s Meniscus Web events, including Elective Physiognomies, Elastic Masculinities, and Instant Eugenics, explore ideas relating to “the body, identity, and subjectivity".Typically the viewer is confronted by an image, for example, of a face—and asked to make value judgments about the form.His Java applets then dynamically transform the face. The judgments sometimes affect what subsequent viewers will see.
On a deeper level, Tonkin seeks to comment on culturally defined norms about appearance and behavior and their ultimate manifestation in eugenics and genetic engineering.