With its symmetrical and geometric shapes, it seems inconceivable that Heterotic String Series – From the 10th Dimension (2002) is not rendered by a computer language. The information-laden drawing is inspired by her interest in the blueprints of science: diagrams of circuitous chemical compounds, atomic particles, and motorized gears. In the process of drawing, Myers seems to revel in her early exposure to the esoteric nature of the universe growing up as the daughter of a physicist. Unlike the deductive experimentation required from work in physics, Myers’s research of scientific forms involves an uncharted navigation through large planes of paper. She investigates, with the means of hand, graphite, and gouache, the structures that have been discovered only by means of advancements in the sciences.

The artists in privilege the handmade to render aesthetically complex forms that are approximations and critiques of technology. Each offers us an enlightened and sophisticated reading of an ever-shifting relationship between art, humankind, and the machine.

- Karen Rapp + Linda Theung, Guest Curators
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1. Jane South, Interview by Karen Rapp and Linda Theung, 8 September 2005.

2. Eduardo Abaroa, email correspondence with Linda Theung, 7 November 2005.

3. In essence, under NAFTA, Mexico became a world leader in the production of a range of technological goods from cell phones to carburetors, all the while perpetuating its third-world, pre-modern labor standards.

4. Stephen Hendee, email correspondence Karen Rapp, 20 December 2005; see also Greg Allen’s essay “The (Other) Sims” which accompanies the exhibition Atlas Drowned at the Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery at UNLV, 2006.