Infinite Scroll
Screenprint on wool
4’ x 16’
Screenprint on wool
4’ x 16’
Reimagining Cyborg Ecologies
Risograph printed
7” x 10”
Coptic bound
Risograph printed
7” x 10”
Coptic bound
Reimagining Cyborg Ecologies is my senior thesis project that materializes in a textile installation and a hand-bound book. Together, they are a reflection on where digital spaces can take us. I frame the internet as a deeply cultural landscape where creativity operates as both the medium and the message. Originally built as a platform for instant connection and open exchange, it has become increasingly commercialized. Only a handful of companies control the majority of digital real estate, optimizing their highly trafficked platforms for profit, and flattening popular culture as more trapping than liberating. This project serves as a return to the internet not as a passive tool, but as an embodied space that bears creative fruit, unbound by the constraints of the physical body.
Through each medium, my goal is to understand how internet identities are shaped and shared, and where meaning emerges between bodies and digital infrastructure. I view the internet not as a static entity, but as actively evolving and embodied; a mirror and extension of who we are as users. Through this, it asks the question of how we might understand new way of thinking about creativity, connection, and agency online. A prominent theme that I explore is reinterpreting digital images as tactile — concepts of a handmade web, and digital infrastructure holding the weight of how we perceive communication within social contexts. The thesis frames the internet as conceptually imagined, yet articulated through physical form. In doing so, it presents the themes in a way that solidifies the impact of the message — not through the quick scroll of a screen or the immediacy of information, but as an intimate, slow, and tactile experience.
In the textile installation’s portrayal of digital themes as tactile, the work urges the viewer to reimagine the internet not as separate from the self, but as intimately woven into our identities. Infinite Scroll is a re-acknowledgement of our bodies within these coexisting interactions. Silver screen printed HTML runs down the 16-foot wool piece, unraveled as a digital and tactile hybrid of information; code becomes the alternate language of communication in this context. The written content is a collection of statements about the internet, posted by users on public internet forums wrapped in an <article> element, and user responses to the statements wrapped in a <p> (paragraph) element.
Complementing the installation is a seventy-page artist book composed of research and writing — digitally designed, risograph printed on black paper, and coptic bound.
The book documents forty-four websites created for creative education, community building, and mediation. Website home pages are interwoven throughout the publication, each accompanied by a caption that provides context to the site. Number labels correspond to a compiled index of website links at the end of the book.
The writing is academic yet personal, aimed as a gathering of knowledge beyond institutional contexts of internet embodiment, cyberspace, digital identities, and environments. Since the internet is a technology that holds deep social and cultural weight, the sources acknowledge an interdisciplinary approach to the research, drawing from scholarship across art, women and gender studies, anthropology, ecology, and geography.
The book documents forty-four websites created for creative education, community building, and mediation. Website home pages are interwoven throughout the publication, each accompanied by a caption that provides context to the site. Number labels correspond to a compiled index of website links at the end of the book.
Grounded in extensive research, this project asks what agency we hold in cyberspace, and what our bodies become as a result. It reconstructs the internet as an environment shaped by its inhabitants, one that requires and rewards active participation. The call is ultimately toward a more humane, collaborative, and artist-shaped digital world.