‘Machine Swim’ challenges the belief that our relationship to machines necessarily delivers ‘productivity’. What about our retina damage from blue lights or carpal tunnel syndrome? How about the posture of submission. The artwork asks how we can exist in relation to the machine, but without being tethered to it. Can we exist in relation to the machine and in relation to the land at the same time?

Hallie Haller explores the play that happens in public spaces and what we can make together at the intersection of movement, tech, and nature. Driven very much by the philosophy of immersion, we being the art rather than seeking to understand it, Haller is a filmmaker, a media artist, and an ambassador for GirlsInFilm's South African chapter, and most recently, a fellow of Electric South's New Dimensions Lab.