Erinne Huston

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 Erinne Huston is a Canadian artist and filmmaker currently practicing in London. She focuses on ‘website_specific’ art designed to be presented within a digital context, reflecting her firm belief that digital spaces should not be treated as an alternative to the ‘real-world’ or limited by rules that don’t apply to digital work. Despite this, she grapples with how interfaces can be used in unique ways to carry website_specific work to meatspace. 

She exclusively uses herself within her art, but not acting as Erinne, or as artist, just as a placeholder human. She places a heavy weight on the significance of uploading a person online, to be digitally altered, scraped, and profiled, and find the only person she is comfortable doing this to is herself.

Recursivity plays a large part in Erinne’s work, through both material decisions and the computational history she is inspired by. Cyberfeminism and the link between women and emerging technologies are the scaffold her work rests on. By intentionally forsaking the intended use of the software she works with, she allows 'Computational Crust' to seep into her work, reflecting on the imperfect, the true materiality of digital systems that is often minimized for the sake of a sanitized final product. 

Erinne’s films play off of 'what-if' scenarios, creating art from fun and simple questions. Why do I feel shame when my meatspace friends see my skimpy avatar? If a woman were to exist in cyberspace, but nobody knew it, would she still be a woman? <- Or something else entirely?