This moving image work was the culmination of a year-long project as artist-in-residence at the Telfer Gallery, exploring the dynamics of power, energy and gender within media. Circuits of Bad Conscience (2017) combines live action footage with animated digital sequences. My research for this project explored utopian politics and critiques of contemporary conditions within the science fiction genre, with particular focus on the work of female authors such as Ursula K. Le Guin and Marge Piercy. The video itself is based around a science fiction premise that visualises the circulation of affective energy between viewers exploited within a media circuit. This narrative features various scenarios and characters derived from a cross-fertilisation of personal experiences, historical figures and commercial media material. Speculating on how ideological power can become engrained on the body as media-made-flesh.