Aisling Phelan
Multi-Disciplinary Artist
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Recent exhibitions include Codes [] Rituals as part of Interface Cultures Rundgang at Kunstuniversität Linz (2026), Linz FMR Festival for Art in Digital Contexts and Public Spaces (2026), Veiling Identities at NeMe, Cyprus (2026), Goodbye Body at Synthetic Narratives, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA (2025), Foolish Flame at the Ars Electronica Centre, Linz (2025), and Surrogate Bodies, commissioned by BETA Festival, Dublin (2024). Her work has also been exhibited at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), ArtBomb UK, 126 Gallery, and Douglas Hyde Gallery.
Phelan has received support from the Arts Council Ireland, Dublin City Council, and Wicklow County Council and was awarded the Staff Prize from the National College of Art and Design. She holds a BA in Fine Art Media from NCAD and is currently undertaking an MA in Interface Cultures at the University of Art and Design Linz. She is the founder of the Digital Artists Ireland (DAI) Discord community, co-curator of Dublin Art & Technology Association (DATA), and co-producer of BASE Arts Space Dublin.
Within this process of translation, the face becomes both a marker of identity and a site of technological capture. By inviting viewers to encounter, manipulate, and inhabit her digital doubles, Phelan relinquishes agency over her own image, implicating audiences in the dynamics of surveillance, reproduction, and control that underpin digital culture.
Drawing on speculative fiction and critical approaches to emerging technologies, Phelan examines how digital systems mediate the construction and perception of identity. Fusing the intimate with the artificial, her work reflects on how technological representations shape our relationships with ourselves and with the images that come to define us.
Multi-Disciplinary Artist
CV
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Bio
Aisling Phelan is an Irish multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in Linz, Austria. Working across 3D modelling, interactive technologies, AI, video, and sculpture, her practice explores the translation of the self through technological systems. Using digital doubles, she examines how images of the self are constructed, transformed, and experienced within contemporary digital culture.Recent exhibitions include Codes [] Rituals as part of Interface Cultures Rundgang at Kunstuniversität Linz (2026), Linz FMR Festival for Art in Digital Contexts and Public Spaces (2026), Veiling Identities at NeMe, Cyprus (2026), Goodbye Body at Synthetic Narratives, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA (2025), Foolish Flame at the Ars Electronica Centre, Linz (2025), and Surrogate Bodies, commissioned by BETA Festival, Dublin (2024). Her work has also been exhibited at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), ArtBomb UK, 126 Gallery, and Douglas Hyde Gallery.
Phelan has received support from the Arts Council Ireland, Dublin City Council, and Wicklow County Council and was awarded the Staff Prize from the National College of Art and Design. She holds a BA in Fine Art Media from NCAD and is currently undertaking an MA in Interface Cultures at the University of Art and Design Linz. She is the founder of the Digital Artists Ireland (DAI) Discord community, co-curator of Dublin Art & Technology Association (DATA), and co-producer of BASE Arts Space Dublin.
Statement
Phelan’s practice is an investigation into the translation of the self through technological systems. Working across 3D modelling, interactive technologies, AI, video, and sculpture, she uses digital doubles to reconstruct her own image, examining how identity is abstracted, fragmented, and transformed between digital and physical forms.Within this process of translation, the face becomes both a marker of identity and a site of technological capture. By inviting viewers to encounter, manipulate, and inhabit her digital doubles, Phelan relinquishes agency over her own image, implicating audiences in the dynamics of surveillance, reproduction, and control that underpin digital culture.
Drawing on speculative fiction and critical approaches to emerging technologies, Phelan examines how digital systems mediate the construction and perception of identity. Fusing the intimate with the artificial, her work reflects on how technological representations shape our relationships with ourselves and with the images that come to define us.