by Nicole Gratiot Stöber
“The erotics of machined surfaces and smooth shapes are capitalised on in pieces designed to ligth up from within when touched and held. Stöber‘s work encourages an interactivity at odds with much jewelery designed to be admired from a distance. Stöber privileges contact over scopophilia. The body responds to the jewellery and the jewellery responds to the body.[…] The ligth fades gradually when the contact is broken. Stöber’s work regards technology benignly, as a medium for comunication and self expression. Transmitters and information interfaces operate without male gendered buttons.” ( Gilhooley and Costin, 1997, p.12 )
