, writing, curation, editing, and other formats—addresses themes, questions, and methods around, and with, more-than-human entanglements, intra-actions (Barad) between technologies and bodies, and co-creation with non-human actors. She investigates alternative approaches to technology—such as soft (Tripaldi), slow (Wakkary), and technology as an ecology (Bridle)—and examines the significance of posthumanist perspectives in artistic practice.
Her background in Object & Jewellery Design and Curatorial Studies formed the foundation for her PhD: an artistic research on jewellery and presentation through performative installations, active archives, and experimental publications (2015–2019, PXL-MAD and UHasselt).
In 2020, as part of her postdoctoral research (2020–2025, PXL-MAD and UHasselt), she co-founded Artificial Intelligems together with composer and digital artist Greg Scheirlinckx. Through participatory projects involving more than 100 participants and a custom AI model, they co-create Ornamutations and Ornamisms. By creating space for diverse forms of knowing (embodied, relational, artistic…) alongside transdisciplinary dialogue, artistic-philosophical experimentation, and critical reflection, they aim to broaden perspectives on themes such as human-centered design, materiality, and authorship. Through this work, she explores jewellery as sites of more-than-human encounters, (re)imagination, entangled agency, and co-learning.
In addition to developing her own research trajectory and supervising PhD candidates, she coordinates a transversal research theme on Emerging Technologies within MAD Research. As a lecturer at PXL-MAD, she is primarily involved with the Jewellery Design and Goldsmithing program, while also working with students from Fine Arts and Graphic Design.
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