Posts Tagged ‘Art Gallery’

Gallery Neonascent

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

Flickr Set Example

I have received a College of Fine Arts’ Students’ Association grant with which to setup an online emergent art gallery. Here’s a snip from my proposal to give you an idea of what it is:

The aim of the project is to set up an online gallery/exhibition platform for emerging digital and interactive artworks. It is intended to act as a showcase for such works, as well as providing a forum for related discussion. The name “neonascent�? has been chosen for the gallery, being both a synonym for “newborn�? – sympathetic to the type of artwork to be featured – and “neon ascent�? – a toung-in-cheek evocation of glam sci-fi.

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…Promotion will involve an email campaign directed at Fine arts mailing lists and academic staff, postering appropriate areas, and finally holding a quasi-opening for the gallery and its exhibitions.

Of course the opening is essential for any gallery, regardless of whether it is online or not! :)

I’ve created a photoset on Flickr for related images, but at the moment it’s just got me hamming it up for a faux-official giant cheque giving ceremony.

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Sculpture: Neonascent Babies

Saturday, November 5th, 2005

Flickr Set Example

This little guy is the prototype for organic-looking latex “creatures” that plug into any computer via USB, and play and frollic with each other online. Think Tomogochi, then think a persistent online world in which they interact, using the modelled behaviour system of Boids (simulating the flocking behaviour of birds and fish). The name, Neonascent, is also the title of an online emergent art gallery I’m in the process of creating, and comes from the conjoining of Neo ( New; recent), and nascent (Coming into existence; emerging).

It may look a little primordial and far removed from an exciting creature dancing around, but that is the point. The physical “body” of the creature is intended to resemble a pre-stage creature; foetus or larvae/maggot. The beauty of the creature come once it has transcended its immediate body and is interacting on another level. This is not to say, similar to many SciFi conceptions of “virtual reality”, that it is an altogether seperate world or existence. The two are invariable and essentially connected through, for example, Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of embodied perception.

On the tech side, the creatures self-affirm through USB via a PIC chip and RS232-USB chip. I’ve been having alot of fun doing Assembler level implementation of serial communications functions. It’s very hardcore and geeky, but at the same time incredibly beautiful – like building a sculpture by gluing grains of sand together one at a time.

More picture of the prototype creature are on Flickr.

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Exhibitions

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

Friday was a big day for applications!
Was involved in two proposals for exhibitions at Kudos gallery, as well as an application for GAS (Grants, Awards and Sponsorship) for an online emergent art gallery. Please keep your fingers crossed for all three! :)

Details of the exhibitions are as follows:

  • “Material Satisfaction” – A showcase exhibition for the whole 2nd year Sculpture, Performance, and Installation group. I’ve uploaded both the Conceptual proposal (Adobe PDF) and the Artists’ statements (Adobe PDF). Some may be interested to check out my statement for an idea of the conceptual side of things. I have also included annotation on a few of the artist’s statements.
  • Biopolitics Exhibition – This focusses on the intersection of nature and technology, whether taken literally or in terms of Foucault’s understanding of techniques of biopolitical control. Should be exciting, and promisses to be very interesting!

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