Jennifer Wicks
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Jennifer Wicks is a Glasgow-based interdisciplinary artist, musician and lecturer whose practice spans expanded cinema installation, live audiovisual performance, moving image and sound. Her work investigates the interplay between analogue and digital media, employing obsolete and unstable technologies – such as 16mm film, reel-to-reel tape, and custom light-to-sound systems – to challenge linear narratives. Rooted in experimental listening and compositional practices from *musique concrète*, optical sound, and contemporary experimental music, alongside sampling and cut-up techniques.
She is undertaking a practice-based PhD in sonic arts at the University of Glasgow. Her research examines how expanded cinema and live audiovisual performance can reshape our understanding of memory. She is interested in how technology mediates memory, particularly in an era where algorithms influence what is remembered, excluded, or erased. Her practice engages with the materiality of obsolete and reappropriated media, not as nostalgic artefacts but as temporal structures with their own operational logics.
Alongside her solo practice, she is one half of the post-punk scuzz WOMEN’S HOUR (Wicks and Murray CY). She collaborates with artists, collectives and organisations including Becky Sîk, The New String Collective, Edinburgh Quartet, Marion Ferguson.