Titled: earth, wind and fire, true colors and Johannesburg Boogie Woogie, respectively. Click for larger images, details and sizes. Note web colors are more than slightly dulled. moCo (mobile Compressionism) is going well…
This just makes me smile: ‘action Jackson’ (Compressionist scanner / appendage) strapped onto my bling bling of a bike, ready to hit Johannesburg, South Africa (click for larger image).
Compressionism is a digital performance and analog archive. In the current studies, I compress bodies, spaces and objects by traversing their surfaces with an image scanner, along varying 3-dimensional paths – literally, I glide, run, hover and swoop across windows, trees, or lilies while the scanner head is in motion. The resulting digital images, which are transfigured down to the size of a small piece of paper, are then re-stretched to their original size, sometimes cropped or colorized. The final prints ask us to ‘look again’ at the relations between subjects, objects, actions and perceptions.
more at Compressionism.net
Been busy all day working on the implicit body full chapter with Nicole (yes, world, that’s a new URL!). Wow, although academic writing is exciting and exhilarating, I sometimes forget how draining and exhausting it can be. Bit by bit….
In other news, MacFormat Magazine has decided to do a li’l back-page feature on me and Compressionism, with full color pix and a bit on the series. Major geek points for me! That’ll be in issue number 168 or 169, so out in the UK in about 3 months, 5 months to get to South Africa (that’s a guess). While I’m on the mememe and mymymy press kick, the next NY Arts Magazine, which also as a feature on yours truly, should be out in the next week or so, and apparently Ralph Borland will be writing next month’s Artthrob Artbio on, you guessed it, me.
It’s all fits and starts, and I’m having a good month, but I’m guessing it’s just karma for my blogging and SAartsEmerging efforts, and since nobody wrote about my and Marcus’ last duo show….
Almost forgot! Christo and I have been officially approved to start "The Upgrade! Joburg." More on that, here. Watch this space for when our monthly meetings start.
The new text, images and video are up at Compressionism.net. I think the most exciting bit is probably the new video, with some great footage of "action Jackson" and my Compression methods and images – thanks to Franci Cronje, Nicole Ridgway, Lara Rivera and Colleen Alborough. "action" is the new custom-made and fully portable appendage for 360-degree Compressionist scans, and there’s a great stop-frame of him from all angles.
Compressionism is a digital performance and analog archive. In the current studies, I compress bodies, spaces and objects by traversing their surfaces with an image scanner, along varying 3-dimensional paths – literally, I glide, run, hover and swoop across windows, trees, or lilies while the scanner head is in motion. The resulting digital images, which are transfigured down to the size of a small piece of paper, are then re-stretched to their original size, sometimes cropped or colorized. The final prints ask us to ‘look again’ at the relations between subjects, objects, actions and perceptions.
related: thanks to Daniel Hirschmann for pointing me to this Boing Boing post about Mike Golembewski’s scanner photography (currently down from linkage overload; mirrored at http://www.findacomputerguy.com/scannerphotography.com/index.html). Basically, he’s turned his scanner into a (very) large format pinhole camera – beautiful stuff!
So, I have finally joined the flickr craze, and started by uploading a handful of images with "action Jackson" – the new custom-made and fully portable appendage for 360-degree Compressionist scans… Will post the latest finished works (as well as all new documentation, text, etc, on compressionism.net) in the next few days. They’re hot…
In the meanwhile, you can check out the aforementioned documentation images with the new "humbnails and links" flickr feature in my sidebar. Woot!
Well, Johannesburg has all but shut down, and the galleries (and artists) are all pretty much on holiday until a few weeks into the new year. I’m catching up on personal admin, working on some Compressionist projects (working towards another Outlet solo show of new works, some time in February), writing a collaborative chapter for a Cybercultures book with Nicole Ridgway (the implicit body), launching a new site and reading a whole lot of blogs and news.
So, without further ado, new to the blogroll:
dvBlog: mostly the NYC and rhizomatic net.art scenesters, but featuring some great video art shorts from all over the world. sorenson3 compressed, so small and hi-quality for the video it is.
what am i doing with my life?: marisa olson, rhizome’s editor and curator at large, has a fun blog about her own stuff, and some of the other goings-on in SF and NYC.
art fag city: simply the best and bitchiest blog on the contemporary and digital art-based galleries in chelsea.
justine larbalestier and scott westerfeld blogs: two hot YA (young adult) Fiction (one of my newfound pleasures in life) writers that live between NYC and Sydney. They are friends, so I am biased, but they are super cool and their books are great reads. They have great taste in food, television, literature, etc, and have movies and awards both behind, and coming up, for their books. Keep up to date on all things good in the world by reading their regular rants.
