Based at Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, UK.
Members of the Human Interfaces Creative Lab include lecturers, practitioners and PhD students from across a wide range of media, art and design subject disciplines.
Exploring the slipperiness of human interfaces.
The disruptions, unreliable narratives, the fabricated memory and histories, the truths, the lies – and how these might shift across cultures, time and art forms.
Communities, individuals, and technologies.
The sense of being human, the fluidity and multiplicity of social and cultural identity, the interfaces between public and private, between agency and disempowerment.
“The research group dialogue centres around questions investigating the multiplicity of identity and what it means to be human. For many this is constructed through narratives, histories, and memories. These structures however are not taken for granted as complete or definitive – often it is the disruptions and slippages, the discomfort and unease, and how identities are renewed and shifted that are most important.
For us, human interfaces are about the reciprocal relationships between communities and individuals, technologies and all species. The interface between us and the viewing screen and the expectations of the viewing public, between language, performance and sound, between power and empowerment, between nature and nurture.
We intend to challenge the boundaries between representation and the ‘real’ world, and the space in-between. To this end our current research explores: What does community mean in a post pandemic world especially the synergies or conflicts of hybridity in terms of the physical and digital spaces? “
Professor Richard Sawdon Smith, Human Interfaces Research Group Lead