In <I’m Not A Robot>, six artists explore the role of technology in our lives; in making us feel, in art itself and in the feelings it evokes. The works of these celebrated international artists blur the barriers between physical and digital art, pushing between the human and the machine: some combine the two and co-create with technology, whilst others push against it as a barrier – something we now hide behind to avoid the need to feel and to face our human obligations head on.

 “For me, so often being a woman online is simply about having the right to be visible, having a right to exist in a space. The implications of that visibility mean always knowing the context: where your body is, how it is presented, and who is looking at it and who is following you, wanted and unwanted. There is a balance of visibility and fear. How do we translate this into something beautiful and how do technology and algorithms translate this, or do they expose it?” Addie Wagenknecht

 So as we emerge fully from the pandemic, when we finally become free to engage in all of our old rituals of bonding, how do we shake ourselves out of newly-formed isolationist habits, thinking and feelings? We have been so reliant on technology to make and maintain human connection in these recent years, do we even remember how to form human-to-human bonds when not in front of a screen? Will we only achieve this if we purge ourselves of our technology crutch, or have we now become bionic; so intertwined with technology that it is an essential enabler, something that enhances and improves our ability to reach out and feel?