2022–2023 (Work in Progress)
Hybrid sensory experiences
Research-based projects created as NEW INC Artist-in-Residence at EY
Created in collaboration with NEW INC x Cognitive Human Enterprise at EY
Led by Domhnaill Hernon, Global Lead at the Cognitive Human Enterprise at EY and Salome Asega, Director of NEW INC
with Danielle McPhatter & Ethan Edwards (EY Lead Creative Technologists)
and Tommy Sharkey & Steven Dalton (EY Creative Technologists)
MetaFrictions is a research collaboration for the NEW INC Artist Residency at EY exploring extended reality technologies (XR/VR/AR). Through an exchange of knowledge, technical experimentation, and public exhibitions, the collaboration examines new epistemologies emerging with the metaverse and the cognitive impact of immersive digital worlds on our embodied experiences in the physical. MetaFrictions both unveils and creates “virtual residues” that persist in the material world through an accretion of implied meaning and function introduced “inside” technologically mediated experiences that cannot be unseen “outside” of them. The project seeks potential within these residues to create new materially liminal encounters in which the physical and virtual are understood as simultaneous rather than separate, and where past events resonate as “ambient frictions” in the present. The project includes a series of hybrid and extended reality artworks that evoke oscillating sensations of memory and immediacy, presence and absence. Notions of residues are considered in both the abstract (metaphorical, invisible, ethereal) and the literal (digital, chemical, biological). References to epigenetic research on environmental influences on gene expression serve as a conceptual scaffold to explore the impact of past events on our present bodies and future humanity.
MetaFrictions is a research collaboration for the NEW INC Artist Residency at EY exploring extended reality technologies (XR/VR/AR). Through an exchange of knowledge, technical experimentation, and public exhibitions, the collaboration examines new epistemologies emerging with the metaverse and the cognitive impact of immersive digital worlds on our embodied experiences in the physical. MetaFrictions both unveils and creates “virtual residues” that persist in the material world through an accretion of implied meaning and function introduced “inside” technologically mediated experiences that cannot be unseen “outside” of them. The project seeks potential within these residues to create new materially liminal encounters in which the physical and virtual are understood as simultaneous rather than separate, and where past events resonate as “ambient frictions” in the present. The project includes a series of hybrid and extended reality artworks that evoke oscillating sensations of memory and immediacy, presence and absence. Notions of residues are considered in both the abstract (metaphorical, invisible, ethereal) and the literal (digital, chemical, biological). References to epigenetic research on environmental influences on gene expression serve as a conceptual scaffold to explore the impact of past events on our present bodies and future humanity.
The 2022 NEW INC Artist-in-Residence at EY is a creative tech collaboration researching and developing new human experiences in the metaverse using virtual technologies led by Salome Asega (Director of NEW INC) and Domhnaill Hernon (Global Lead at the Cognitive Human Enterprise at EY) with EY Creative Technologists Danielle McPhatter and Ethan Edwards. NEW INC is the New Museum’s cultural incubator dedicated to supporting innovation and collaboration for people working at the intersection of art, design, and technology.
Project support provided by NEW INC Artist Residency at EY at the New Museum
