Carlotta Aoun reflects on the idea of adaptability, and in particular how living beings adapt to technological changes. As the world races to cope with technological progress, Carlotta’s questions evolve around real and imagined techno-mutations endured by bodies, psyches and landscapes. What happens when the digital world permeates through material reality? A digital mutation? A symbiosis? Or perhaps an interference?
Her latest work, The Uncanny Valley of Breath, was commissioned by The Science Gallery Dublin as part of the exhibition BIAS: BUILT THIS WAY. Her work is also featured in Solimán López’ Harddiskmuseum and in the Design Science Studio’s Museum Of Regenerative Art (MORA).
Carlotta was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1991, a country where a flourishing oil economy transitioned towards political, social and economical instability. These changes repeatedly challenged her identity, dreams, expectations and sense of home. She learned to adapt, start anew, and embraced an impermanent cycle of constant change. After studying Fundamental Physics in the Pierre et Marie Curie University (UPMC) in Paris she applied to the MFA Design and Technology at Parsons – The New School from which she graduated in May 2017.