The Wigwell Lodge residencies offers an artist the opportunity for concentrated time to further their work in the beautiful Derbyshire countryside.

Felix Loftus is an artist and researcher based in London focused on relationships to the land and commoning practices in their various forms, with special attention given to the way digital and network technologies can contribute to contemporary commons. For the residency, he will be looking into the histories of industrialisation, making and technological resistance in the area while prototyping creative methods for re-using smart-phones using a permacomputing approach. Loftus’ prototyping will focus on building solar-powered, automated, landscape cameras and nature cams.

Waste as Resource takes inspiration from a history of DIY and environmental approaches to technology, imaging and/or infrastructures and interested in experimental creative R&D, including the PhD research undertaken by Marloes de Valk through The Photographers’ Gallery and LSBU's Centre for the Study of the Networked Image.

Felix will be sharing notes, documentation and works-in-progress through Unthinking Photography