In a world increasingly defined by acceleration and information overload, what does it mean to slow down with technology? This conversation brings together artists Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil, Hung Lu Chan, Róisín Berg and Arnaud Laffond whose practices explore the poetic, sensorial and spiritual dimensions of digital media. From Berg & Laffond’s reflections on perception and relation in networked space as part of their Cybernate Digital Arts Residency Residency, to Hung Lu Chan’s vision of symbiotic coexistence between human and non-human intelligence, and Mac Cathmhaoil’s sculptural alchemy of body, signal and dream - each artist transforms technology from instrument to meditation. Together they consider how digital systems can become sites of contemplation rather than extraction, where code, consciousness and material form flow into one another. Moving through fluid states of being, between virtual and embodied, mechanical and spiritual - the panel asks: can technology help us listen more deeply to ourselves, to each other, and to the world around us?

This panel is presented in association with the French Embassy in Ireland and with the support of Institut français as part of Novembre Numérique.