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Harris Museum and Art Gallery. 2004
Group exhibition Curatored by Lesley Sanderson/Julie Westerman
Catalogue Essay Shirley MacWilliam, Interessay

 

Works by Julie Westerman

 

Virtual Breeze (rapid prototype sculptures and a projected animation)
Live-Wire-Frame, (Electroluminescent wire, light sculpture) 
Underskirt (a computer animation) 
Cut Glass (engraved glass)

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All of the components in this body of work have a common starting point; that of an animated CAD model of a tablecloth blown by a computer generated breeze. In Virtual Breeze the freeze frames of the animation have been output as resin sculptures produced as rapid prototypes, placed on an acrylic construction referencing computer space, and blown by a digital projection of a fan. Underskirt looks underneath the blown cloth; the animation looses its formal wire frame origins and becomes organic and seductive. Freeze frames of this animation become the fine engravings of Cut Glass, almost imperceptible. Finally, Live-Wire-Frame takes the wire frame from the animation into the physical form, where unlike the other works the means of production is made overtly visible.

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