Elaine Hoey works mainly creating interactive based installations, appropriating gaming industry aesthetic and techniques, such as virtual reality, motion capture, 3d virtual avatars and environments. Hoey’s work focuses on the intersection between media, technology and politics. As we become increasingly digitally dependant, her work remind us of the political stakes not only of the pictures our media show us, but in the way our eyes, ears and bodies encounter them. Utilising virtual reality technology she investigates immersing the viewer in performative and often uncomfortable roles within her digitally constructed worlds exploring the potential of mediated presence as an experience capable of challenging perceptions of the virtual and the real.