stuttering
Paddy’s favorite piece of mine is now on YouTube. See the work in action, stuttering (also below), or watch a video with voiceover of me telling what it’s all about….
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Scenic Route, 2007
Got some pix up on a flickr set of some new friends and their work from the “Organic Motion: Kinetic and Interactive Sculpture” 2-week workshop at the Anderson Ranch out by the Rockies, Colorado. A fun time, and I hope to make it back. Also, click below for a li’l YouTube video of my first kinetic sculpture (I welded! I forged! I chopped and sanded and shaped and worked with motors, gears, drives, shafts, etc!!! Woot!), titled per this blog post…. I probably won’t shoot to push it into a gallery, but many of the ideas brooding, and skills I’ve gathered, certainly will….
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performative digital prints
I went and updated the Compressionism documentation video a bit, and put it up on YouTube. These are performative prints made by strapping on a scanner, computer and battery pack, then traversing the landscape – sometimes printing digitally, other times transforming the images with hand-made / traditional techniques. The video shows some work, and how it was made, from my Call and Response solo show earlier this year; new digital work is now showing at Haydn Shaughnessy, and here are some new prints (both digital and traditional) I just finished producing for Art on Paper Gallery (Johannesburg).
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organic motion
Am over in Aspen, Colorado at the Anderson Ranch doing a 2-week workshop / residency by the above title (basically kinetic sculpture), with Mark Koven and Anat Pollack (and special guest Jim Campbell next week). Didn’t really know what to expect, but the place is gorgeous and the other workshoppers are amazing (will give links to sites as I have time to find them). Anderson is def a place to consider…. Pics up when we actually make anything! -n
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lambda print on metallic paper, 380 x 1080 mm (with small white border)
Just finishing up at the Frans Masereel, having completed 5 new digital and 6 new hand-made Compressionist prints (the latter inspired by the former, made by performances with scanners) for Art on Paper Gallery in Johannesburg (their site is finally up, content forthcoming). Check out the prints and some process pics here.
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Frans Masereel Centre residency
litho stone in progress, piece will be 1080 x 380 mm
Am on residence at the Frans Masereel Centre in Belgium at the moment, working on a new series that is being printed by printmaker and artist Zhane Warren, and published by Art on Paper Gallery (Johannesburg). It’s an extension of my Compressionist works, and my last solo show at AOP, Call and Response.
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. Later pieces in the series further transform details of these prints into hand-made art objects: etchings, engravings, aquatints, planographs, carborundum, monotype and more.
Compressionism is an exploration of media and perception, a transfiguration in time and seeing.
I’ve done some new performative scans since my show with Haydn Shaughnessy (these will be printed on metallic paper through photographic processes), and am amidst working in stone litho, silk screen, wood cut and dry point. We’re playing up the bands of light and color that Brenton Maart remarked on in Art South Africa, a relic of the digital scanning performances, by creating manufactured spaces on our stones and screens. Will post links to images of the finished works in a little over a week!
LINK: the flickr set in progress :)