[ISEA2013] Panel: Teresa Dillon – Rogue Troopers: Designing functional and fictional disruptions

Panel Statement

Rogue Troopers: Designing functional and fictional disruptions addresses the question: What role can artists, curators, writers and designers play in crafting subversive uses for existing technologies and imagining alternatives? In bringing together practitioners who are working across the field of critical and contemporary media art, resistance will be discussed in relation to practices of hacking, civic change, mapping, activism and technological appropriation.

  • Teresa Dillon, Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, UK. Teresa Dillon is an artist, educator and curator. Her work critically reflects on human behavior within our contemporary urban and technically mediated societies. Specifically this takes the form of ideas, which focus on adaption, interdependency, ritual, humor and noise. Alongside her art practice, Teresa works as a curator and educator at the Science Gallery, Dublin. She holds a PhD in psychology from The Open University and has published on music and open source technology, creativity, collaboration and hacking. polarproduce.org