Dierdre Pearce | HDR Season One Exhibition One

Dierdre Pearce | HDR Season One Exhibition One
Dierdre Pearce, 'a line of best fit' 2020, mixed media, dimensions variable. Photo: Brenton McGeachie

The starting point for this research is the growth of global human-machine networks and the significance humans place on participation in such networks. This practice-led project investigates how negative space might be used as an analogy for non-machine interactions which are data-silent yet influence global networks in which humans and machines operate. A term used in visual arts to describe the space around or between elements in a composition, negative space can be as visually engaging and informative as that of the subject of the composition. An analogy of negative space was used to describe the partial nature of digital records of human experience, to establish the conditions in which the experience of such negative space can be studied, and to develop approaches which attempt to reconcile the experience of both global human-machine networks and their negative space. These experiments took place through a series of site-responsive installations assembled from everyday materials. Different approaches to describing personal experience were tested during the research, including unusual forms of data visualisation, reinventions of data-collection processes, and developing digital and physical ‘windows’ through which audiences could engage with the work. Finally, these approaches were applied to explore the implications of lived experience of the COVID-19 pandemic on the human-machine networks of the cognisphere.

Dierdre Pearce is completing a Masters of Philosophy at ANU School of Art & Design and has been a teacher and researcher at universities in Australia, the United States and Britain.
 

This exhibition is free and open to the public during Gallery hours; Tuesday to Friday 10.30AM – 3.00PM
All attendees must sign-in using Check-In Canberra App

 

Date & time

Fri 26 Mar 2021, 10.30am – Thu 08 Apr 2021, 3pm

Location

ANU School of Art & Design Gallery, Cnr Ellery Cres & Liversidge St, Acton ACT 2601

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