Sophie Kahn is a digital artist and sculptor who currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. I actually chose to discuss this artist because I had the honor of working with her last winter under an internship. The time I spent with her was invaluable as I learned about her art and about what it meant to live within the art world of New York City. With that said, much of Sophie’s work addresses technology’s failure to capture the unstable human body. By using a 3D laser scanner to record a model’s physical body she creates a fragmented digital body. Sophie explains that the scanner she uses was never meant to handle the dynamic nature of the human body and therefore produces glitchy data that results in her iconic imagery. While a majority of her work is in the form of 3D printed sculptures, she also experiments with prints and videos.
