Artist Statement:
Through my practice, I explore aspects of virtual culture in relation to its aesthetic of hyper-stimulation and sensory overload. My works play on aspects of the virtual versus the physical, using the tools and materials of high-tech/digital culture combined with the handmade and tactile. I aim to create works that simultaneously allude to craft traditions, weaving, knitting, basket making ; as well as virtual space, neural networks, cloud computing, and bio-mimicry.
‘Jodi Stuart’s work Super Synthetic is a departure from the typical definition of multimedia. Stuart’s work starts with pixelated 2D images of computer glitches from a public satellite feed. From there she creates 3D plastic models representing the chaos and beauty of haptic feedback. These sculptures are hard to describe, and are oddly splendid. Stuart’s sculptures make us question the images that are being repeated and coded behind the scenes of everyday technological advances. Most people do not realize that these processes exist and her work makes us experience the sublime in visualizing technology.’
Juror Carrie Levy – Creative Director, The New York Times quote from Lenscratch