24/01/2011

"...this usage can be subverted in a way that renders digital text - code - as 'pure' representation. The Australian artist Mary-Anne Breeze ('Mez') does this precisely in her codework poems, an example of which...[is]... [ad]Dressed in Skin C.ode ...[this] work uses the complexities and inaccessibility of computer code to point out the ambiguities and sheer chance of much representation. It uses the representational devices of a computer to generate a work of art, an instance of representation that is as much about feeling as communicating, and that critically engages with the very act of making representation."

-In _Understanding Representation_ by Jen Webb.