welcome_alien | Nikole McGregor & Carlos McGregor

Nikole and Carlos McGregor are new media artists who use installation technologies, machine learning, and visual computing to explore themes of intersectional feminism. Nikole uses research-creation methods to explore how new technologies affect our experiences, building new perception and interaction patterns. Carlos explores visualizations that can expand on perceptual load.

welcome_alien introduces Dweller, an online chatbot designed to be micro-aggressive towards the viewer. Its focus is on picking at the viewer’s foreignness to the virtual space. Satirical in nature, the work uses humour to emphasize the more considerable societal impact of reducing marginalized people into stereotypes.

Biography

Nikole and Carlos McGregor are new media artists who use installation technologies, machine learning, and visual computing to explore themes of intersectional feminism. Nikole uses research-creation methods to explore how new technologies affect our experiences, building new perception and interaction patterns. Carlos explores visualizations that can expand on perceptual load.

Artist Statement

welcome_alien introduces Dweller, an online chatbot designed to be micro-aggressive towards the viewer. Its focus is on picking at the viewer’s foreignness to the virtual space. Satirical in nature, the work uses humour to emphasize the more considerable societal impact of reducing marginalized people into stereotypes.