BROWSERS AND GATEWAYS
VIRTUAL WORLD
Browsers and Gateways
The family of sculptures in cast aluminium are the work of artist Jonathan Clarke. An impressive Gateway draws you into the square as you walk down New Fetter Lane. You are then welcomed by seven Browsers which sit in the middle of the square. They represent an abstract of grazing animals as New Street Square's land was originally gifted to the Goldsmiths Company as a field or pasture. The sizes of the pieces vary from shoulder height down to seating level, with the intention that the public use the taller ones to lean against whilst in conversation and the smaller works to sit on.
Virtual World
This piece by artists Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell is a digitally controlled neon sculpture featuring sixty "internet country codes". Virtual World is an animated poetry exploring the "multi-channel" experience of media, data and information that constantly flows around us, exploring how the countries referred to by the domains, real places in themselves, are reduced to abbreviated lexical and linguistic signs existing everywhere and nowhere as part of the process by which we engage with the digital world.
