Ronnie, formerly known as Sarah, Danaher is an artist using the humour and pressures of her experiences growing up in a large Irish Catholic family, questioning the underlying power at play in the domestic setting and how it fractures when coming into contact with the internet. Predominantly working in video, sculpture and installation, her current interests are the world of post-truth online, the echo-chambers of communities based around a set of beliefs, and the effect on identity when these subjective truths come into conflict.

Based in Leicester, she has exhibited internationally across France, Spain, Russia, and the UK, and recently completed a graduate residency at The Art House in Wakefield.

Radley Cook is a multidisciplinary artist and designer. His work explores bias acquisition in the development of computational algorithmic systems, the nebulous political discourse of social media and our increasing dependence on modern technologies. He uses satire, reappropriation and interactivity to comment on and provoke discussion about how we think about these societal topics.

In 2019 he graduated from UWE Bristol, with a first class degree in Creative Media Design. The course focused on creative digital media production for online, networked and mobile platforms. As part of the programme, he explored the playful use of digital media whilst also challenging the media artistically, technically and intellectually. As a result, he has developed a proficiency in traditional art and design practice, allied with an understanding of current web development processes.

Kate Frances Lingard is our final selected artist of hotel generation 2020.

Kate lives and works in Glasgow, and thinks about what care means in a technologically orientated future.

Borrowing from the communities that form around free/libre and open source software (FLOSS), her project for Hotel Generation will focus upon distributive methods of making.

How can care become imbued into systems and how does knowledge get shared between each node?

Georgia Tucker‘s practice utilises virtual reality and physical installations to raise awareness of current environmental concerns facing our planet. Her work explores the complexity of materiality, environments and ecologies represented in virtual experiences. Transforming the sense that the viewer’s world is both alien and familiar.

She is pushed by the boundaries of new technologies, exploring VR in an installation context – combining the virtual and real worlds. Her work relies on a collaboration with the viewer as they turn from a passive audience to active participant. By providing the viewer a space to navigate, she is offering them a unique, individual experience. This is a reflection of how we navigate things in the real world, both literally and morally.

Sarah talks us through her proposal and practice here…