Gwen Stevenson

Visual artist working with interactive systems, immersive technologies and participation.

My practice explores relationships between people, place and responsive systems through interactive digital media, projection, immersive technologies and creative participation. I create works in which images and environments respond to human presence and action, using interaction to explore ideas of memory, consequence, environmental change and cultural heritage.

I live and work in the Irish border region, a landscape shaped by ecological change, degraded woodland, ash dieback disease, compromised freshwater systems and the legacy of conflict. These conditions inform my interest in interconnected systems and in the ways environmental, technological, cultural and political forces shape the places we inhabit.

Recent works have explored material history, environmental change, memory and loss. Brick by Brick considers how historic buildings are seen, preserved and remembered through an interactive projection responding to visitors’ movement. Generative Decay explores changing freshwater environments, while Kindred Ash considers ash dieback, loss and renewal through an immersive digital environment. Memorial/UnMemorial explores memory and the legacy of conflict through a year-long digital memorial that recorded the names and ages of people killed during the Troubles on the anniversary of their deaths.

My practice also extends into participatory and socially engaged contexts, where interaction becomes a way of exploring how individual actions connect to wider systems and how shared experience and memory are shaped through relationships between people, place and technology.