There’s some newly updated Compressionist documentation on Compressionism.net. Latest additions to the video reflect, both, some of the performative aspects of the series, and the current hand-made editions; the latter are being created with the help of printmaker Jillian Ross at David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg. For those who have not been to the site in a while, the text has also been updated site-wide, and I am continually uploading new images.
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Compressionism is a "digital performance and analog archive.” I traverse bodies, spaces and objects with my scanner face, while its head is in motion. After being Compressed into digital images the size of a small sheet of paper, the files are then stretched, cropped and colored by hand, then printed as editioned, archival works. The latest pieces in the series further transform details of these prints into hand-made art objects: etchings, engravings, aquatints, lithographs, spit bites and more.
Compressionism is an exploration of media and perception, a transfiguration in time and seeing.
Thanks also to Niall and Lungi @ Krut for their tireless efforts on this project.
Please watch callandresponse.co.za for updates on my January ’07 exhibition @ Art on Paper, Joburg.
