Gwen Stevenson

Visual artist working with interactive systems and participatory practice

I make interactive visual works where images respond in real-time to human interaction, creating works that shift through participation and feedback.

These works use projection, camera tracking, interactive software and generative processes to construct systems in which images respond in real time to human presence and action.

My practice is concerned with how visual systems behave under interaction, and how meaning is produced through participation rather than observation.

Across the work, I am interested in how agency is experienced within responsive systems, particularly the relationship between action, feedback and consequence. I aim to create situations in which people encounter their own influence inside a system and experience the system as something that also responds to them.

I live and work in the Northern Irish border region, a landscape shaped by ecological change, degraded woodland, ash dieback disease, compromised freshwater systems and the legacy of conflict. This context informs an understanding of systems as interconnected fields in which ecological, technological and political conditions continuously interact.

My practice also extends into participatory and socially engaged contexts, where I explore how shared experience and memory are produced through interactions between people, place, and technology.

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