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Jackson Byrne 

 
BA [Hons] Art

Jackson Byrne is an Irish artist based in Wicklow. He works with a variety of media, combining video, photography, digital game-design and drawing. He explores techniques of combining drawing and video work, as well as using digital environments to create narrative films. He is particularly interested in ideas of reality and looking at the possibilities of the advancements of artificial life and the impact it could have on humanity. He has taken part in IADT group shows such as New Translations (2019) at IMMA, and Propositions (2022) at IADT on campus.

Jackson Byrne, Dear Alison, (I Address You This For If Things Do Not Work Out Properly), 2022, Explores the fusion of artificial life and humanity. The piece looks at how the presence of deception in media can create a questioning of reality.
Jackson Byrne, Dear Alison, (I Address You This For If Things Do Not Work Out Properly), 2022, video, duration 09 minutes 45 seconds.
Jackson Byrne, Our Time Has Come, 2021, video, duration 04 minutes 03 seconds. This work explores the idea of a person slowly being trapped inside a looping simulation of a digital world.
This is Our House, 2021, video, duration 2 minutes 25 seconds. This video looks at the mixing of reality and simulation, using footage of a digital environment alongside posters and imagery that exist in physical reality.
Jackson Byrne, Has Anyone Seen Terry?, 2021, digital video game on monitor with audio, game controller, headset, wood, cloth, string, acrylic paint, paper, rug. Dimensions variable. This piece is an interactive experience featuring a digital video game that viewers can choose to engage with by using the game controller and audio headset. This piece uses sculpture alongside digital environments to explore the collision between reality and simulated life.
Project Description

My project explores concepts of reality and deception, and the boundaries between real life and digital life. I combine physical drawings, sculptural objects and video to explore how people and things might exist both in a ‘real’ space and a digital space. In my work, things from the digital world pass into our ‘real’ world, and real people enter the digital world through technologies such as gaming interfaces. The line between what is real and what is fake becomes more difficult to differentiate. My work also is inspired by the question of ‘will technology eventually replace us’. I’m interested in where technology may go in terms of implants and becoming a part of us. How much does technology need to evolve to allow us to have cyber implants and bionic limbs, or are we possibly already at that stage where we can start replacing larger parts of ourselves with computers?

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