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FOUNDATIONS / digits / encoded
2003-2013
These early works explore the body, relationships, and materiality/ immateriality, through computational processes that span jacquard weaving, data-driven fabrication, video, and mapping/ surveillance. Data is designed into pattern, structure, surface, and form, collapsing distinctions between computation and craft. Drawing on feminist scholarship that traces the lineage between looms and computers, these works understand digital systems and textiles as parallel modes, where the hand (digits) operates as an interface for embedding information and meaning. This work extends textile-based knowing into computational space, a trajectory that continues in later explorations of biofabrication, where code, matter, and living systems intersect.
PARENT FOLDER
Parent Folder centres on the collection of property surveillance images. Using remote access to a domestic surveillance camera, the artist observed and recorded fragments of her father’s daily life, downloading footage from an archive titled Parent Folder. This material becomes the basis for a series of translations across media, transforming acts of watching into objects, images, and embodied gestures. The project engages the computational logic of “parent” and “child” directories as both structural and relational metaphor.
Networked Intimacies
These selected works engage online platforms and networked media as sites of encounter, intimacy, and translation, spanning video, digital print, and performance. Drawing from platforms such as YouTube and Skype, they explore how relationships are mediated, fragmented, and reconstituted through digital systems. Installed across gallery and public space, these works address the unstable boundaries between private and public, presence and representation, connection and control.
Jacquard and Digital Adjacent Weavings
These works explore weaving as a computational practice, including hand loom experimentation, jacquard processes, and digitally informed pattern construction. Positioned at the intersection of textile traditions such as damask and digital logic, they investigate how structure, pattern, and image emerge through programmed sequences of interlacing threads. Here, the loom operates as what it is: a proto-computational device, and weaving as a method of data inscription.