Claudia Hart: Patterns and Politics

Since the mid-1990s, she has been constructing complex scenarios in virtual 3-D spaces, where mathematical structures, scientific models, and the visual rhetoric of consumer society are abstracted and merged together. This results in dense, mythologically charged worlds in which virtual bodies, ornamentation, and algorithmic processes intertwine inseparably. A simulated eye – the virtual camera – captures these worlds; the resulting render sequences form the basis for Hart's films, installations, pigment prints, rapid prototype sculptures, quilts, augmented reality wallpapers, and paintings. Thus, a cosmos of images emerges, in which scientific modes of thinking, historical narratives, and questions of perception, body, identity, attention, and power interweave.