Jennet Thomas

Dr. Jennet Thomas is a Senior Lecturer in Time-Based Media and Performance at Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Arts, part of the University of the Arts London. She is an interdisciplinary artist and educator known for blending experimental film, performance, and installation art to interrogate the intersections of fantasy, ideology, and the everyday.

Her research investigates:

• Ecological collapse and its psychological implications
• Neoliberal technoculture and bio-tech surveillance
• Digital-physical hybrid aesthetics
• Speculative fiction and absurdist narrative structures
• Critical theory through artistic practice

Key professional activities include:

• Co-founding the Exploding Cinema Collective (1990s) that shaped London's experimental art scene
• 2024 premiere of IT IS WANTING multimedia performance at Matt's Gallery
• 2022 Whitstable Biennale commission The Great Curdling
• 2018 solo exhibition Animal Condensed>Animal Expanded at Tintype Gallery
• 2015 publication of experimental fiction The Unspeakable Freedom Device by Book Works

She employs DIY methodologies and collaborative practices to explore contemporary anxieties through surreal, genre-defying works that combine elements of:

• Science fiction
• Musical theatre
• Political satire
• Philosophical inquiry