For some time, artist Yasmin Heisler has been working with the poetic form and work that investigates contemporary notions of ‘the page’. The title of this series, in-word, literally refers to work that has been generated within the basic Microsoft Word for Windows Program.

As new technologies increasingly redesign our parameters of communication, she has been using the Word program (which was one of the earliest programs to imitate the physical page) to explore notions of subjectivity, temporality, art and screen culture. 

Repeating letters and words seems to drag time into a continual present, making and unmaking the syntax to challenge assumed linear qualities of language. Heisler explores the virtual page as an avenue to consider both a sense of intimacy and of automation that circumscribe our engagement with digital writing platforms.

Yasmin Heisler is a Melbourne-based artist. She completed a Masters in Visual Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1999. She has exhibited using a range of mediums including photography, video, sound and text. Her poetry has appeared in Rabbit, Cordite, VLAK and Flash Cove. She has also self-published two artist books in relation to her exhibitions, this day and formed in air. 

Supported by Yarra City Arts and Yarra Libraries.