msdm
paula roush
msdm
mobile strategies
of display& mediation
house-studio-gallery
publications
projects
workshops
curatorial
writing
reflections
store
contact
CV link
CONTACT
⌨️ @mobile_strategies
✐ msdm@msdm.org.uk
☯︎ +447711483319
☯︎ +351923194956
msdm
paula roush
msdm
mobile strategies
of display& mediation
house-studio-gallery
publications
projects
workshops
curatorial
writing
reflections
store
contact
CV link
CONTACT
⌨️ @mobile_strategies
✐ msdm@msdm.org.uk
☯︎ +447711483319
☯︎ +351923194956
paula roush is a portuguese artist and researcher working across photography, publishing, installation, and computational processes. Her practice investigates how images are produced, circulated, and transformed within ecological, technological, and archival systems, with particular attention to what resists prediction, stabilization, and representation.
Her work unfolds through msdm (mobile strategies of display & mediation), an ongoing artistic research programme and editorial platform through which she develops speculative, participatory, and site-responsive projects. msdm operates as a mobile framework for thinking with images — as material, relational, and epistemic processes — bringing together publishing, fieldwork, and experimental image-making.
Within this framework, paula develops long-term cycles of work engaging river ecologies, post-industrial landscapes, botanical processes, and artificial intelligence. Her projects often combine situated, tactile protocols — such as cameraless photography and textile printing — with algorithmic and language-based systems. Across these works, images are approached not as representations but as events shaped by contingency, error, and collective authorship.
paula’s recent projects include Torn, Folded, Curled [+], an investigation into archival systems, classification, and practices of care developed through dialogue with institutional collections; ‘paula’ & Work: A Document on Machinic Enslavement in Academic Capitalism [ + ], an AI-driven exploration of technobiography, algorithmic governance, and machinic legibility within academic infrastructures; One Green Eye, the Other Blue — Herbarium of the Anthropocene [+], a multi-layered project combining post-industrial fieldwork, botanical processes, and generative image-making to explore material and algorithmic entanglements; and Liquid Memories [+], a residency-based research project approaching water as an epistemic system, using diffraction, participatory laboratories, and publishing as methods of knowledge production.
Her practice proposes artistic research as a form of situated intelligence — attentive, relational, and accountable to the incalculable dimensions of contemporary life.
