As a PhD Student in the Humanities and research creation program at Concordia University, Laura is exploring the possibilities of developing augmented materials and methodologies toward expanded performances.

She is working with various generative material and digital processes in order to produce a mixed reality textile that can be used for performance creation, exploring themes of new materialism and posthumanism from a feminist, queer and decolonial perspective.

In the early stages of this work she has produced textile sculptures through embroidery and smocking techniques which have become the base for crystallization processes with alum sulfate. Experimenting with various Artificial Intelligence programs, such as ComfyUI and Autolume, these forms have been digitally manipulated through different generative processes to explore how physical forms can be transformed and expanded virtually.

This research aims to explore textiles as more than material practices and rather as conceptual frameworks to understand the body as an embodied and embedded texture within physical, virtual and social structures.