Hello Human
Hello Human, is the first line of code every programmer usually learns to write in HTML, a small act of announcement. Here I am.
Encouraging creative responses using new media art practices that are both technical and personal, exhibiting artist Elaine Hoey will guide you in building your own personal app, a Chrome browser extension, that interrupts prolonged AI chatbot use. A basic introduction to HTML, 3D scanning techniques, and reflective narrative writing, capture, write or record a short message to your future self, a reminder that you have a body, a voice, a life outside ‘the machine’. Your personal app then becomes an interruption, playing back at any moment of AI chatbot overuse. Installed on your personal computer, your face, your own words will appear as a reminder, a functioning artwork you built, periodically reconnecting you back with reality.
No previous artistic or programming experience required. Participants must bring their own PC Laptop/computer (not mac) with Google Chrome Browser and their mobile phone.
Elaine Hoey works mainly creating interactive based installations, appropriating contemporary digital art practices and aesthetics to explore the politics of digital humanity and our evolving relationship with the screen. She describes her process as ‘experimental’ and is interested in creating new forms of art whose language is digitally native though also subject to critique and informed by questions arising from complex social, political and cultural processes.
Her work often addresses and critique’s themes arising from identity, place and the bio-political body. Her virtual reality works commonly include immersing the viewer in performative and often uncomfortable roles within her digitally constructed worlds. She works through a wide variety of mediums such as, virtual reality, AI systems, video, gaming, installation and live performance, including remote cyber performance.
See her artwork Parasocial Alchemy in Solstice summer group exhibition The Future is Open on display from Saturday 20 June - Saturday 29 Aug 2026."
Audience: Those interested in using new media art practices / teens 16+
Image Credit: @Elaine Hoey Parasocial Alchemy detail