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Jean Shin, Textile, 2006 (in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia)
22,528 recycled computer keycaps and 192 custom keycaps, fabric, customized active keyboard, and interactive software, video projection and painted aluminum armatures
31 �� h x 48� w x 25 ft d
Installation at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Jean Shin (born in Seoul, Korea) is a Brooklyn-based artist who creates elaborate sculptures and site-specific installations that suggest imaginary communities through the use of accumulated cast-offs.
Mary Ceruti, director of Sculpture Center writes, �Jean Shin uses discarded material (the excess, the forgotten, the no longer useful) in works that operate between abstraction and representation. Made from the remnants of contemporary urban life, Shin�s sculptures form a sort of visual history and a social mapping.�
Her installations have been widely exhibited internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Asia Society, Brooklyn Museum, Sculpture Center, Fabric Workshop, Socrates Sculpture Park, PKM Gallery (Beijing, China), Ssamzie Space (Seoul Korea), Frederieke Taylor Gallery, and Galerie Eric Dupont (Paris). She has received numerous awards including a GSA Art in Architecture Commission, Pollock-Krasner Grant, Louis Comfort Tiffany Art Award, and NYFA Fellowship in Sculpture. Her works have been featured in publications, including Art in America, Artnews, The New York Times, Tema Celeste, and Time Out.

Shin has also been awarded a GSA Art in Architecture commission for a permanent large scale work in the lobby of the Fallon Federal Building in Baltimore, Maryland. It is scheduled for installation in Fall 2007.

In this interactive sculpture, thousands of discarded keyboard keys are embedded into a continuous textile. Read left to right, the keycaps spell-out a line-by-line transcript of the email correspondence between the artist and fabricators on the creation of the artwork. On this unique desktop, amid the first three rows of emails, are active keys which allow viewers to type their own messages. These are then projected onto the other end of the fabric, thereby continuing the virtual dialogue