Maple & Myring

Maple and Myring is an ongoing research project that explores the connections between collage, non-fiction histories and AI image generation.

The project aims to understand the underlying relationships between these essentially found materials to create a methodology that explores new and overlapping ways to present narratives by assembling analogue and digital materials.

Research methods use archival materials and a personal visual language to produce composite works utilizing hybrids of analogue and digital materials such as found objects, collage and generative art combined through elements such as, but not limited to, performance, expanded film and exhibition.

In turn, it aims to understand how they can be used to explore new transmedia solutions that could be applied to other narratives and archives, thereby opening possibilities for further projects using the same methodology.

Maple and Myring is an umbrella term for a series of projects that explore these spaces and will involve a series of overlapping experiments and outcomes with the input of an interchangeable set of collaborators and participants. Artist practitioner Gareth Courage has devised the project to have a broader application of the results to modules within the School of Visual Communication, Birmingham City University, with a specific application to teaching the cross-discipline L4 Narrative module, which Gareth leads.

Click below on individual projects for more information or you can follow progress on Instagram here.

Note: The Maple and Myring project is named after the authors of a series of children's books on paranormal phenomena published by Usborne in the early 1980s.