ceara margaret hennessey <3

I create works that exist between poetry, browser-based art, and performance. Rather than treating the internet as a platform for displaying finished work, I use digital systems themselves as artistic material. Much of my practice examines the ways contemporary technologies attempt to organize human experience. Search engines, AI, simulations, archives, and interfaces all promise to preserve us, understand us, or reconstruct us. I am interested in the moments where that promise starts to destabilize, where memory, identity, and emotional experience exceed the systems designed to contain it.

My work often begins with deeply personal material before expanding into larger questions about digital culture. A browser window, a transcript, or a recreated domestic space can function simultaneously as autobiography and as a model for thinking about how technology mediates grief, intimacy, labor, and selfhood. Rather than documenting my lived experience, I build environments that ask viewers to inhabit it, using tools such as p5.js, blender, google sheets, simulation games, and the browser itself.

I am interested in creating works that invite navigation and play. I think of interfaces as literary forms and interaction as a kind of authorship shared between artist and audience. The viewer scrolls, clicks, explores, waits, and occasionally gets lost. Meaning emerges through movement rather than linear narrative. Ultimately, my practice asks what it means to leave traces of ourselves inside computational systems. I am less interested in whether technology can faithfully represent human experience than in how its limitations reveal the things that cannot be archived, optimized, or translated into data.