Silvia Binda | #Woman Critical Interface

#Woman Critical Interface

2021 - 2023

Electronic assemblage, critical interface

#Woman Critical Interface is an interactive digital, electronic and physical interface based on real-time data input, that aims to critically reflect on the relationship between image, language and hypertext from a gender perspective. The interface functions as a critical tool, which subverts the current instantaneous, and normative representation of "woman" on social media. Through this artwork, the way we generate and consume content on social media on a daily basis is questioned.

The work is a result of a practice-based artistic research on the creation of a feminist electronic and digital interface that should critically reflect on the new narratives articulated around the term “woman” in the virtual space of the Instagram social network.

The interface operates as a digital ecosystem that feeds on data extracted from real-time social media posts. The user experiences the original content reinterpreted in new formats through various acoustic and visual outputs of the interface. Additionally, the system reacts in real time to changes produced both in the physical and digital environment, which is reflected in the behaviour of the interface.

The work's main components are: Python and C++ code, ESP32 microcontrollers, Raspberry Pi4B, router, ultrasound sensor, OLED display, LED matrix, 3D prints, cables, speaker, CRT TV or projector.

Dimensions variable.

#Woman Critical Interface installed at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Santiago de Chile. Photo by Silvia Binda.