Felicity Hammond: Engine V-3.5

ENGINE-V3.5 is a new installation by artist Felicity Hammond, curated by Rebecca Edwards and Chemist

As a precursor to Felicity Hammond’s V4: Repository' at Stills in Edinburgh later this year, and as an afterward to V3: Model Collapse at The Photographer's gallery in June 2025, ENGINE-V3.5 at Chemist interjects into Hammond’s computational imaging feedback loop as a moment for reflexive re-classification. It explores how optical, material and computational data, collected from the previous three chapters of ‘Variations’, Hammonds PhotoWorks commission, can be funnelled into an imagined configuration - a structure of loading bays, printouts and storage systems - to house data-as-research. Reinterpreting the relationship between prompts and images through the lens of AI and asking what happens when the image, not the prompt, comes first?