After winning the “ Best Interactive Experience Award” at Sheffield Doc Fest, ECHO went on to tour 2 major UK galleries.

As part of the Brighton Digital Festival, ECHO was installed at the LightHouse gallery for 10 days. This iteration of ECHO followed the public screening design, where the audience interact with a console in a public space, allowing the audience to view more of the stories and share the interactive experience.

At the Barbican ECHO returned to her original format, allowing the audience to have a private one on one experience inside the booth. More personal stories were recorded for this particular show, including the story of Georgie Pinn, the artist.

WINNER OF 2019 “BEST INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE” AWARD

ECHO morphs dramatically for this year’s “Alternate Realities” program. The exhibition,“ Subconscious sensibilities”, sees her shed her intimate booth body for a projection based experience. This allows the viewer to appreciate the work in an open gallery context, sharing their experience outside of the one on one format.

Where will change emerge from? From the marginalised or from within? What questions need to be asked, how will they be vocalised? The festival’s focus sets up a perfect dialogue for ECHO to comment on. Her diverse personal stories offer the audience direct emotional access to a stranger’s life and in doing so a shift in perspective. The audience are invited to test their capacity for the truth and to merge their identity with that of another.

BRISBANE ART DESIGN FESTIVAL 2019 is where art, design and the city of Brisbane collide over a 17-day festival of dynamic exhibitions, performances, talks, art tours, workshops and open studios. BAD showcases ECHO as part of the Brisbane museum’s curatorial focus on open source community with the slogan, “ It’s good to be Bad”

ECHO comes home to her creation city and wraps herself in a new skin as she travels again to Brisbane from Berlin. This time reflecting the conversations and identities of the street through local graffiti artists, Ben Reeve and Matt Studdert. Her body is also transformed by the wizardry of Johnathan Crowe. The work’s archive structure is also transformed with the addition of the ‘take home’ printed photo that ECHO ejects as documentation of the user experience.

Ars Electronica is one of the world’s largest media art venues, a digital music festival, a showcase for creativity and innovation, and a playground for the next generation – Ars Electronica is a world-class festival for art, technology and society.

After picking up an honorary mention at the Ars Electronica Festival in September, ECHO was invited to join selected winners for a group exhibition that ran at the prestigious Drive gallery in Berlin. Over a 4 month period she connected with over 50, 000 people and was able to capture more experiences from the local Berliners. The aesthetic and design for ECHO was used to extensively promote the entire exhibition.

When we are facing a world where machines may evolve to be better thinkers and doers than humans, how does the meaning of error change? How do errors make us more human? These are some of the questions raised at the future Innovator’s summit of Ars Electronica 2018. Georgie Pinn was invited to collaborate with other creative thinkers to mind map these questions.

ECHO investigates concepts that were closely aligned to the festival’s 2018 themes. ECHO, the name given to the AI character that drives the experience, asks her audience to teach her how to feel and in exchange she helps them connect with strangers. We not only feel empathy for the human stories that we share but also for her, trapped in the static glitch void. Many of ECHO’s stories are tuned to the idea of resilience; vulnerability, error and unexpected adversity which are then followed by transcendence and wisdom.

ISEA is one of the world’s most prominent international arts and technology events, bringing together scholarly, artistic, and scientific domains in an interdisciplinary discussion.The ISEA2018 theme of Intersections positioned creative technological innovation as an activist engagement into public space and public practice. ECHO became part of the conversation, working along side artisans, designers, technologists, entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists and inventors.

This particular activation was prolific in terms of being able to collect powerful emotional stories from local residents. It was here that we integrated the process of subtitling so that the stories could remain in their native language. This added a powerful addition to the work as you see yourself, in this case, speaking Zulu.

A catalyst for change, a uniter of all industries, and a platform for the future, Pause brought the world’s thought leaders like Hyperloop, NASA, IBM, Tesla, SXSW, Lucafilm, Girls in Tech and Pixar together with local heroes, for an unforgettably action-packed event.

ECHO was positioned as a public artwork in the thoroughfare of the festival space, Fed Square. This particular installation was the beginning of the automated recording booth, where ECHO invited the audience to donate their own personal story and ‘be part of something bigger’. Fed Square’s creative program offered support and allowed access to a diverse demographic, positioned deep in the heart of Melbourne’s cultural hub. Story participants ranged from the homeless community to company CEOs.

ECHO was born during a 3 month residency at the CUBE at the Queensland University of Technology. The intention of the artist, Georgie Pinn, was to extend her creative exploration of using technology to harness empathy, connect and create new forms of expression, analysing the effects and layers of multiple identity.

After years of investigating narrative based concepts where animation and sound are driven by body and facial expression tracking, she was able to develop a fully immersive emotional experience for the viewer. Commissioned by the QUT, it was break through for her career and the beginning of an extensive iterative body of work. Johnathan Parsons then commissioned the work for the hugely successful, educational Robotronica, staged at QUT.