Noor Nuyten

Digital Dust (2022)

Noor Nuyten (1986, NL) creates conceptual works that appeal strongly to the imagination of the viewer. Nuyten is artistically akin to the movement of conceptual artists from the late 1960’s. Meanwhile, her work is undeniably contemporary. Her conceptual works often provide new ways to engage in a critical but humorous relationship with rationally structured systems such as time, language, and units of measurement.

Through the use of screens, place perception is shifting tremendously. Nowadays these digital surfaces even become (virtual) landscapes carried in the hand, created by our own fingerprints. While swiping on a smartphone, a cascade of actions takes place: the touch leaves a pattern of electrodes behind it. Noor Nuyten takes the viewer behind the capacitive touchscreen, recreating the patterns of the electrodes in the series of off-white reliefs called Digital Dust. Transforming an intangible movement into a physical artwork.

After thorough research together with circular company Van Plestik, Nuyten developed a way to 3D print her concept with used electronics, such as computer monitors. These electronics, alluding to the evolution of technology, are shredded, melted and 3D printed. By blending used materials, mundane objects, and gestures, the artist depicts touch on the border of the digital and physical landscape and aims to spark the imagination of the viewer.

Noor Nuyten

Enter Passcode , 2022

Melted and 3d printed (rejected) product of designer Joris Laarman

70 x 89 x 12 cm

Unique piece