An Electronic Monologue (iPod video installation)

(2007) iPod video installation
created by Clare Shanahan and Brian Sherry

Among the fine-art graduates at IADT, several individuals stood out. It took nerve to invest your years of study in the tiny screen of a video iPod, but Clare Shanahan did so, convincingly, with a variation on HAL, the dysfunctional computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey
Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times

By giving a voice to a popular high street product, We have enabled a commodity to give its views and fears derived from the nature of its own commercialisation.This electronic device is aware of its replaceable nature, which gives rise to neurosis about its figure, worth and acceptance. A little machine with real emotional isues. It emerged that this persona was subject to the same social pressures in society as everyone else. This asks us to reflect on the trends and pressures in society that have helped to create today's image obsessed, throw away culture.


Video Installation Shots

Computer Generated Video Installation Preview

Video Only from Video Installation, played on iPod

age/sex/location (interactive media installation)

(2007) interactive media installation
created by Clare Shanahan and Brian Sherry

There has been a lot of debate around the notion of cyberspace as a community. The term community itself is now conceptualized not in terms of physical proximity but in terms of social networks. Chatrooms and other virtual meeting points are vast becoming the new singles bar of today. We immerse ourselves in these alternative spaces to escape problems, issues or the shortcomings within our physical lives.

This is an interactive art piece that allows you to walk through the materialised chatroom. Other people are represented with a ‘smiley’ for a face, this is how emotion is represented in text in cyberspace. This piece aims to illustrate the vast amount of communication the internet provides, but simultaneously portraying how flat the whole process is. We spend more time interfacing with each other via computer screens than actually looking into the face of our fellow human beings.

By creating an interactive simulation that parodies the real world, we have to examine the pointlessness of immersing oneself in a fantasy world. Can walking around a virtual world populated by strangers be more or less fulfilling than interacting with people in a real world?





window (video)

(2006)
created by Clare Shanahan and Brian Sherry

Alienation in a home, caused by a lack of communication, takes its toll on domestic life. Shown through a grid-like window frame, the couples decline and separation imitates the opening to the Brady Bunch, and the "ideal" family’s removal from each other. Looking at this domestic divergence, we see how distant this couple have become, and how the tension and consequences of their division spill over onto the physical space they share.






channel 2 (video)

(2006)
created by Clare Shanahan and Brian Sherry

Ironically, television is regarded as a communication tool, yet here we look at is as the catalyst for the breakdown in communication within a marriage. The screen offers images of a more colourful and exciting life than the images hanging on the wall, and while both husband and wife are keenly aware of the state of their relationship, the television offers a wall for them to hide behind.





untitled (photography)

(2005)


family portrait (photography)

(2006)

Piano Abstract (photography)

(2005)


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