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Story Quilt by Rebecca Mushtare


Observatory, detail by Katherine Jackson


POETIC


In the hands of artists, technology is a poetic means to reference the human-scaled, handmade, and the physical body. Artists employ a range of contemporary tools to claim a space for the primacy of the human, and remind us of the visceral and fragile physicality of the body in an increasingly virtual world. Joyce Yu-Jean Lee’s First Light explores ideas of illumination and spiritual rebirth in a life-size floor projection that challenges the figure in space, both of the depicted character and the viewer standing and watching her from above.


In her installation, Sherry Mayo’s Safe Haven asks us to reflect on a surveillance and selfie society, one where we watch ourselves as we are simultaneously being watched. Images sandblasted onto glass and lit by LEDs meditate on language, and the multiple ways we read, hear, and interpret multiple com- munication systems in Bridges to Somewhere by Katherine


Jackson. Philipe Safire’s Endless Stories consists of a large projection installation containing text, images or videos that allude to the act of writing by integrating Latin, Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and Sanskrit characters.


Rebecca Mushtare sews sound to image in her interactive Story Quilt, where your voice transforms into a digital quilt projection. Patricia Olynyk’s The Cold Open re-contextualizes images from a vast inventory of medical devices collected for their unique historical value. These light box sculptures draw to- gether both the historical and modern desire to augment, control and manipulate our corporeal selves.


Debra Pearlman’s Milk Quilt thoughtfully addresses the mechanization of child-bearing, using images of breasts digitally printed onto silk and paper in a large installation.


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