Looking Outwards 10: Delicate Boundaries

I looked at the work of Chris Sugrue, who is an artist and programmer focused on developing interactive installations, audio-visual performances, and experimental interfaces. A graduate of Parsons School of Design, her work plays with technology through investigating topics such as artificial life, eye-tracking and optical illusions.

I was intrigued by Sugrue’s project, “Delicate Boundaries,” which is an interactive installation that serves as a representation of how our “digital world” (i.e. smartphones, tablets, and laptops) creeps into our physical world (our bodies). Sugrue created small bugs made of light that crawl onto users’ bodies when they interact with the installation, leading to an interesting effect in which people attempt to swat away bugs that only exist virtually. This might also be interpreted as people trying to separate their physical world from their digital one.

For “Delicate Boundaries,” Segrue received an honorary mention from Vida Art and Artificial Life Awards and first prize from Share Festival.

Delicate Boundaries from csugrue on Vimeo.