September 11, 2014
CHRIS SUGRUE (us)
artist, developer
Chris Sugrue works in the field of interactive installations, audio-visual performances and experimental interfaces. Her works experiment with technology in playful and curious ways and investigate topics such as artificial life, eye-tracking and optical illusions. Sugrue holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design and has taught numerous workshops on visual and creative programming.
DIAS context
Exhibition: Presenting DIAS
Delicate Boundaries, 2007
Interactive installation
Courtesy the artist
The installation imagines, that the worlds inside our digital devices can move into the physical world. Small bugs made of light crawl out of a computer screen onto the human bodies that make contact with them, often surprising their audience as they try to abandon a virtual existence. The magic of the illusion takes shape as the audience lets them explore their bodies, crawling from one person to the next in a strangely intimate way. As digital technologies have become embedded in everyday life, the line between the virtual and real is increasingly blurred. Delicate Boundaries playfully explores our expectations and understanding of interfaces and interactivity.