Chris Sugrue is a highly esteemed experimental artist and programmer that focuses on installing interactive exhibitions. Most of her work explores the relationship between human and machine interfaces and plays with the increasing possibilities of interactions with technology in the physical world. She received her masters of fine art in design and technology from parson's school of design.
Chris Sugrue's works explore the nature of humans, inter-human relationships and societal constructs, as well as the nature of technology and our relationship to it. Her systems create art through programming reactions from human interactions. While some of her pieces like A Cable Plays, have a more blatant metaphoric element, most of her pieces are playful with a much more subtle message. She engages the viewer with the possibilities of our ever-increasing technological world.
I first became interested in Sugrue when I saw her piece Delicate Boundaries, which imagines a world inhabited by physical digital creatures that can interact with their surroundings. The idea was novel, engaging and excites the viewer by the possibility of digital interaction. In the video of exhibition she reveals the computer screens can sense where the viewer touches and also senses where the viewers arm is located so that the "bugs" can travel on the viewer by means of projection. The piece takes elements of our natural world and digitizes them, which breaks down these 'delicate boundaries' of nature versus technology. I believe within the piece she means to construct technology as being 'natural'. The piece imagines the future integration of technology in our natural world.
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