MEMORISED OBJECTS

Anderson began painting at an early age. Captivated by computers in the 1980s and the development of the World Wide Web in the 1990s, she starts collecting used technological objects, printed circuits and electronic devices, sensing that there is "something else" at play beyond these objects.

 

The artist began working with wire in 2010 after dismantling an alarm clock and discovering a copper coil embedded in its machinery. That year, she developed her own weaving technique using copper-colored wire, an eco-friendly material that evokes copper and represents the neuronal and technological connections of the internet's early days.

 

Anderson puts forward the concept of memorization (rather than wrapping or enveloping) to describe the gesture of encircling an object with wire. As she becomes familiar with the object through this process, she memorizes her relationship with it.