Stuck at Home is an interactive work reflecting on the isolation of the COVID era, searching for (limited) connection through technology. Through a collection of buttons resembling the layout of a phone’s home screen, the work allows the user to browse a collection of cell phone videos taken in and around the artist’s home after moving to a new city in 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The viewer can navigate the videos by tapping on the buttons, revealing both more detail and additional videos to browse. This work seeks to make new forms of virtual, long-distance connections by sharing the sights and textures of the artist’s day to day life with friends and family from afar.

Kate Hollenbach (she/they) is an artist and programmer based in San Francisco, California. Her work relates body, physical space, and user interface design to reflect on how mobile devices and networks shape social interactions, habits, and language. She has presented, published, and exhibited work in venues such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SIGGRAPH, INST-INT, Piksel Festival, and Taper. Kate holds an MFA from UCLA Design Media Arts and a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT. She is currently the Education Director at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts.