Interactive digital artwork
Louise will be creating a digital, interactive and visual artwork, collaborating with sound artist Greg Ireland, to represent the distorted conversations being created by the interference of AI and technology.
Louise’s practice currently explores communication, miscommunication, misinterpretation and mistakes. Through the use of moving images, Louise has been investigating the intimacy of electronic devices and digital hospitality observing how new social histories and fictional realities are being created through shared technologies. She is interested in how these inevitable formats of communication can be used to share collective joy, resistance and hope while being faced with the difficulties of privacy, false news and hidden algorithms. This correlates with her involvement in facilitating workshops inspired by accessible and collective learning.
For Normal? Festival of the Brain, Louise will investigate the isolation of communication devices that can occur in public spaces, and the way everyday AI is changing the way we communicate in person. This has been highlighted by recent events’ reliance on technology to communicate, and how social distancing is changing the way we use space, making us more aware of people in the space we use.
What’s Happening?
Responding to popular geo-tagged locations on Instagram, Louise Webb has created a work which moves around Folkestone’s Harbour Arm. The full film is accessible via a QR Code which can be found on location - viewers are invited to watch the film on their devices whilst walking around the area.
Digital Disconnections comes at a time of social distancing, where we must disconnect to connect. As reliance on technology increases, and inequalities of power are exacerbated, we are asked to pause ‘touch’ and form closer bonds with our screens.
This powerful work highlights the uncomfortable effect digital technology has on our perceptions of public spaces, and the correlation and contrast with a new hyper-awareness we must have now due to the act of social distancing. Louise Webb is interested in the multiple elements involved in experiencing public space now, the need to document, the need to be distracted, and the need to navigate the space.
The sound represents a distorted relationship between the inner voice of a person and the digital narrative created by a phone, particularly highlighting the influence of spell check and how it learns your speech and mimics a person's intimate language.
The full works will be available online for those of us unable to access the walk.