Artist’s Talk with Harriet Davey

We cordially invite you to a discussion on October 13 at 6:00 p.m. with Harriet Davey (multimedia artist, GBR/DEU)!

The events are taking place on the occasion of Ada Lovelace Day 2025 as part of OUT OF CONTROL.

In English.

Through her exploration of gender-nonconforming virtual avatars, Harriet Davey restores and reclaims bodies that have been suppressed by a male-dominated gaming industry. Obsessed with the question of what it means to be fluid and human in a digital world, she examines and questions the ugly and the beautiful, the maximum and the minimum, online and offline life. Her work includes pre-rendered short films and animations, still images, and most recently, real-time digital performances using motion capture and interactive games in which the audience can participate.

Limited number of participants. To register, email: office@esc.mur.at.

esc medien kunst labor

The central task of esc is the production of art. In this context the main focus is on the precise observation and seismographic recording of artistic processes that examine and deal with socio-political developments (information- and biotechnologies, socio-economic systems) and new technologies (hardware and software).

The artistic activities of the esc media art laboratory derive from the notion that art is understood as subsystem of social and societal reality; the media-specific approach is based on the designation of this reality through “new” culture technologies “new media”.