nichola feldman-kiss, a graduate of California Institute of the Arts, is a conceptual artist researching body, gaze and identity. Among her digital, analogue, and performance works is the mean body database, an extensive database of self referential surface anthropometry studies. Since 2001, she has produced figurative works from the mean body database that re-imagine the body through computer aided design and manufacturing technologies. Using three-dimensional whole body scans, a digital transparency, and a light box, she has sought to achieve shapes (105x105x20cm), like the one shown here, reducing them to the most minimal bodily attributes so that, while recognizable, they have no specific referent. They recall the body without indicating it.

Her fascination with the disturbing and uncanny aspects of new medical technologies for producing the human body and hybrid life forms is expressed in the chimaera set. First displayed as a part of the exhibition mean body, the chimaera set are a collection of composite figures created from two or more data sets derived from full body scans. feldman-kiss' studio is located in Ottawa, Canada.