Fionn McErlean (b.1998) is a Dublin-based artist. His work explores the construction of circumscribed knowledge while navigating hidden spaces, old technology, and the archive. His multi-disciplinary practice includes Film, Photography, Digital animation, and Theatrical elements, incorporated into essayist structures and fictional narratives.

‘Untitled’ explores the dangers of ‘over-specialization’, an argument posed by Buckminster Fuller in his book ‘Operating Manual Spaceship Earth’. Fuller brings clarity to these dangers by noting how over-specialization has been used as a tool of control. Control imposes limitations. He tells a short story about a flightless, nameless bird that went extinct due to over-specialization.