CURATOR’S PERSPECTIVE Tamara Joy, Chief Curator, MoAS It’s a pleasure to finally come to the opening of Stephen’s, Shoosty Bugs, An Art Infestation . I want to echo Tabitha’s thanks to all of my colleagues. We could not do this without each other. So, thank you all my friends and colleagues, and welcome, Ste - phen Shooster and his wife Diane and the family. I’ve met a one of the daughters and I’m going to learn the other names, soon. Welcome, It’s pleasure to have you all here. We’ve been working with Stephen for more than a year on dis - cussing and planning the show. In the beginning, the staff had been formulating an idea of bugs everywhere in the museum, in a few different, various ways. And as Tabitha mentioned, during these discussions, Zach and Tabitha had already seen some of Stephen’s work. I think everybody just said, you know, this is it. This is the thing the key that will hold it all together, Shoosty Bugs . I was first introduced to Shoosty Bugs by Zach. I don’t know where he got it, but he showed it to us and it’s a big beautiful computer bug, The Integrated Goliath CPU . You will meet him in the gallery later. What intrigued me was this high-tech digitally created image was using silk as a canvas. I’m a textile person, so, you know, that hooked me right away. Just the idea of using this work to integrate science and art—that’s perfect for us. And in Shoosty Bugs , we were able to ask questions like, How do we embrace technology and stay connected to the natural world? Stephen embraces inspiration from all media and he com - munes with AI, but those building blocks, those old materials, silk, for example resonates with me.
Tamara Joy, Chief Curator, MoAS
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