Nicola Naismith

Everyday Obsolescence

Abandoned computer monitor *SG6383XW7Q6* has individual surface qualities. Once exuding perfection, hygiene and modernity, the monitor screen was unable to sustain these modernist qualities and had given way to a collection of traces associated with human activity and storage. It signifies the transience of technology. Viewing the surface through a digital lens allows the object to be recorded and re-presented. The images are reminiscent of crystals, butterfly iridescence, growing plant material, active Petri dishes and aerial archaeological photography.

On opening, the monitor reveals evidence of human activity. Within this manufactured and assembled object the signs of the maker or perhaps more appropriately the assembler were limited, however the sign of the hand made was still present and intriguing.

In 2006 Nicola was selected to participate in Escalator Visual Arts, an Arts Council England East initiative which supports talent in the Eastern region. This residency is part of a larger project ‘Work, working practices, places and spaces’ supported and funded by The National Lottery through Arts Council England, Norfolk County Council and the Sir Phillip Reckitt Educational Trust.

Images and Text © Nicola Naismith 2007

 

 

 

 

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