Dublin School of Creative Arts | Intangible Interconnections, 2020

This year’s exhibition is different. As graduates, we have had to adapt to new and challenging circumstances. Moving to an online environment, we had to think of alternate ways to make our Graduate Exhibition come to life. In its translation into a digital space, the very real and tactile nature of the work we produce is obscured. In our daily lives, there is a sense of human and material touch which is equally obscured. Working from home, graduates are in a new environment. Their creative output extends into their domestic lives as their studies come to a close. It is the parallel between the materiality of our work and the absence of the sense touch that frames this year’s Graduate Exhibition.

This website presents the work of 102 graduating students from the TU Dublin School of Creative Arts, School of Mechanical and Design Engineering and School of Media. The exhibition represents the culmination of years of full-time study and gives our students the opportunity to showcase the results of their imagination, hard work, and creative skills.

Identity by Joana Ferreira, Hugh Kavanagh, Eva Martin, Ben Nagle.

TU Dublin School of Creative Arts
TU Dublin School of Mechanical and Design Engineering
TU Dublin School of Media

Visual Art (Sherkin Island)

Sinead McCormick
Intangible Interconnections, 2020

Intangible interconnections explores systems of communication often unseen or obscured from view. This multi-faceted and site-specific installation responded to the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdown and isolation.

The work incorporated two Arbutus unedo plants in Barcelona which connected with an Arbutus on Sherkin Island. An arduino retrieved the data from the plants via sensors, electrodes and transmitters. Sonifications of the shifts in electrical current were entwined with spoken word recordings from Sherkin, detailing the plants' unusual geographical history.

The species is one of a select group of plants native to Ireland but not to Britain, known as the Lusitanian flora, owing to the fact that their nearest relatives are to be found on the Iberian Peninsula.
The plant “highway” to Europe has long vanished, swamped by rising seas, with the land beyond the present southern shores of Ireland disappearing beneath the waves almost 9,000 years ago.

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