Laurien Ash (Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford), creates work that is concerned with the intersection between human experience and technology. Ash created virtual worlds and narratives for the viewer to explore using familiar tools such as a mouse or a screen. It is through these interactions, the ways in which we control technologies, that Ash attempts to disrupt both our understanding of what we are seeing and the level of control that we have over it. The mouse appears not to work, the video disrupted, drawing the viewer deeper into the digital world.
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