My name is Maisie, and I am a fine art student. I use mixed media to explore how we psychologically respond to absence, and the narratives to be found within emptiness. More recently, my work examines the use of contemporary technology to simulate emotional attachments and the commodification of grief through an interactive multimedia installation. Alongside my studio practice, I have experience supporting young people and individuals with learning disabilities, and I am interested in exploring the relationship between creativity, wellbeing, and communication through further academic study, artistic practice, and research.
Digital Necromancy is an interactive multimedia installation that explores the growing use of AI chatbots in grieving. Framed as a fictional subscription service, the piece examines simulated intimacy and the exploitation of the desire to preserve presence after death.
Digital Necromancy utilises website and chatbot elements to explore its themes of corporate predation, simulated intimacy, and failed empathy. The chatbot and website can be accessed at: https://www.everafterai.art/ (Chatbot and website made in collaboration with Alex Rogers. Email: AlexNRogers2003@outlook.com)
The concepts and language used in Digital Necromancy were shaped by interviews and informal discussions. The audio of the interviews heightens the tensions between human emotion and predatory companies, and acceptance of grief against simulated intimacy.
After the Marker is an earlier installation piece that invites the viewer to reflect on the nature of remembrance and forgetting through the observation of a grave shaped candle burning.
