Transactions
MFA Thesis Exhibition
The works in Transactions, and those leading up to them, are an entry point into a large, complex, potentially never-ending dialog about the nature of space, time, behavior, and language. My work enters this dialog through looking at how time and space can be visualized simultaneously, for the purpose of investigating the structure of physical actions over time. These structures are then able to provide information about reality which would be otherwise hidden from us. I do not attempt to redefine time, but rather reconsider experience, language and memory by specifically considering time as a dimension of reality, with equal importance to the spatial dimensions. Following both scientific and art-historical precedent, I am using the medium of my generation (digital information) to create a tool for representing reality in a manner we cannot perceive by default. I do not claim to have performed any scientific study using this tool, nor that it is adequate for such a task, but I do recognize the importance of past experiments on our current understanding of time and reality, and it is my hope to continue this dialog in a meaningful way. The visual representations and interactive experiences included in Transactions are the starting point of an experimental investigation of the myriad disciplines involved in this dialog.Using a scientific approach, we can progress this dialog incrementally via brute force, which is often necessary to develop or refine ideas. Experimental artistic endeavors, however, also provide significant fuel to power cultural evolution. By creating experiences or using concepts which can only be related directly by experience, or indirectly by a mashup of current inadequate language, artists provide the necessity for a new and hopefully more truthful way of describing reality. Is this not the flip-side of the same coin as the scientific endeavor? An artist points to experience and proclaims its existence, provoking language to respond by adapting adequately. This is my aim with Transactions: to show the structure of our experience, and proclaim its existence without the proper language to do so.
MFA Thesis Exhibition
The works in Transactions, and those leading up to them, are an entry point into a large, complex, potentially never-ending dialog about the nature of space, time, behavior, and language. My work enters this dialog through looking at how time and space can be visualized simultaneously, for the purpose of investigating the structure of physical actions over time. These structures are then able to provide information about reality which would be otherwise hidden from us. I do not attempt to redefine time, but rather reconsider experience, language and memory by specifically considering time as a dimension of reality, with equal importance to the spatial dimensions. Following both scientific and art-historical precedent, I am using the medium of my generation (digital information) to create a tool for representing reality in a manner we cannot perceive by default. I do not claim to have performed any scientific study using this tool, nor that it is adequate for such a task, but I do recognize the importance of past experiments on our current understanding of time and reality, and it is my hope to continue this dialog in a meaningful way. The visual representations and interactive experiences included in Transactions are the starting point of an experimental investigation of the myriad disciplines involved in this dialog.Using a scientific approach, we can progress this dialog incrementally via brute force, which is often necessary to develop or refine ideas. Experimental artistic endeavors, however, also provide significant fuel to power cultural evolution. By creating experiences or using concepts which can only be related directly by experience, or indirectly by a mashup of current inadequate language, artists provide the necessity for a new and hopefully more truthful way of describing reality. Is this not the flip-side of the same coin as the scientific endeavor? An artist points to experience and proclaims its existence, provoking language to respond by adapting adequately. This is my aim with Transactions: to show the structure of our experience, and proclaim its existence without the proper language to do so.
Bow
Cartwheels
Catch
Fight
Handshake
Swing Yer Partner
Embrace
Chronoscape
Dynamism of a Dog in a Wheelchair
