Erotic Engines looks at the unmentioned force of the adult industry in the development of innovative technologies. Through distinct material explorations, each individual artist translates their own unique conversation on the role of the adult industry and its provided exchanges between the real and the virtual.
Erotic Engines invites users to interact with tangible and virtual elements, interchanging between an immersive VR landscape, AR app, collectable AI sex cards and digitally manipulated perspex prints. Playing on the gimmicky use of porn innovations, the VR and AR environments contrast real world elements with hypersexualised body images to exaggerate the desire for sexual indulgence. Existing within the 'real' space, both the AI sex cards and print work investigate the concept of sex tech through a focus on exploitive manipulation of the human body. The development of both works has led to different incarnations of pin up imagery, one through satirical commentary and the other via its process of creation.
Erotic Engines
Stella Palmer, Joan Shin, Sorcha Delahunty & Zoe Ingerson
Tactile Light re-processes a suite of live performances enacted by a posthuman body given infrared vision, underscored sonically by the bio-electrical signals from living plants. Self-rendering algorithms tease iterative movements of light from this material flow, a liminal image stream emerges via the diffractive movements of post-processing software. And that's when we might begin to consider the echoes of performance beyond the event, lured by the entangled intensities of gesture, data and signal.
Tactile Light
Rewa Wright
OPENING: Tuesday 12 March 2019, 6.00pm - 8.00pm
EXHIBITION: 12 - 23 March 2019
WHERE: AD SPACE - UNSW ART & DESIGN
ADDRESS: EG01, CNR OXFORD ST & GREENS RD, PADDINGTON NSW 2021
HOURS: WED TO FRI 11AM-6PM, SAT 11AM-4PM
AD Space is a student run exhibition space at UNSW Art & Design. Managed by Arc @ UNSW limited in partnership with UNSW Art & Design faculty.
