I’ve spent my life to date developing survival skills that often seem like a process of decoding the world around me. My art practice is an expression of this process of decoding. All my artistic projects start with research and begin by looking at a large data set, with the intention of creating a visual interaction that goes beyond an aesthetic representation, and allows for poetry. My projects have included topics like High-Frequency Trading (the automation of the financial system), on-line dating apps (personal data), GPS coordinates, and, more recently, environmental statistics. With each project I’ve learned new ways to reveal the embedded patterns within systems. This has been a process of developing a language, which develops with each new topic and informs the previous works.
Naomi Cook (b. 1982, lives and works between Montreal and Paris) studied Art and Philosophy at Concordia University, Montreal. Her technique stems from an interest in engravings, sound, and visual representations of data. Her work has been featured in several group exhibitions in Montreal and abroad. Her works were selected by Canadian Art as favourites of the 2015 edition of PAPIER Art Fair, Montreal. In 2016, she was in Paris at Récollets as part of the Résidences Croisées France-Québec. Currently, she’s completing Master 2 thourgh VAE (Validation des Aquis par les Compétences) at ESADHAR - Ecole Supérieure d’Art et Design Le Havre/Rouen. Represented by Christie Contemporary. Member of Centre CLARK since 2014.
