EP 28: Art 2 HeArt: Katie Hallam, The Beautiful Error, Considering the Future Legacy of Digital Culture.

Today, I have an Art 2 HeArt with Katie Hallam of The Beautiful Error, an artist photographer and digital explorer currently based in Edinburgh. Her practice explores the connections between new media, technologies and geology and considers the future legacy our digital culture will leave on our Earth. Work is created through a combination of media and techniques including photography and sculpture. 

Of her artwork Katie says:

 Technology can create visual problems. It is hard to see, it is difficult to understand the scale of or imagine as a physical infrastructure. It is also problematic to fully understand the environmental issues it can create beyond our personal devices. Technology is hidden in code, buried in tubes, stored in data centers and the ‘cloud’. As a visual artist and photographer, I am exploring ways of how to bring the digital into physical spaces through sculptural objects and site-specific landscapes, visualising how the technological sublime will disguise itself or fossilise within the Earth’s strata millions of years in the future. 

  In this episode we chat about the digital footprint and its  history  that leaves traces and remains suspended in time. What does it look like? Katie’s art speaks up and shows us. We talk about her exploration and use of rocks and how the landscape informs her work.  

This is The Beautiful Error

Visualising  imperfection in digital culture and exploring technology inspired by sculpture. 

 Katie's book recommendation:
Navigating the Art World by Delphian Gallery @delphiangallery
Geology of Media by Jussi Parikka 

You can find out more about Katie, and The Beautiful Error below:
Website : www.thebeautifulerror.com
Instagram: @the_beautiful_error

Katie is a member of @artcanorg @waspsstudios @visual.arts.scotland@societyscottishartists