Dr Jessica Foley

Jessica is a poet and a lecturer of critical and contextual studies in Art at IADT. With a diverse practice that includes writing, socially-engaged practices, and academic research, Jessica works with acts of poetry as an ancient technology of presence, imagination, communication and critically creative action. In 2016, Jessica earned her PhD at Trinity College Dublin through field-work with CTVR/the Telecommunications Research Centre (2010-2015). Her thesis developed the concept of inreach as a choreographic process of transversality necessary to support reflective/reflexive creative communication within STEM fields. She was an IRC/Research Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University, working with Prof. Rob Kitchin and the Building City Dashboards team, to explore how poetic fiction can be used to engage the academic worlds of networked digital technologies, such as Internet of Things and Smart Cities. A limited edition risograph zine called Data Sonnets was published in 2024, based on this research. She is founder of Engineering Fictions, and co-founder of the Orthogonal Methods Group (with Prof. Linda Doyle/CONNECT), Difference Engine (with Mark Cullen, Gillian Lawler, Wendy Judge) and The Writing Workshop (with Jessamyn Fiore).