Speaker: Livi Wilmore

Respite: an interactive essay

Livi Wilmore

In this interactive essay, Livi Wilmore takes a satirical deep dive into our need for mindless soothing respite from information overload and the tensions we feel between wanting to be informed and wanting to rest. … Read More

Blurring the lines between contemporary art, participatory installation, and public service announcement, Livi Wilmore uses gamified essays, installations, and speculative fiction to explore nostalgia, escapism, and the internet to gain an understanding of the societal impact of information overload and the internet. Livi gives reverence to the World Wide Web by exploring it as a physical location that we visit and have the choice to either consciously or unconsciously navigate around. She also looks at the spatial metaphors and environments of the web as a mirror world—from exploring cyberspace and creating GeoGities to Gen Z’s affiliation with liminal spaces mirroring the IRL death of the highstreet.

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