Interface Inagh

We are profoundly saddened by the tragic death of Atija in Clifden yesterday. Loss of life is tragic in every instance. But gender based violence is an epidemic, and stretches into every corner of society. Our hearts are with the victim and her children. Rest in Peace Atija.

It was a real pleasure to host Griff Maloney as part of our ongoing collaboration with Burren College of Art, and our residency commitment to a recent graduate or student of the college.
'My work interrogates the relationship between the perceived world and the digital veil of the electronic world. I capture motion and light in my physical environment before transmuting it into digital abstractions of thought and remembrance. These ancillary memory objects are transformed beyond the electronic devices on which they are captured and their contradictions are made visible.
I utilize techniques of digital transformation and signal degradation mixed with traditional animation and in camera effects. These remixed and reinvested fragments of footage and sound become facsimiles of fading memories and half remembered dreams. By creating tension between natural and electronic forms, my work examines the liminal spaces of our digital age, altering the light and texture of the human eye into digital doppelgängers of color and motion.
This work uses technology as a magic mirror, transmuting natural landscape and luminescence into electronic ghosts. These encounters draw the viewer into an emotional dialogue with the virtual world, presenting questions about the transference of real objects into digital space, the role of perception in the virtual landscape, and our primal relationship to things both real and unreal. The result is an examination of the digital grid that overlays the entire scope of modern life and how it affects our perception and thought.'
Burren College of Art The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Galway County Arts Office