Join artist Ambie Drew and theorist Alex Quicho for an afternoon of talks and performance at arebyte Digital Art Centre.
Ambie will present the research and creative process behind her new solo exhibition Soft Bodies, Cold Machines, on view until 2 August 2026. Her presentation offers insight into the themes, thinking, and questions shaping the work.
This will be followed by Alex Quicho’s The Girlstack Performance Lecture, an exploration of the ‘Girl’ as a technological and social construct. Drawing on ideas from Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, Andrea Long Chu’s Females, and Bogna Konior’s writing on the ‘Girl’ as an inhuman, machinic category, the lecture-performance moves between theory and speculation.
Speakers:
Ambie Drew (b. 1996) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Worcester. Her practice interrogates how digital consumerism and artificial intelligence shape the construction of gender and female identity online. Working across moving image, sculptural installation, and text, Ambie adopts a hyperfeminised alter ego to explore the consequences of living in a heavily mediated world where the physical and digital exist in constant flux. Incorporating obsolete technologies, her work reflects on how intimacy, memory, and reality are entangled with internet culture and machine-driven desire.
Alex Quicho is a theorist based in London. Her practice incorporates critical writing, performative lectures, and moving images to develop novel ways of understanding life within technological systems. She is the author of Girl Intelligence (2025, Aksioma) and Small Gods (2021, Zero Books).
Event schedule:
12.00pm - Exhibition opens to public
3.00 pm - Event welcome & Introduction by Pita Arreola, arebyte’s Head of Programmes
3.10 pm - Artist Presentation: Ambie Drew on Soft Bodies, Cold Machines research and process
3.40 pm - The Girlstack Performance Lecture by Alex Quicho
4.10 pm - Q&A with speakers
4.30 pm - Q&A Opens to the Public
5.00 pm - Drinks served at the foyer
6.00pm - Exhibition closes
This event is free and open to the public; advance booking is required to secure your place.
Read more about Soft Bodies, Cold Machines here. The exhibition is free and open to public from Wednesday to Sunday, 12 - 6pm until 2 August 2026.