Space Becomes Screen
This photography, AR and projection work was the result of a visual research laboratory and exhibition to initiate dialogue around what constitutes the ‘photographic’ within emerging digital ecologies and the implications of this for the way we interact with photography as a medium for memory.
Exhibited at: S1 Artspace, Sheffield, 2022
The exhibition comprised of 3D photographic scans that were created in everyday situations using a very quick handheld scanning technique that results in digital fragments or ruins. These are placed in augmented reality within the exhibition space and visible via a framed, handheld screen, alongside hanging 2D projection.Audience members were invited to explore these ‘3D snapshots’ by physically moving around the space whilst holding the screen.
The participatory nature of the exhibition introduced a performative element whereby the audience becomes embodied within hybrid digital/physical space. The bodily interaction of participants with the digital, sculptural fragments brought into focus the intimacy of the interaction with the digital bodies and led in some case to disorientation between the digital and the physical.