Artist Kate Cooper creates works that seek to penetrate the surface of this digital membrane, exposing how these new visual languages might complicate divisions between our physical and virtual selves. Her CG protagonists bleed, bruise, tire, and get sick, displaying a fragility that defies their presumed immortality and ceaseless output. Using an uncanny mix of photographic and pixel-built images, Cooper operates in the increasingly intertwined space between technology and the self. Her works go deeper, cutting into this digital landscape to reveal the unseen labor within. She manipulates her hyperreal, simulated bodies as a sculptor might manipulate clay, transforming their immaterial corporeal forms so that they might appear uncomfortable, vulnerable, even human.