svitoora – Looking Outward 10 – Lorna Barnshaw

Lorna Barnashaw works as a digital creative director in the UK Barnshaw’s private life is relatively unknown, but she is famous as the artist that tries to 3-D Copy and Print herself.

While Barnshaw was attempting to 3-D capture herself so that she could 3D print herself, Barnshaw encountered many glitches in the various software and hardware she uses. Instead of discarding those glitches as defects, Barnshaw embraces the technological imperfection because it “illustrates that technology is flawed”. This notion that technology is “close mimicking reality but isn’t quite there yet” is a central theme to Barnshaw’s work, but for me, her work raises the question of what does human identity mean in a digital age? By 3D printing, these glitched forms from the digital realm into the physical realm, Barnshaw’s work transcend the digital and physical binary. I really Barnshaw’s work because it speaks about identity and technology in a physical form.