Textile; Video Installation;
dataShroud is a video and textile installation examining the accumulation of personal data as it relates to one's sense of self within and beyond the digital world. Personal data is routinely collected and monetized by third parties, and renders reductive portraits used to define us as consumers. dataShroud resists the notion that digital data can effectively portray our multitudes and nuances.
Textiles; Machine Learning; Video;
Pile Recompiler is a project about junk, its value, and the perceived lack thereof. It is a series of textiles made by deconstructing existing textiles and reassembling them according to procedurally generated images, which are themselves generated from the collection of discarded actual latch hook rugs prior to deconstruction, and supplanted with images from the Internet. Pile Rcompiler explores the inherent abstractions that occur when using machine learning is employed to create new data, images, and narratives.
New Media; Video Installation;
No New Notifications is an interactive video installation designed to evoke the meditative sensation of laying on a beach watching waves crash on the shore. Visitors are invited to lay on a towel underneath a parasol and interact with a computer program that transforms recorded social media feeds and notification streams into dreamy wave-like visuals. Field recordings of the ocean are coupled with sporadic musings of interpersonal connection online. Each click of the mouse brings new tides of narrative and visual information intended to slip through the users fingertips like grains of sand.
New Media; Video Installation;
No New Notifications is an interactive video installation designed to evoke the meditative sensation of laying on a beach watching waves crash on the shore. Visitors are invited to lay on a towel underneath a parasol and interact with a computer program that transforms recorded social media feeds and notification streams into dreamy wave-like visuals. Field recordings of the ocean are coupled with sporadic musings of interpersonal connection online. Each click of the mouse brings new tides of narrative and visual information intended to slip through the users fingertips like grains of sand.
Sound; Installation; New Media; Arduino
Telepresence is a physical and web based installation on a bed. Upon contact with the mattress, visitors trip a sensor that initiates audio playback of dreamlike narratives through the pillow. The audio was sourced while the artist improvisationally browsed the Internet. While exhibited the installation live streams at katydresner.com/telepresence enabling visitors to simultaneously dream in bed and online. Telepresence has been installed in Ann Arbor MI, New York, & Seoul and was adapted for a browser based gallery in 2017.
New Media; Sound Installation; Found Objects;
Comment Hidden (Community Violation) is an interactive audio installation. Visitors are encouraged to sort through a heap of discarded plushies that have been gutted, turned inside-out, and re-stuffed with squeezable sound modules. During this experience users hear a years worth of archived troll comments read by various MacOS system voices, that when stripped of their original context tell a story of loneliness, frustration, and ultimately humanity -- an attribute seldom ascribed to online trolls.
New Media; Sound Installation; Found Objects;
Comment Hidden (Community Violation) is an interactive audio installation. Visitors are encouraged to sort through a heap of discarded plushies that have been gutted, turned inside-out, and re-stuffed with squeezable sound modules. During this experience users hear a years worth of archived troll comments read by various MacOS system voices, that when stripped of their original context tell a story of loneliness, frustration, and ultimately humanity -- an attribute seldom ascribed to online trolls.
Textiles; Video Installation;
tabulaRasa is a two-sided video installation on a translucent handwoven tapestry. The dialogue between the physical form and the video content change in relation to space. From one vantage point a video containing one day's worth of the artist's cellphone activity is legible and in focus, however the figure is obscured. From the opposite side the human form is illuminated yet the content is abstracted into color and light. Are we projections of the media we consume or are we enlightened by the media we create?
New Media; Video Art; Arduino;
Subject: (No Subject) 2013 is a video installation at desk that creates the illusion of an invisible typist. The omniscient typist begins writing and editing an email in real time when the desk is approached.
New Media; Video Art; Arduino;
Subject: (No Subject) 2013 is a video installation at desk that creates the illusion of an invisible typist. The omniscient typist begins writing and editing an email in real time when the desk is approached.
Textiles; Machine Learning; Video;
Pile Recompiler is a project about junk, its value, and the perceived lack thereof. It is a series of textiles made by deconstructing existing textiles and reassembling them according to procedurally generated images, which are themselves generated from the collection of discarded actual latch hook rugs prior to deconstruction, and supplanted with images from the Internet. Pile Rcompiler explores the inherent abstractions that occur when using machine learning is employed to create new data, images, and narratives.
New Media; Video Installation;
No New Notifications is an interactive video installation designed to evoke the meditative sensation of laying on a beach watching waves crash on the shore. Visitors are invited to lay on a towel underneath a parasol and interact with a computer program that transforms recorded social media feeds and notification streams into dreamy wave-like visuals. Field recordings of the ocean are coupled with sporadic musings of interpersonal connection online. Each click of the mouse brings new tides of narrative and visual information intended to slip through the users fingertips like grains of sand.
Sound; Installation; New Media; Arduino
Telepresence is a physical and web based installation on a bed. Upon contact with the mattress, visitors trip a sensor that initiates audio playback of dreamlike narratives through the pillow. The audio was sourced while the artist improvisationally browsed the Internet. While exhibited the installation live streams at katydresner.com/telepresence enabling visitors to simultaneously dream in bed and online. Telepresence has been installed in Ann Arbor MI, New York, & Seoul and was adapted for a browser based gallery in 2017.
New Media; Video Installation;
Comment Hidden (Community Violation) is an interactive audio installation. Visitors are encouraged to sort through a heap of discarded plushies that have been gutted, turned inside-out, and re-stuffed with squeezable sound modules. During this experience users hear a years worth of archived troll comments read by various MacOS system voices, that when stripped of their original context tell a story of loneliness, frustration, and ultimately humanity -- an attribute seldom ascribed to online trolls.
Textiles; Video Installation;
tabulaRasa is a two-sided video installation on a translucent handwoven tapestry. The dialogue between the physical form and the video content change in relation to space. From one vantage point a video containing one day's worth of the artist's cellphone activity is legible and in focus, however the figure is obscured. From the opposite side the human form is illuminated yet the content is abstracted into color and light. Are we projections of the media we consume or are we enlightened by the media we create?
New Media; Video Art; Storytelling; Arduino;
Subject: (No Subject) 2013 is a video installation at desk that creates the illusion of an invisible typist. The omniscient typist begins writing and editing an email in real time when the desk is approached.
