Patricia Piccinini (born in 1965 in Sierra Leone) is an artist who resides in Melbourne, Australia and produces a wide range of works including computer-based digital photos, video works using three-dimensional computer graphics, interactive installation works and CD-ROM.

Her work to be displayed at ICC is titled "Plasticology" (1997), a term coined from plastic and ecology. As this title indicates, it is an installation composed of artificial trees generated on 50 monitor screens by three-dimensional computer graphics, with the display space assumed to be an artificial forest.

Piccinini's work, contrastive concepts such as "natural" versus "artificial" and "real" versus "illusory" are placed side by side or one displaced by another depending on the type of media used. Her work is an experiment designed to examine closely the "artificial" which may displace or has already displaced the "natural" with the progress of technology. Her work is also a device for eliciting response from viewers. Piccinini does not take sides with either the natural or the artificial. It is up to you to judge whether to accept or reject displacement of the natural by the artificial.