2024 | Data Composite — Annabelle McEwen

Data Composite, 2024, laser etched wood block printed in plaster, 18 x 18 cm, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre

As technology extracts resources, the body has become a commodified data asset. This work interrogates virtual surveillance by repeatedly filtering the self portrait through social media editing software fabricating a compression artefact. Printing into plaster transposes my visual data into a physicality as an antithesis to the virtual images we consume via the luminosity of screens. My body is atomised and disseminated throughout the ether of the cloud and my legacy is written in data.