Wooden Shields
2008
Birch and Marine plywood
These works are part of a series of wooden ‘shields’ that reference moments from digital folklore.
‘Acorn Archimedes’ compares the decline of the British Red Squirrel, due to the influx of the American Grey Squirrel, to the demise of Acorn computers in relation to the growth of the US Microsoft company.
‘Elk Cloner’ is the name given to an early computer virus that was made by a 15 year old American boy. The virus installed a poem on affected computers.
