Steve Berrick
Hello Future Self
About
Hello Future Self explores our increasingly augmented world by allowing participants to create an avatar that unites human and robotic senses. The experience seamlessly blends physical and digital interactions, resulting in a collaborative digital animation. Participants can prepare for human technology integration by deciding how to alter their avatar’s body. Which sense would you prioritise?
Inviting children to see their creations come to life, Hello Future Self is a participatory drawing project which transforms hand-drawn artworks into digital animations. Using a checkbox system embedded in each template – a nod to punch-card programming systems of the past – the work allows participants to customise their avatar’s features after its digital birth. Using simple, accessible scanning technology, young participants are encouraged to engage without assistance.
Playfully interactive and designed especially for children, Hello Future Self is nonetheless powered by complex 3D worlds and computer vision techniques.
The Artist
Steve Berrick
Steve Berrick is an artist and creative coder. With a degree in Computer Science, his work focuses on software and technology.