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Jimi DePriest

sessional lecturerat University of Western Australia
Focus area: Anthropology

Jimi DePriest (b. 1997) is an emerging mixed media bio/techno artist and cultural anthropologist currently living and working on unceeded Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar, always will be. Jimi’s creative practice is influenced by their research interests in composing Marxist and anti-imperialist analyses of automation and weapons technologies. The intersection of technoscience  and political critique which defines Jimi’s arts practice has enabled them to develop practical experience across critical theory,  wet lab media, robotics, electronics, digital media, and film. They seek to continue expanding their analytical and technical capacities to produce increasingly complex and transgressive bio/techno media installations while broadening the conceptual scope of their work to touch more explicitly on themes of  cyber-feminism and psychoanalysis.