MELANIE FOSTER Moving to the Virtual Matrix 2005 - computer parts, cable, LED lights, chicken wire and stereo sound The bodys relationship with technology through human-machine interfaces is seen through my sculptural blanket. Woven from electronic threads, wires and circuitry, and VR and Internet sounds and slogans, it presents metaphors for the body and skin, as a surface of technological and cultural inscription. Digital worlds have no tangible being; they exist only as bits of information within cyberspace. My blanket brings these technological bits into form and reframes current computer technology within a domestic and traditional craft environment. The bits and bytes and traveling electrons and cables used to weave my blanket are a suggestive collage: the collaboration between information and the material body in cyberspace. MELANIE
FOSTER
is a Newcastle-based artist and co-director of Field Contemporary Art
Space. She completed her Honours in Fine Art at the University of Newcastle
in 2005. photos courtesy of the artist |