Katie Hallam
Katie Hallam’s practice explores the hidden architectures of digital systems and their potential to leave lasting imprints on the Earth’s surface.
Through sculptural forms and digital photography, she visualises the physical residue of technology, its infrastructure, its waste, and its ecological consequences. Her work imagines a future where the digital becomes geological, asking what traces our current systems might fossilise into the landscape
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By connecting digital culture with geological deep time, Hallam slows down the pace of technological progress to reveal its contradictions and vulnerabilities. Her pieces often evoke a sense of suspended motion, where fast-moving data and invisible networks are reinterpreted as static, tactile forms. In doing so, she invites viewers to consider the long-term impact of innovation and the human narratives embedded within it.
At Oxford North, a place rooted in shaping the future, Hallam’s work offers a timely reflection on how creativity and knowledge can evolve through diversity of thought and sustainable design. Her practice encourages us to imagine a world where technological advancement is not only measured by speed and efficiency, but by its capacity to coexist with the environment thoughtfully, inclusively, and with enduring care
