My work often takes the form of immersive installations in which viewers are made to question their position in relation to the work. Unexpected elements within the installations lead to shifts in the viewers’ perceptions, causing confusion and doubt which mirror the uncertain times in which we live.

Lost in Translation is a response to the increasing role that real-time technologies play in most of our lives. The installation portrays the blurring of worlds in which we live…the real and virtual, tactile and intangible, material and immaterial. The work was initially inspired by a strange phenomenon, where computers ‘read’ scans of open-weave fabrics as text. One of these textiles was transformed through a series of material and immaterial processes into etched copper and music. This installation questions the possible effects of real-time technologies, suggesting that perhaps the physicality of the real world is being lost through the translation of the tactile world into computer data.

Email: sue_tarbitten@yahoo.com
Website: www.suetarbitten.com

Prev | Next