IN CONTEXT 5: Another Infrastructure (AI)
Working as part of arts ensemble Drop Table, we will collaborate with the community in Clondalkin through a series of socially engaged arts events exploring how technology shapes everyday life and how we can build greater agency over the data networks we use. Funded by South Dublin County Council.
For In Context Strand 5, Living Rhythms join arts ensemble Drop Table to collaborate with the community in Clondalkin. Working with the Women's Collective, we will co-design a series of workshops and socially engaged events exploring the environmental, ethical, and social impact of commercial technologies that route our data through energy-intensive data centres.
The Drop Table arts ensemble brings together a team of six artists led by artistic producer Shane Finan (he/them) who assembles artworks and projects from interactive contemporary technologies, found objects, and traditional artistic media. Their work is as both artist and creative producer on collaborative projects.
Their practice explores how non-human organisms and technologies are entangled, and for this he builds installations using traditional and digital media, and runs social and community-focussed events. They have managed projects combining art, environment and technology since 2007 and are co-founder of ^, a collective art-space in Manorhamilton that hosts community-facing events and projects.
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Alisha Doody
Alisha Doody (she/her) is a visual artist with a socially engaged practice whose work combines solo and collaborative research methodologies. Through photography, moving image and installation her work explores the role of mentorship and history in relation to identity development specifically within the LGBTQI+ community. She holds an MA in Socially Engaged Art and Further Education (NCAD 2019).
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Dasha Ilina
Dasha Ilina (she/her) is a Russian techno-critical artist based in Paris, France. Through the employment of low-tech and DIY approaches, her work questions the desire to incorporate modern technology into our daily lives by highlighting the implications of actually doing so. Her practice engages the public in order to facilitate a space for the development of critical thought regarding social imperatives for care of oneself and others, privacy in the digital age, and the reflexive contemporary urge to turn to technology for answers.
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Paul O'Neill
Paul O’ Neill (he/him) is an artist and lecturer at the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, University of Galway. His practice and research are concerned with the implications of our collective dependency on networked technologies and infrastructures. Paul holds a PhD in critical media art practice from Dublin City University and is an academic collaborator with the ADAPT Centre for AI-Driven Media Technologies. He is also co-curator of the Dublin Art & Technology Association (DATA) and English editor of Neural Magazine of Critical Digital Culture and Media Arts.
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The project is also supported by the following associates:
Documentation: Cían Flynn (Look Alive)
Cían will document the social events. A photographer and filmmaker from north-west Ireland, Cían has extensive experience documenting arts events and festivals, including regular work with Roscommon Arts Office, The Model Sligo, The Eco Showboat, Body & Soul Festival and Night and Day.
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Food: Amy Bunce (Unwrapped)
Food-based artist, chef and entrepreneur Amy Bunce will provide locally sourced food with low waste as a core part of this project. Amy runs Unwrapped, a packaging free food business, and has an arts practice that emphasises food as a care practice.
Credits
Funders: South Dublin County Council