HERE WE ARE
Interaction // Light Installation 2018‘Here We Are’ explores the tensions between humanity and technology, and the intrinsic desire to use the hand as a tool of communication. Cave paintings, which have endured for thousands of years, illuminate the temporal nature of contemporary communication. Through discourse, humanity has transitioned into a society that communicates predominantly through a digital lens.
This outcome is a collaboration between Grace Arnott and Samantha Kitchener for the Royal College of Art Grad Show 2018. The work features an interactive table that invites audiences to experience technology as nothing technological. By integrating analogue and digital mediums, 'Here We Are' playfully reveals the fundamental and systematic structures that dominate contemporary society. This project underscores the contrast between enduring, tactile forms of communication and the ephemeral nature of digital interaction.
200cm x 150 cm. Wood. Perspex, Sand, Light Projection and Ipad.