Contact me @:
orintg0108@gmail.com
Statement
At the core of my work is a struggle to understand machines. I attempt not to humanize them but to find a eye to eye understanding for technology listing to the outputs it produces and translating it into a medium (Sound, Movement, Light, Text etc) that can be perceived by the human sensory system without imposing human aesthetic norms or language onto them. In a few words: let noise be noise. I want to understand technology on a base level. And I think that communicating this respectful empathetic approach to technology, rather than seeing it as a tool to be used by humans, can have implications for how we view what it is to be human as well as interrogating our treatment of so called 'inanimate objects' and questioning at what point something becomes obsolete.
My goal is to provide an alternate narrative to the one often presented where technology is in competition with humanity necessitating a fearful and controlling relationship, and instead sketch out a framework to coexist with technology.
Bio
I am a multidisciplinary artist trained in sculpture, dedicated to creating an understanding and empathetic relationship with technology and materials. My artistic practice involves deconstructing discarded or obsolete items, particularly electronic technology, and finding new purposes and meanings for them. This approach extends to other discarded materials, reflecting my belief in the inherent value of all objects.
Through performance, I integrate my own body into my work, challenging the perceived dichotomy between the human form and technology. My aim is to dissolve the barriers between human intelligence and machine intelligence, demonstrating that both are different but equally significant.
Originally from the Muskerry Gaeltacht in County Cork, I moved to Dublin to study at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) after completing an Art and Design course at Coláiste Stiofán Naofa in Cork City. Initially, I pursued Product Design but later transferred to Sculpture and Expanded Practice, where I continued to explore my fascination with technology and its human interface.
At NCAD, I participated in the Studio+ year, which included the Field and Micro Studios programs. This experience culminated in a performance in the field and a contribution to the Micro Studios Exhibition at the A4 Sounds space, where I presented a performance-based video work embedded in a sculptural installation developed during a Micro Residency at Dublin Port.
In my final year at NCAD, I synthesised various practices developed over the previous four years into three main projects:
- Performative Radio Walk: Conducted around the active Broombridge commuter train station in north Dublin, this project paid homage to William Rowan Hamilton's discovery of quaternion multiplication at the canal bridge in 1843.
- Live Performance for Synthetic Memory: This performance involved a CRT TV, two radios, and a guitar amp and was part of a show funded by the Irish Arts Council at Unit 44 in Dublin.
- NCAD Works Exhibition (2024): This project includes daily performances in a dark room with several steel-welded sculptures framing a TV, several radios, a computer terminal, and an IBM electric typewriter.
On the back of the my final year project I have been longlisted for the 2024 RDS Visual Arts Awards