Beverley Hood
.JPG "Doppelganger, 2003/ 2004")
'Doppelganger' (2003/ 2004) is a digital artwork attempting to reflect upon the tradition of portraiture using 21st century technology. A series of seven digitally printed portraits, 10% larger-than-life, the work depicting an internationally diverse group of artists, who were artists-in-residence at the same time as myself in Basel, Switzerland, in 2002. The portraits are contradictory, presenting unusually ‘normal’ shapes and sizes for digital characters, yet due to the nature of the medium they remain ultimately synthetic, being strongly suggestive of a set of characters from a computer game.
'On the surface' (2009/ 2011) is a digitally animated work based on the psychological and personal experience of an ‘out of control’ body. Inspired by a research project I developed with dermatologists at the University of Edinburgh (2007 - 2008), 'On the surface' allowed me to take a distinct route away from the very specific research work, into a more exploratory process, involving a wide variety of imagery and techniques. The video takes the viewer on a fragmented, emotional, surreal journey around a digital body in a conflicted state of being.
Beverley Hood studied Sculpture and Electronic Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee and Nova Scotia College of Art, Canada. Since the mid 1990s she has created digital and interactive art projects that interrogate the impact of the virtual on the body, relationships and human experience.
www.bhood.co.uk