Aisling
PHELAN
Aisling Phelan is an Irish multidisciplinary artist working across 3D animation, AI, video, sculpture, and live interactive technologies. Her work explores what it means to be human in an era of rapid technological advancement and pervasive algorithmic influence.
Deeply concerned with the body, particularly the face, she uses digital doubles to question the abstraction, fragmentation, and fluidity of identity in virtual spaces. Her installations often invite viewers to directly interact with her virtual self, implicating them in the dynamics of surveillance, reproduction, and control that underpin digital culture.
Drawing from a transhumanist and speculative fiction perspective, Phelan explores how far we are willing to go in the pursuit of self-optimisation and the potential costs of such advances. Fusing the intimate with the artificial, her practice confronts the seductive promise of transcendence and enhancement, creating space for reflection on the role of current digital infrastructures in shaping how we understand ourselves and others.