Aisling Phelan
Multi-Disciplinary Artist
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Her work has been exhibited internationally, including screenings at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and commissions for the BETA Festival. Her degree show, Dual Reality, was shortlisted for the Royal Dublin Society Visual Art Awards and exhibited at 126 Artist-Run Gallery during the Galway International Arts Festival.
Phelan has received support from the Arts Council Ireland, Dublin City Council, and Wicklow County Council, and was awarded the Staff Prize from 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 co-curator of DATA, founder of the Digital Artists Ireland Discord community, and co-producer of BASE Community Arts Space.
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 transhumanism and speculative fiction, 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 work examines the seductive promise of transcendence and enhancement, creating space for reflection on how digital infrastructures shape our understanding of ourselves and others.
Multi-Disciplinary Artist
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Bio
Aisling Phelan is an Irish multidisciplinary artist working across 3D animation, AI, video, sculpture, and live interactive technologies. Her practice explores human-machine interactions, digital doubles, identity, and speculative futures.Her work has been exhibited internationally, including screenings at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and commissions for the BETA Festival. Her degree show, Dual Reality, was shortlisted for the Royal Dublin Society Visual Art Awards and exhibited at 126 Artist-Run Gallery during the Galway International Arts Festival.
Phelan has received support from the Arts Council Ireland, Dublin City Council, and Wicklow County Council, and was awarded the Staff Prize from 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 co-curator of DATA, founder of the Digital Artists Ireland Discord community, and co-producer of BASE Community Arts Space.
Statement
Through 3D animation, AI, video, sculpture, and live interactive technologies, Aisling Phelan 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 transhumanism and speculative fiction, 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 work examines the seductive promise of transcendence and enhancement, creating space for reflection on how digital infrastructures shape our understanding of ourselves and others.