Aspect: The Chronicle of New Media Art
Volume 12: Vital presents nine artists exploring that which is essential, grave, indispensable, and/or critical to existence. Mirroring preconceived notions of reality, these works re-imagine new deities, investigate animal nature and human desire, contemplate the body vs. the psyche, meditate on the circular nature of our existence, and in one case force us to witness the final minutes of life. We confront our own profound mortality, experience fear and displacement within a technological landscape, and consider the sustaining reciprocal relationship of artist and gallery.
- 9-11/9-11 by Mel Chin w/ commentary by Ute Meta Bauer
- Liberation of the Paranoid World; Gargoyling; Pressing the Vessel by Goatsilk w/ commentary by Ricardo de Mambro Santos
- Primate Cinema by Rachel Mayeri w/ commentary by Meredith Tromble
- Sequence of Good Intentions by Park McArthur w/ commentary by Michael O’Malley
- Bathyscape by Andrew Mowbray w/ commentary by Matthew Nash
- Anemophilous Formula for Computer Art by Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy w/ commentary by Eduardo Navas
- Freund Hein by Elisabeth Smolarz w/ commentary by Angelique Campens
- Polar Bear God by Deke Weaver w/ commentary by Una Chaudhuri
- excerpts from Untitled (Red); Untitled (Blue); Tell Me; Ned Talking by Suara Welitoff w/ commentary by Andrew Witkin
Anemophilous Formula for Computer Art by Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy
custom software
2007
Inspired by Jim Campbell’s Formula for Computer Art and Tallahassee’s annual sea of tree pollen, Mundy and Dietrick created a data-based animation referencing new forms of cross-pollination and re-use. Made to be meditative and aesthetically pleasing, the format parodies computer art that simply crunches numbers to create useless forms. The diligently recorded data of the National Allergy Board guides the animation down a predictable path and stands in stark contrast to the chaos of everyday life. The project calls into question our obsession with mapping nature, as if grasping its sublimity would be essential to finding lifelong satisfaction.
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