Serena Devereux
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Medium: Digital media & computational art, interactive and networked systems, generative visuals and synthetic artefacts, video, code-based processes and digital ecology exploration
Overview: Serena Ply is a multidisciplinary visual and digital artist whose practice emerges at the intersection of digital ecosystems, networked spaces, and media ecology. Their work engages with synthetic media, computational processes and digital environments, exploring how technology shapes perception, identity and relational frameworks between humans and systems. Serena’s practice balances critical inquiry with experimental media, situating generative and networked forms within broader cultural narratives.
Notable Commissions/Projects: FLUX collaboration, The Complex ‘Synthetic Artefacts’ exhibition.
About the work: Cybernetic Ecologies is a data driven, hybrid installation, utilising real-time local weather data, feedback loops and interactive technologies in order to recontextualise posthumanist ideologies through a cybernetic lens within the digital era. Primarily this line of inquiry is concerned with embodiment and the hybridisation or dissolution of otherness dividing the digital, the self and the environment, by means of understanding surfaces, specifically our landscapes, as informational patterns and positioning the skin as a membrane where data resides.
In a rigorous exploration of rhizomatic networks, this work explores the fluidity and interconnectedness existing between human and non-human systems, drawing parallels between data infrastructures and invasive plant species; contextualising the relationship between them and their surrounding environments as a cybernetic system in itself. Developing upon this speculative approach in reconciling cybernetics and posthumanism, Cybernetic Ecologies examines the landscape as a prosthesis of memory, extending both human and machine consciousness to become embedded within the natural environment, facilitating the emergence of one larger ecosystem, a networked reality produced by ubiquitous data flows.
