Somerset House Studios is a new experimental workspace in the centre of London connecting artists, makers and thinkers with audiences. Somerset House Studios and British Council presents the work of two residents that explore digital arts and culture, Alan Warburton and Libby Heaney.

Alan Warburton

Alan Warburton presents four short computer-generated (CG) films produced between 2012 and 2016. Through his work he investigates what software does and how it both shapes and is shaped by culture. 

• Z (2012) is a voyage through a deserted landscape using back and white “Z-depth” images, a ghostly image format native CG. 
• Spherical Harmonics (2014) explores the fabrication of digital photorealism through the construction and deconstruction of the architecture, objects, bodies and physics in a virtual interior. 
• Psychometrics (2014) a hypnotic journey through a recursive series of conference rooms, reflecting on the contemporary phenomena of TED talks, productivity philosophies and self-help literature.
• Soft Crash (2016) a dense and symbolic rumination on game theory, wealth, power and the crisis of neoliberalism since the global financial crash in 2008.

Libby Heaney

Libby Heaney is an artist, researcher and lecturer with training in quantum physics working at the intersection of art, science and technology. 

• Lady Chatterley’s Tinderbot  is an interactive audiovisual installation comprising conversations between an AI Tinderbot posing as characters from Lady Chatterley’s lover and other Tinder users. Explores love in a post-digital age by bringing together humans and non-humans and pre- and post-digital love machines: the literary novel and Tinder.