Leeds Critical Digital Practice Lab launch event, 'Plant Sensing'
Thursday 25th June 2026, 10.30–16.00 at Unit 31, Leeds Kirkgate Market, New York St, Leeds LS2 7HY (part of salt: A THREE Fields exhibition)
'Plant Sensing' was a one-day symposium where artists, researchers, technologists and organisers making and thinking with plants came together to explore questions about nature, memory, and more-than-human connection through bodies and senses.
This symposium was part of Salt, an exhibition of work produced over 2025 by artists Kaajal Modi (UK), Samu Kelisiwe Dube (South Africa) and Deepa Reddy (India) as part of the THREE FIELDS international collaboration about sustainable digital practices, food migrations and land justice. The exhibition is part of Situation Leeds, a grassroots arts festival organised by artists in Leeds for Spring/Summer 2026. With special thanks to Leeds Kirkgate Market.
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The Critical Digital Practice (CDP) Lab is a new creative and critical experimentation space-based at University of Leeds. The lab is a space where we play with accessible technologies and feminist practices in order to develop critical digital methods in response to the polycrisis. Led by Kaajal Modi, Helen Thornham and Joanne Armitage.
THREE FIELDS was an international co-commission between Abandon Normal Devices, Arts Catalyst, Fak’ugesi, Fast Familiar and Unbox. It was funded by the British Council’s International Collaboration Grants and supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
Thursday 25th June 2026, 10.30–16.00 at Unit 31, Leeds Kirkgate Market, New York St, Leeds LS2 7HY (part of salt: A THREE Fields exhibition)
'Plant Sensing' was a one-day symposium where artists, researchers, technologists and organisers making and thinking with plants came together to explore questions about nature, memory, and more-than-human connection through bodies and senses.
This symposium was part of Salt, an exhibition of work produced over 2025 by artists Kaajal Modi (UK), Samu Kelisiwe Dube (South Africa) and Deepa Reddy (India) as part of the THREE FIELDS international collaboration about sustainable digital practices, food migrations and land justice. The exhibition is part of Situation Leeds, a grassroots arts festival organised by artists in Leeds for Spring/Summer 2026. With special thanks to Leeds Kirkgate Market.
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The Critical Digital Practice (CDP) Lab is a new creative and critical experimentation space-based at University of Leeds. The lab is a space where we play with accessible technologies and feminist practices in order to develop critical digital methods in response to the polycrisis. Led by Kaajal Modi, Helen Thornham and Joanne Armitage.
THREE FIELDS was an international co-commission between Abandon Normal Devices, Arts Catalyst, Fak’ugesi, Fast Familiar and Unbox. It was funded by the British Council’s International Collaboration Grants and supported using public funding by Arts Council England.