Flat Ontology

A cool post on flat ontology.

"Flat ontology signifies an ontology in which there is only one ontological “type”: individuals...a flat ontology is an ontology that refuses to undermine or overmine objects." - Levi R. Bryant

Electronic Data Free: Statement of Intent V.2

Electronic Data Free began as an experiment in voluntarily limiting my use of digital media, which was my medium of choice. I attempted to restrict myself from electronic data
altogether. In turn, my artist practice came to rely on my physical interactions with objects, while building upon previous themes in my work related to perception and truth.

The texture rubbings you see here allow me to unite both my mind and my body. By doing the rubbings, I experience these objects physically and perceptually. No longer am I a mere observer of things but I must experience, in my body, how objects exist. In 1000 Pennies where I perform rubbings of one-thousand pennies in a book, I can feel the resulting object
in my body after this performance since my arms, wrists, and shoulders are sore. By
interacting with an object in this way, it becomes more than something I am touching.
The object comes to be something that I feel within my body, an experience I was largely unaware of until this investigation.

Hence, this collection of videos and artist books explores the interconnectivity between objects, mind, and body.

Solo Exhibition: Electronic Data Free

What I think I'm doing

With my new work, a mish-mash of artist books, frottage, analog processes, texture transfers, video documentation that becomes the artwork, reading literary theory, reading blogs, organic reproductions, investigating scale, electronic data free.

All good artists play critical games. I mean that we use cultural & social expectations to frame something (a condition, an idea, an object) slightly (or maybe a lot) out of context. The reward for this is to experience a unique condition that one wouldn't encounter otherwise.

What game am I playing?

I don't know yet. Something to do with climaxes, limited transfers, completion, the idea of textures, embodying an object, and memory of tactility.

Random Access

Book are random access - Ian Bogost

A present for me...

My next big purchase will be a cellphone that will let me browse the internet (quickly and efficiently) :).

Wood and Metal

Field in B & W

New Work: Artist Books, Frottage

Artist Books: Objects

Met with bookbinder Reg Beatty today and chatted about some fantastic ideas re: objects. Thus, I am super inspired to post to my blog again.

Some things to keep in mind and look up:

Object-Oriented Ontology
Speculative Realism
HYPER OBJECTS

Blogs to check out:
http://www.bogost.com/
http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/

For future reference:

Always relate things to the bigger picture.

object fetish

function + distribution + fetishization

Transforming an object/idea through widespread distribution requires a level of fetishization.

Fetish replaces authenticity.

Next Project:

Antagonism, auras. Tangible/intangible?

Keep it simple with presence.

Iconoclasm

Destruction by one culture the imagery of another.


.... censorship?

Martin C Herbst: Brain 2

Photograph of installation by Martin C. Herbst.
http://www.cuttsgallery.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=60

Fractals

A fractal often has the following features:^[3]

• It has a fine structure at arbitrarily small scales.
• It is too irregular to be easily described in traditional Euclidean geometric language.
• It is self-similar (at least approximately or stochastically).
• It has a Hausdorff dimension which is greater than its topological dimension (although this requirement is not met by space-filling curves such as the Hilbert curve).^[4]
• It has a simple and recursive definition.

New crops.

Things I've learned.

A solid curatorial project takes at least 6 months.

an installation

an installation that is meant to be photographed.

wip: boxes

New Work!

gesture

"explore the persistence of human gesture even when isolated from intent"

http://hafny.org/exhibitions/groupshow/group-show-35

Copies

Copies are never the same.

Breaking blog haitus

I believe this has been the longest break between posts in quite a few months. To break my blogging fast, I have this quote from the FloatingSheep Blog:

"The virtual sphere offers voice to some, but ultimately still leaves out many important stories and representations."

So where should we go when we step away from our computers and the internet?
To what extent can the internet be the social-leveler that it appears to be?

