Peter Evers – Futures Artist

Untitled, from the series ‘Selfmade’, 2014 © Peter Evers

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Peter Evers – Futures Artist

Peter Evers joined the Belfast Exposed ‘Futures Artists’ programme in 2015 and produced a solo exhibition ‘Irresistible Drift’. Since then, Peter has gained new research opportunities and currently lectures at IADT, Dublin.

Peter’s work attempts to highlight our misplaced trust in systems and our conventional thinking about of our lived experience. Our shared delusions of identity and progress. A prompt to review whether we hold that moral and ethical concerns are evolving in time with accelerating technology. Is there capacity to confront new forms of intelligence and the potential threats they hold? The work is designed to be uncomfortable and confrontational. The work tries to aggressively undermine the viewers notion of the self, using the lens of transformative technologies where so much of the ‘self’ can be; interrupted, modified, consumed. So that we have the context for examining our present and future lives.

With the support of the Belfast Exposed ‘Futures Artists’ programme, new research opportunities were created​ for Peter. The research undertaken with support from Belfast Exposed and the attendant networks were a contributing factor in the securing of a permanent research position at IADT, Dublin where he lectures at Undergraduate and Post Graduate level. Further, this has led to ongoing research in Post Photography, Interdisciplinary Design, Cyberpsychology, Technology and Philosophy in collaboration with multiple research institutions – George Brown University, UCD Dublin etc. Peter is currently developing a Masters programme ‘Design for Uncertain Futures’.

View a selection of Peter Evers’ portfolio below

Untitled, from the series ‘Selfmade’, 2014 © Peter Evers
Untitled, from the series ‘Selfmade’, 2014 © Peter Evers
Untitled, from the series ‘Selfmade’, 2014 © Peter Evers
Untitled, from the series ‘Selfmade’, 2014 © Peter Evers
Untitled, from the series ‘Selfmade’, 2014 © Peter Evers
Untitled, from the series ‘Selfmade’, 2014 © Peter Evers
Untitled, from the series ‘Selfmade’, 2014 © Peter Evers