An Uneasy Terrain: Immersive and Speculative installation
Amreen ashraf
Project Description
An Uneasy Terrain contemplates on the “politicization of vision” by exploring contemporary visualizing technologies such as social media filters that use body and facial recognition to map data in real and virtual spaces. Informed by the artist's role as an “active subject”, the artist/maker explores the emotions and uneasiness felt in response to the proliferation of facial recognition and surveillance in everyday technologies. An Uneasy Terrain explores these ideas through the construction of an installation space as a means to engage with bodies through speculation and immersion whereby the audience-participants are materially and virtually present in the projected and captured data.
BIO
Amreen Ashraf is an artist, designer and researcher whose creative projects fall within the intersection of art, design and technology. She holds an undergraduate degree from Boston University and is currently completing her MDES at OCAD University. Amreen is interested in installation design as a potential for building worlds and telling stories spatially. Her work investigates how technologies are transforming the everyday experience, and how this affects the way human bodies move, live and play. Amreen enjoys travelling, reading and expressing herself through virtual performances which can be found on Instagram @haramifiltercompany.