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An 8' x 8' foot sheet of glass, etched with with duplicated images of in utero infants is illuminated by scrolling genetic coding projected from behind the installation and across the walls, objects and viewers of the piece. 10 lab vessels are filled with wax heated to liquid by a small flame emanating from a steel pipe supporting the glassware. Etching on each vessel displays distorted code through the heated wax.
Artifacts of Computation is intended as a meditative piece exploring ideas of the body in a world increasingly defined by science, and code and ideas of mutability. The piece does not attempt to make specific statements so much as create a space for the contemplation of these ideas – while defining the viewer visually by illuminating them entirely in an endless stream of genetic code.
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