Another Infrastructure (AI)
Arts ensemble Drop Table will create works with the community in Clondalkin about how we use technology together. We will run a series of socially engaged arts events about developing agency around our network technologies.
These will consider the environmental, ethical and social impact of using commercial technologies that run information through energy-intensive data centres. We will explore how the Clondalkin community can build their own server technologies and self-hosted websites and create a community-run web space. Our team of six artists will run a series of workshops and social events that will develop artworks and documentation for web, and we will then create a low-yield website to host this documentation and these artworks as a final output. This web artwork and any associated objects will be hosted in south Dublin, and the community will decide how it can be accessed (eg. globally or locally accessible).
Artist Biographies
Drop Table
Drop Table is an ensemble of artists that consider the entanglement of technology and society. They are based in Ireland. The ensemble develop artistic projects that present critical perspectives on how technologies influence human and nonhuman behaviours. Founded in 2025, projects are led by artistic producer Shane Finan.
Artists
Shane Finan
Shane Finan (he/them) assembles artworks and projects from interactive contemporary technologies, found objects, and traditional artistic media. Their work is as both artist and creative producer on collaborative projects.
Their practice explores how nonhuman organisms and technologies are entangled, and for this he builds installations using traditional and digital media, and runs social and community-focussed events. They have managed projects combining art, environment and technology since 2007 and are co-founder of ^, a collective art-space in Manorhamilton that hosts community-facing events and projects.
https://shanefinan.org/
Alisha Doody
Alisha Doody (she/her) is a visual artist with a socially engaged practice whose work combines solo and collaborative research methodologies. Through photography, moving image and installation her work explores the role of mentorship and history in relation to identity development specifically within the LGBTQI+ community. She holds an MA in Socially Engaged Art and Further Education (NCAD 2019).
https://www.alishadoody.com/
Dasha Ilina
Dasha Ilina (she/her) is a Russian techno-critical artist based in Paris, France. Through the employment of low-tech and DIY approaches, her work questions the desire to incorporate modern technology into our daily lives by highlighting the implications of actually doing so. Her practice engages the public in order to facilitate a space for the development of critical thought regarding social imperatives for care of oneself and others, privacy in the digital age, and the reflexive contemporary urge to turn to technology for answers.
https://dashailina.com/
Living Rhythms
Living Rhythms are Heather Griffin (she/her) and Patrick Mulvihill (he/him). They operate at the intersection of art, design and futures to bring communities together and create new narratives for our transitional times. Within this space they present alternative visions of the world through speculative futures, worldbuilding, immersive audio, and experiential learning. Their work creates space for considered debate, through multilayered experimentation, prototyping and transdisciplinary collaboration.
They mix media, engage communities, conduct deep research and embrace complex systems to build powerful collaborative networks and narratives that will help shape more equitable and regenerative futures.
https://makenice.ie/ (Heather) and https://amicitia.org/ (Patrick)
Paul O'Neill
Paul O’ Neill (he/him) is an artist and lecturer at the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, University of Galway. His practice and research are concerned with the implications of our collective dependency on networked technologies and infrastructures. Paul holds a PhD in critical media art practice from Dublin City University and is an academic collaborator with the ADAPT Centre for AI-Driven Media Technologies. He is also co-curator of the Dublin Art & Technology Association (DATA) and English editor of Neural Magazine of Critical Digital Culture and Media Arts.
Associates
Documentation: Cían Flynn (Look Alive)
Cían Flynn (Look Alive) will document the social events. Cían is a photographer and filmmaker from north-west Ireland with extensive experience documenting arts events and festivals, including regular work with Roscommon Arts Office, The Model Sligo, The Eco Showboat, Body & Soul Festival and Night and Day.
https://lookalive.ie/
Food: Amy Bunce (Unwrapped)
Food-based artist, chef and entrepreneur Amy Bunce will provide locally sourced food with low waste as a core part of this project. Amy runs Unwrapped, a packaging free food business, and has an arts practice that emphasises food as a care practice.