Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 19 minutes ago
Ghost Feed is a powerful digital simulation by Irish artist john gerrard, depicting a white-cheeked spider monkey gazing at a smartphone as a virtual forest burns around it. Drawing on real wildfire footage, the work explores the relationship between technology, nature, and how we witness environmental collapse. Created entirely from computer code, this slowly shifting scene loops in real time, prompting reflection on how digital media shapes our understanding of ecological crisis. With its eerie stillness and haunting beauty, Ghost Feed invites us to consider our role as viewers—and our responsibility to act in a rapidly changing world.
ABOUT CREATIVE FOLKESTONE
Creative Folkestone is a visionary arts charity and placemaking organisation dedicated to making Folkestone a great place to live, work, play, study and visit. Creative Folkestone believes in the power of art and creativity to encourage positive social change and should be open and accessible to all. Since 2002, Creative Folkestone have been transforming Folkestone through several key projects including Folkestone Artworks, Folkestone Book Festival, Creative Quarter, Folkestone Triennial and Quarterhouse. Through all these projects we enable people to get creative. In 2021, Creative Folkestone also became custodians of Prospect Cottage, the former home of Derek Jarman, following a successful campaign to save the property for the nation in partnership with Art Fund and Tate.
Film by Oliver Parkin
oliverparkin.com
instagram.com/oliver_filmmaker
Ghost Feed is a powerful digital simulation by Irish artist john gerrard, depicting a white-cheeked spider monkey gazing at a smartphone as a virtual forest burns around it. Drawing on real wildfire footage, the work explores the relationship between technology, nature, and how we witness environmental collapse. Created entirely from computer code, this slowly shifting scene loops in real time, prompting reflection on how digital media shapes our understanding of ecological crisis. With its eerie stillness and haunting beauty, Ghost Feed invites us to consider our role as viewers—and our responsibility to act in a rapidly changing world.
ABOUT CREATIVE FOLKESTONE
Creative Folkestone is a visionary arts charity and placemaking organisation dedicated to making Folkestone a great place to live, work, play, study and visit. Creative Folkestone believes in the power of art and creativity to encourage positive social change and should be open and accessible to all. Since 2002, Creative Folkestone have been transforming Folkestone through several key projects including Folkestone Artworks, Folkestone Book Festival, Creative Quarter, Folkestone Triennial and Quarterhouse. Through all these projects we enable people to get creative. In 2021, Creative Folkestone also became custodians of Prospect Cottage, the former home of Derek Jarman, following a successful campaign to save the property for the nation in partnership with Art Fund and Tate.
Film by Oliver Parkin
oliverparkin.com
instagram.com/oliver_filmmaker
