Free event
Charlotte Roe (UK, 1991)
Entity (2021) World Premiere
A sculptor and digital artist based in Huddersfield, Charlotte Roe’s work connects sense and emotion with the self-eroding online world. She imagines versions of virtual space that you can touch and feel, presenting haptic estimations of screen-time through installations like last year’s Human Touch. She is fascinated by the creative potential of computer coding, and is currently making work with scraped data, generative visuals and Pure Data audio.
An indirect sequel to Human Touch, Roe’s new work Entity attempts to make browsing the internet feel tactile. Roe’s database of Tweets, all starting with the phrase ‘I feel’, is sorted by sentiment and strength, mapping out their emotional categories by sound – with pitch, volume and texture varying depending on the tweet. Presented as an installation in Huddersfield artist collective ame’s DAI Hall gallery, Entity explores whether an existing virtual space, made up of intangible data, can take on a material form embodied within a physically explorable space.
Produced by hcmf//
Created as part of the hcmf// Young Curators’ Programme, funded by the Leeds City Region Business Rates Pool through a bid secured by Kirklees Council
Getting There
Venue: Dai Hall
Address: Victoria Lane, England, HD1 2QF, United Kingdom.