Rhonda Fenwick: Cyber Eyes Wide Open

Cyber Eyes Wide Open — Cyber Security and Humanity

for Creative Fuse, a collaboration between University of Sunderland and Cyber Security Company Accenture

My work for the exciting and innovative project, Cyber Eyes Wide Open Cyber Security and Humanity was inspired by the Japanese artist Hokusai’s iconic work the Great Wave. ‘The irresistible force of nature and the frailty of human beings’. The crashing wave paintings attempt to capture their unpredictable energy, one minute they are there and the next they are gone. This unpredictability is similar to how information technology can perform. Along with humanity’s incessant need to be heard and seen, overwhelmed with information and constant newsfeeds. The internet has created a tsunami to which we are all sucked into. The need for Cyber Security is crucial if we are to ensure personal information is protected.

The word technology comes from two Greek words, transilterated techne and logos. Techne means art, skill, craft, or the manner, or means by which a thing is gained. Logos means word, the utterance by which inward thought is expressed, or saying or an expression. So literally, technology means words or discourse about the way things are gained.

The digital prints are works created as an antithesis to the crashing wave paintings. Contemplating humanity’s place in the cosmos. Energy, light and information at North Beach Lindisfarne. A metaphor for a place of safety, solitude and space to think of how we are to continue, safely and securely in the technological age of information.

Making Waves - Series

Tsunami, Wave of Information I
Acrylic on Canvas
213 x 122cm
2021

Wave of Information II
Acrylic on Canvas
50 x 50cm
2021

Wave of Information III
Acrylic on Canvas
50 x 50cm
2021

Wave of Information IV
Acrylic on Canvas
30 x 30cm
2021

Wave of Information V
Acrylic on Canvas
60 x 45cm
2021

Waves, Codes, Contemplating Humanity
North Beach Lindisfarne I
Digital Print
297 x 420mm
2021

Waves, Codes, Contemplating Humanity
North Beach Lindisfarne II
Digital Print
297 x 420mm
2021

foam-flecked wave
Tsunami, Wave of Information I
foam-flecked wave
Wave of Information II

foam-flecked wave
Wave of Information III
foam-flecked wave
Wave of Information IV

foam-flecked wave
Wave of Information V

person on the beach overlaid with digital code
Waves, Codes, Lindisfarne I
person on the beach overlaid with digital code
Waves, Codes, Lindisfarne II