Adam Wadey creates large-scale sculptures, installations and experiential environments that use technology to reframe how we perceive ourselves, each other, and the spaces we inhabit. He works with light, sound, movement and interactivity, exploring perception, illusion and sensory phenomena to spark moments of surprise – interruptions that cut through habit and open space for alternative ways of being.
Wadey’s practice explores the advancing interface between technology and humanity. In a world where technological systems assume ever-wider roles in our lives, he asks how these might not replace, but instead amplify, our capacity for empathy, presence and connection, and how they might deepen, rather than erode, the qualities that make us human.
Human Faces, Machine Strokes
‘Faces Of…’ explores how AI can facilitate new kinds of interactions between artwork and audience. The installation begins as a blank canvas. Every audience member who enters the space sees their portrait start to be added to this canvas, painted in a performance by a robotic mechanism holding an ink brush. One by one, the audience becomes the artwork; the final canvas is a snapshot of the community who passed through that space on that day.
‘Faces Of…’ invites us to reflect on what embodied, participatory AI art like this might suggest about futures with intelligent technologies that harbour more, rather than less, humanity
