Digital Skin Audio Guide
Work 12: Digital Skin, 2017–2018
Commissioned for Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY
Wood, digital vinyl prints, polyethylene foam, and nylon rope | 12 x 26 x 22 ft. and 8 x 7 x 5 ft.
Development Models for Digital Skin, 2017 | Pipe cleaners | Dimensions variable
Location: Part of annual exhibition at Socrates Sculpture Park which chose 13 emerging artists by application. The park is open every day of the year and serves as a community gathering place, space for art.
Concept: Created from artists’ previous billboard projects, the piece aimed to create an unexpected creature from an alternate world that communicates through images on its skin.
Process: I made modular “bones” out of wood, made pipe cleaner models to create the shape, and wrapped the structure with foam and then upholstered it with the billboards.
ActivitY
Writing / Discussion Questions:
Write one paragraph on each of the following questions
- What is a new technology that makes you excited? Describe it and explain why?
- What kinds of technology make you nervous? Is there a type of technology that you think should be outlawed? Describe and explain why?
- What kind of technology would you like to see but haven’t seen yet? Describe in detail.
Sculpture Activity:
Supplies: Paper, drawing tools, pipe cleaners, camera.
Using between 1 and 3 pipe cleaners each, make 3 different invented creatures.
- Make a creature that is helpful and harmonious.
- Make a creature that is scary and possibly dangerous.
- Make a being that is your idea of what a typical person might look like in 500 years.
- Write one paragraph about each one, explaining its identity, characteristics, and how you made it.
- Take a variety of photographs of each sculpture against a neutral background to show its identity and character.