 Monica Ross _88.gif) -
is now working with interactive media and CD roms. Monica has
taught for several years at Central Saint Martins and is currently
a Research Fellow of Fine Art at the University of Newcastle. She
recently launched her book Valentine and is due this autumn
to present her latest work Iris, a CD Rom.Ross will present her book Valentine, produced by the Milch Gallery, London with the financial assistance of The Arts Council of England. It is a bookwork developed from a series of performances which took place between 1994-1998. The book has an extensive inventory which has been contributed by various people over time. - Online review of Valentine.  She will also present a new work, Act of Love(Norwegian translation) where for several hours she will copy out, into the virtual space of computer files Walter Benjamins famous essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. She will be copying a translation in Norwegian, a language she has no knowledge of, using a wacom pad. Act of Love will accumulate into a series of computer scripts as a drawing on the gallery wall. During the performance, print outs of the transcription in progress will be available for visitors to take away and a cd- rom containing documents from the entire activity will be available during the remaining period of the Lovesick exhibition. 
But aside from the function of the copy as a method of reproduction, a method of study and a source of solution to formal problems ... there are other reasons for making copies. Perhaps the most profound is the desire to pay homage ... to copy as an act of love. - Michael Ayrton 
 ... Related material: http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/monica.ross/
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