Flatland: Exhibition Proposal

Flatland (working title)

A Conceptual Exploration in the 'Either/Or' Series

Curatorial Statement by Selena L. Lee

Our generation is undergoing a unique visual journey. Diverting from a history of objects that exist in only the here and now, we have welcomed the notion of reproducibility in regards to images and artworks. More recently, the environment of digital media offers a multitude of imagery that is held in an intermediate space. Screen-based imagery offers a reality that is neither in this tactile world nor is it completely imaginary. Even if these images have a representation in the physical realm – via hard drives or monitors – it is in our psyche that they find their manifestation.

Flatland focuses on this process of psychological imprinting and incorporates works of a two dimensional nature. This exhibition does not emphasize the limitations of each planar medium within the show. By incorporating prints, photographs, screen-based work as well as paintings, Flatland focuses on the transformation of the two-dimensional surface. The perceptual transformation of the flat surface is two-fold; it emerges first from the artist and then manifests itself perceptually in the viewer. Hence, this exhibition investigates how all images exist in two spaces; with one manifestation grounded in the physical world and one within the individual.

This exhibition acts as an inquiry of perception; it is through interpretation that

flat works finds its merit. With Flatland we move beyond the isolated image and explore the subjective relationships between the viewer and viewed object, as well as the physical presence of two-dimensional media.

Expressing Concept in Practice

Summary:

Flatland is intended to be an ongoing inquiry regarding the existence of two-dimensional artwork in physical space. The exhibition will be presented in the main space of Gallery 1313, as well as on an online blog, and in a printed catalogue. These varying forms of presentation act as a reference to the many ways of seeing flat media. The exhibition will consist of 8-10 artists experimenting with the relationships between flat media, the viewer, and the physical space of the object.

Installation:

This planar investigation will address the gallery space itself as a collection of planes. We will focus on breaking free of the rule for planar work to be hung in a gallery space along a centre line, and instead consider the plane-to-plane installation of exhibited works as a three-dimensional intervention. Thus, Flatland will consider the cross sections created in regards to placing planar works in a three-dimensional space. In turn we will experiment with alternative hanging methods of flat works, such as suspending work from the ceiling, placing works on the floor, or installing work that is parallel to the floor.

Artists will be responsible for the installation of their own work. We will be using electronic equipment (ie. monitors). It is likely that sound will be incorporated in the screen-based works. If sound is a part of an artwork, speakers will be used if it does not disrupt other works. Otherwise, sound will be heard through headphones. In the event that this technology is incorporated in a work, the artist will be responsible for providing the equipment. However, any support from 1313 would be greatly appreciated if there equipment is available to borrow.

vibration and value

"When two colours are very close in value, a glowing effect occurs."

A quote from Graphic Design: The New Basics by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips.

i didn't paint this - but it looked fab on the internet

New digi-comp

speculations on china vs. india

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1974028,00.html

China Thwarts Google's Detour

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1974749,00.html

Google tries to get around Chinese web censorship with no luck.

Google to exit from China

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1973410,00.html

after eugene atget

Playing with data restructuring.

recent show and curatorial project

why do we collect data?

digital archives, blogs, online journals, hoarding digital images: why do we do this?

perhaps this happens out of politics and democracy: somewhere i heard the saying 'to write history is to control the world'. With widespread systems of archiving, who is writing history?

atomization

atomization of society due to technology. yay or nay?

synesthesia

Synesthesia and the psychological or structural frame.

Also, how does the digital interface frame art?

New Images (WIP)

My thoughts:

mediation, displacement, and the screen as a lens

visual communication vs. visual expression

Visual communication does not equate to visual expression and vice versa.

I think this is related to the difference between mimesis and digesis.

My idea has something to do with the fact that communication is always for someone other than me (right now), but expression has more layers than the message being communicated.

Quote: Jim Jarmusch

showing again: Gallery 1313

New Shoots, New Show

Also, I've been thinking of modelling data after prose-fiction, doing more photograms and storytelling.

Recent Exhibition: Othersides at Eleanor Winters Gallery

Some photos of my work shown n group exhibition titled Othersides, featuring work by myself and Mark Francis. As of now, I only have photos of my work up.

Also here is a video of the work titled Red Rain, B-Sides and Tongue that imitates how the images are shown in three digital picture frames.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBZd7IUP6n0

Symbol Design: Optics?

For my design appreciation class, a symbol for the word 'optics'.