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![Isla Hansen headshot](https://dedalusfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2015_hansen_isla_00.jpg)
Isla Hansen (Carnegie Mellon University) is a recipient of the 2015 Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting & Sculpture.
Hansen’s work manifests as sculpture, installation, video, and performance. She draws on popular media, consumer culture, and play to illuminate ways in which our bodies connect to technologies in the world around us. Hansen traces her playful relationship with technology to her childhood, when she ritually watched Sesame Street, The Brave Little Toaster, and Star Trek. In these programs technological objects had their own way of communicating. Accordingly, it is through a language of play that Hansen best communicates with technology.
![A contraption resembling a collection of different athletic equipment, a trampoline, and a group of chairs placed together in an installation](https://dedalusfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2015_Hansen_Isla_01-768x450.jpg)
![An installation image of a screen showing hands pushing putty into an ice tray, with smaller screens on pedestals](https://dedalusfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2015_Hansen_Isla_08-768x662.jpg)
![Images of sports fields and objects built on top of smartphones](https://dedalusfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2015_Hansen_Isla_07-768x298.jpg)
![A professor lecturing to a class with a large eyeball sculpture beside him](https://dedalusfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2015_Hansen_Isla_06-768x513.jpg)
![A large spiky cushioned gray sculpture in different settings with children](https://dedalusfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2015_Hansen_Isla_05-768x555.jpg)
![Three installation images featuring an oversized tripod, stacks of blue Gatorade, and other elements in a gallery space](https://dedalusfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2015_Hansen_Isla_04-768x312.jpg)
![A cushion in the shape of an athlete jumping, with a screen projecting the same image alongside chunks of machinery](https://dedalusfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2015_Hansen_Isla_03-768x293.jpg)
![Drawings of different recognizable items including a tomato, a credit card, a raw chicken wing, and a sneaker framed and hung together](https://dedalusfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2015_Hansen_Isla_02-768x499.jpg)
![A contraption resembling a collection of different athletic equipment, a trampoline, and a group of chairs placed together in an installation](https://dedalusfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2015_Hansen_Isla_01.jpg)
![An installation image of a screen showing hands pushing putty into an ice tray, with smaller screens on pedestals](https://dedalusfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2015_Hansen_Isla_08.jpg)
![Images of sports fields and objects built on top of smartphones](https://dedalusfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2015_Hansen_Isla_07.jpg)
![A professor lecturing to a class with a large eyeball sculpture beside him](https://dedalusfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2015_Hansen_Isla_06.jpg)
![A large spiky cushioned gray sculpture in different settings with children](https://dedalusfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2015_Hansen_Isla_05.jpg)
![Three installation images featuring an oversized tripod, stacks of blue Gatorade, and other elements in a gallery space](https://dedalusfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2015_Hansen_Isla_04.jpg)
![A cushion in the shape of an athlete jumping, with a screen projecting the same image alongside chunks of machinery](https://dedalusfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2015_Hansen_Isla_03.jpg)
![Drawings of different recognizable items including a tomato, a credit card, a raw chicken wing, and a sneaker framed and hung together](https://dedalusfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2015_Hansen_Isla_02.jpg)