Lee Boroson, 1998
Shih Chieh Huang, 2000s (exact date unknown)
sketch_a7 notes
A few notes on the previous "sketch"--not really a sketch, more of a finished "internet painting." A photo of a Technics turntable platter-edge is "sampled" and repeated in MSPaint to make an allover pattern. I didn't want to use Photoshop--it was important to struggle with it so it had a rough, patched together quality. There is a lot of extraneous cutting and pasting and blending at the pixel level so the metallic surface would become more organic, like tree bark or reptile skin or something. The "foreground" imagery is two HTML pieces by Chris Ashley that were damaged by being reproduced incorrectly in the Bloglines RSS reader. The red triangle pattern reads like a monogram on a shirt front and could be frames of a breaking or mending heart, depending on whether you read it from top or bottom. The blue pattern was copied, stretched, and pasted several times to make columns in a vague counter-rhythm to the turntable texture.
Digital Political Time Lapse Reception
Last night attended the mid-show opening party for Digital Political Time Lapse at LIU in Brooklyn, curated by Aron Namenwirth. The glass walled gallery in the LIU Humanities bldg is striking, kind of a Farnsworth House for art with folding tables for all the gear. It's an ideal space for video pieces, which the show mostly consisted of. I especially liked William Stone's Brion Gysin-like video cut up of a Bush State of the Union speech--from 2003, I think, the height of Dear Leader's inflated arrogance. The video mostly consists of him saying plural nouns cut from the speech ("terrorists," "families," "minorities"...), which emphasizes his penchant for loud sibilants. Later, the cuts became just the "SSS"s at the ends of the words so he seemed to be hissing like a snake with that same smug look on his face. While the sycophants all around him applauded. Man, four years and a complete loss of credibility later and the sycophants are still being sycophantic. I guess when something gets to be a habit...
Photos of the exhibit (and opening) are on Namenwirth's blog.
Update: The exhibit has been extended to Oct. 31.