Mac(Kayla) Kelsey



  • Media Arts Teacher
  • Embodiment Researcher
  • Artist In-between



About/CV (Forthcoming)






(Site in process)
     Teaching (Forthcoming)

    01. Post-Secondary:

         TEAC 330: Education and Culture 

         EMAR 160: Computation and Media 

    02. Community:

          Alternate Plains
Researching

01. Kelsey, M. (Under Review). “In touch, out of sight: Intimate pedagogies and vulnerable literacies as counter-surveillant practice in media education” (Under Review). Vulnerabilties, Leonardo Journal.

02. Kelsey, M. (Under Review). “Water as educational media: A hydropedagogy and fluid methodology”. Journal of Embodied Research.

03. Catalano, T., Malgoubri, I., Bockerman, J., Palala-Martinez, H., Kelsey, M., Brandolini, L., & Scherbokav, I. (2024). “Collaborative aesthetic experiences and teacher learners: Arts-practice research in a teacher education classroom.” International Journal of Education and the Arts.
           Art
  
         01. Linger, Longer (2025)
 
         02. Notes on Healing (2024)

         03. Making Sense (2024)

         04. SoftWear (2024)

         05. The Sensing Wall (2023)

        06. BodyCode (2022)







BodyCode (2022)



BodyCode (2022) emerged as I was swimming in the depths of learning about algorithmic society and surveillence culture, and how to makes sense of and move through complex computational systems. I found a desire to reclaim a modicum of agency and autonomy in what my own bodily capacities generated, and how those generations were represented through opaque data structures and spectral hands. 

Using tenents of minimal computing, bespoke programming, and slow media, BodyCode served as a series of explorations in which I imagined, built, and maintained my own computational interfaces using video/motion capture as collaborative agents through p5.js and PoseNet/ML5.js libraries.

This series explored the boundaries (corporeal and computational) in the data my own movements generated and how I programmed their representations. The more my own body moves, the more data is generated, and the more obscured my own form becomes.