Wayne Clements (image: Jac Depczyk)

"Although I am a visual artist, most of my work involves using words. So it seemed an obvious step to use a computer. Really computers are just a lot of instructions, and computers can be programmed to do things to words.  I call rules and instructions for doing things to words a "text machine" or "writing machine".  Basically the computer would simulate this machine. Actually this is a rather old idea -- the idea that a computer is a machine that simulates other machines.  It's Alan Turing's idea.  Now, of course computers are networked. Much of my recent work uses this fact, doing different things to words and images on the Internet".