&Karen Bleitz

	Interactive wall sculpture produced as part of the Root exhibition. ViewAers are invited to dissect and recompose the image of a unicorn - the artist’s first digital image created with DOS programming at the age of ten.

Wall mounted interactive sculpture with three texts on the theme of ‘Generation X’. The trough of magnetized words allows the readers to speak back to the authors and in the process creates a constantly shifting reflection of all who come into contact with the piece.


Magnetized texts on the theme of ‘Generation X’ are re-composed, photocopied then inserted by the readers. The role of authorship and authority in the age of digital communication is explored as the boundaries between author and public break down in the cut-and-paste world.




Re-written by each new reader, the book puts forth questions about identity and how it is constructed. Relentlessly, it demands the answer to, ‘How do you spell a woman?’



A kinetic portrait created from electronic conversations that stream between the states of fantasy and reality. The work examines what peoples’ virtual selves, avatars and other digital reincarnations, reveal about the transient nature of identity today.



A pop-out jig-sawed book-work on the theme of the cloned sheep, Dolly, with a freestanding herd of sheep integrated into the form of the book.





Discs, drivers, levers and gears are used to create mechanical metaphors and to give readers a new, physical tool with which to break down and examine the underlying meaning of words.

Karen Bleitz has been creating book works in England since 1997. Her Interactive and often sculptural books draw readers in by allowing them to alter or manipulate the page.

Books with machines, pop-ups, and magnets become dynamic stages where the reader actively participates in debates around issues that range from the evolution of language to the role of gender and the body in communication. The transformations that take place within the pages force her readers to 're-view' and experience the subjects from a changed perspective.