A Dish That Holds a Memory – Free Workshop with Fede Ciotti & Amin Haghpanah
Booking info coming soon
Inspired by Tadhg Charles’ exhibition Ley Lines, this workshop brings analogue and digital narratives into dialogue, guiding each participant to create a personal piece that combines drawing, collage and generative art. By treating technology as a tool for expression and connection, participants are invited to explore personal memory across the physical and virtual world.
The workshop runs as a three-hour, hands-on making session. Participants will move between drawing, cutting, assembling, photographing, digitising, printing and reworking their pieces, allowing ideas to evolve through an open, iterative process. Facilitators will be present throughout to support both analogue making and the use of free, accessible AI tools.
Each participant will respond to the shared theme:
A dish that holds a memory. A food, flavour, or ingredient connected to a moment, a person, or a place. How does this taste express something about who you are?
As the workshop progresses, completed works will be documented and curated into a shared online gallery. Together, these pieces will form a collective archive of remembered dishes and personal narratives. Participants will take home their physical artwork and be able to revisit the digital gallery after the event.
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Federica Ciotti is a London-based artist and facilitator working with drawing across studio research
and collaborative practice.
Her studio work explores drawing as a time-based, performative process extending into sound,
computation, and interactive systems. Recent projects have been developed within artistic
research contexts and shared through live presentation, performance, and publication,
supported by an Arts Council England DYCP award.
She also works collaboratively with communities and institutions using visual facilitation and
participatory methods, with clients including Imperial College London, Southbank Centre, the
Wellcome Trust, and the British Council.
Federica holds an MA in Computational Arts (Goldsmiths) and an MA in Semiotics (University of
Bologna).
https://www.instagram.com/_fedeciotti_/
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Amin Haghpanah is a creative technologist and computational artist.
His work explores human-AI interaction and the tension between continuous and discrete systems. Using mediums such as interactive installation, audiovisual performance, and extended reality (XR), he creates tools and environments that bridge technical precision with poetic expression.
Amin’s practice combines experimentation, digital aesthetics, and embodied interaction to challenge how we perceive and engage with technology.
