About

Ellen Gilbert is a multidisciplinary artist, and researcher whose work is rooted in cyberpsychology and explores the entanglements between technology, humanity, and digital well-being. Through directed and self-recorded still and moving image performance, she constructs altered realities from real locations, weaving fictional narratives that reveal how technology shapes our perceptions, behaviours, and sense of self.

Her works take form as cinematic essays, installations, and performances that play with time, space, and narrative, while critically addressing themes of autonomy, surveillance, and the preservation of human potential in an age of data and automation. By unsettling our perception of reality, Gilbert’s practice offers a mirror to the paradoxes of contemporary existence, how we feel, live, and communicate in a world increasingly mediated by screens.

Her research is informed by both embodied and critical inquiry, spanning experiences such as living with off-grid woodland communities, attending conferences on the ethics of technology, and completing an eight-month Consciously Digital training programme. Drawing from diverse perspectives, her practice bridges art, psychology, and digital culture to question how we might reclaim our attention, creativity, and collective well-being in a tech-dominated world.

Current

The Digital Wellness Centre | NEXTNATURE Museum | https://nextnature.org/en/museum/digital-wellness-center

Selected recent exhibtions

‘Symbiotic Epidermis' Exhibition - Grey Cube Projects | London, Marble Arch | 27th June - 19th of July 2025

April 2025 - ‘Between a frame and a soft place’ Group Exhibtion, Film Screening | Millenium film workshop | New York

Mar 2025 - ‘Together at the Seams’ Group Exhibtion, The Art Academy, London

Oct 2024 - ‘Technological Disruptions’ Group Exhibtion, University of Twente, Netherlands

July 2024 - MFA Fine Art Degree Show | Goldsmiths, University of London

May 2024 - ‘HYPHA FIXED - Phantom Arena’, Performance, InVitro - Gossamer Fog, London

Oct 2022 - ‘Hypha Studios Presents’ 56 Conduit Street, Group Exhibtion, Mayfair - London

Sep 2022 - ‘Present Tense’, Deptford X Festival, Group exhibtion

June 2022 - ‘It might be about care or it might be about digging...’, Lumen Crypt Gallery, Group Exhibtion, London

March 2022 - Futures_After, Group show, Hypha Studios, Catford - London

Sep 2021 - On Hold, Group Exhibtion, Deptford - London

Talks

Jan 2025 - Panelist on ‘Creativity & Generative AI: Philosophical Perspectives on Creative Uses of Artificial Intelligence’, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands: https://www.ozsw.nl/activity/creativity-generative-ai-philosophical-perspectives-on-creative-uses-of-artificial-intelligence-2/

Oct 2024 Panelist for ‘Art as Epistemological Practise: ‘Rethinking Ethics - Reimaging Techngology’ International Conference, Esdit - University of Twente, Netherlands: https://www.esdit.nl/event/esdit-4tu-ethics-conference-rethinking-ethics-reimagining-technology/

Feb 2022 - Artist talk: Ellen Gilbert, Futures_After at Hypha Studios

Dec 2022 - ‘I was just wondering with tom’ podcast: S3 Ep 10: Artist & Researcher Ellen Gilbert

Workshops

Feb 2025 - More than Human World: Exploring our connection to the natural world in a digital age

Oct 2024 - Techgosis Collective Retreat, 3 day Mind Body Spirit offline residency - Belgium, Brussles

Sep 2024 - Techgnosis Collective Launch, Manifesto Workshop and Discussion on AI, Art and Spirituality

May 2022 - Culture Talk: ‘Rethinking Technology in an Off-Grid Community’ Tinker’s Bubble community interview and discussion.

March 2022 - ‘How has the digital economy changed how artists work and navigate together in the artworld?’ Screening and workshop discussion, hosted with Hypha Studios at Futures_After.

Fellowships

Sep 2024-2025 - Goldsmiths University of London: MFA Fine Art Junior Fellow for Goldsmiths Drawing Centre for Humans and Machines

Education