Networks exist in many facets of living and non-living systems. As a digital artist, I am asked to consider the theoretical side of networks, and how they function to further the creation of my art as well as the sharing of it. In modernity, a network often evokes that of the internet, a system of communication platforms designed to share information. Family relationships fall into networked structures. Root systems of trees spring up in discernible and physical representations of interwoven connection. Lakes, glaciers, rivers, oceans, and rainclouds participate in a networked system of their own.
It is recognizing that these networks exist, and identifying new forms of connection which I am preoccupied. Built on frameworks including posthumanist thought, feminist theory, human capacity for empathy, moral ethics, and the ethics of care, my art seeks to make connections that have gone unnoticed, and build new connections to human and non-human, living and non-living entities in our network of earth-dwellers.
Utilizing many tools including 3D modeling and digital fabrication, data visualization, interactive technologies, algorithmic processes, animation and techniques in video art, I seek to situate the viewer within relationships other than human, and ask them to consider the dynamics of care, control, and power in an interwoven network that necessitates balance.
