Synthetic Corpo-Reality
Synthetic Corpo-Reality is inspired by the extended artwork of Martina Menegon who explores issues of the contemporary self alongside its synthetic corpo-reality. This exhibition examines the work by international artists who have chosen the body as a vessel for the realization of their artistic goals. There is a new more encompassing definition of “sculpture art” in the digital age or post-digital age. Artists using computers to create images of the body do so in a variety of digital mediums including photography, video, multi channel animations, 3D printer scans, sketch-fab, GIFs, AI softwares, augmented reality, 360 experiences and virtual reality.
For this show I create La Vita Nova, an immersive environment and soundscape in Mozilla Hubs.
when i was 46 it was the year after a deep depression. the year before I had learned about choosing. when i turned 46 i learned what it was to have chosen. I would go to a park and recite epic poetry to now one. X.L.V.I. was the year I read Dante, in The Vita Nova, he writes about reconstructing his life around love. about meeting his Beatirice, and her death, and about creation. On my 46th birthday I forgave myself. I made two 3d scans to mark the occasion. Now why do i bring this back, now when I am 49? I feel I have completed the cycle that began then. when i look back at the timeline, i see a clear line that began right then, with my choosing a new life, a life that i am living right now. At 46, choosing to write incipit vita nova in ink at the top of a new sketchbook.The decision to make two scans of myself, celebrating alone on my birthday, holding a single white rose and a day later offering myself the entire bouquet. In this particular realtime rendering of these scans I place those 2 scans in a crossroads of ethereal hallways. Also present are two other scans made as a basis for a project about Mary Magdalene… these have nothing to do with the main narrative here or choosing or my turning 46. but, they do show danger, crossing and covering my choice like a death card in tarot. In these dark hallways you hear me reciting Dante from vita nova and the opening lines of inferno. i hope my italian accent isn’t too offensive. there are also a few lines from the sketchbook of that year. the closer you get to any of the statues the more they dissolve away. take from that what you will.
Curated by Julie Walsh for MEET Digital Arts Center, Milan
https://www.meetcenter.it/en/synthetic-corpo-reality-exhibition/
Group show with:
Zhou Xiaohu (Shanghai)
Miao Xiaochun (Beijing/Berlin)
Martina Menegon(Vienna/Italy)
Claudia Hart (New York/Chicago)
Tim Deussen (Berlin)
Sophie Kahn (New York/Australia)
Carla Gannis (New York)
Nancy Baker Cahill (Los Angeles)
Rebecca Allen(Los Angeles)
Tamiko Thiel (Munich/America)
Auriea Harvey (Rome)
The Archive To Come
The Archive to Come
Telematic Media Arts presents The Archive to Come
An exhibition of short, time-based works
On-line, In Social VR, and In the Gallery
October 22nd - December 17th, 2020
https://hubs.mozilla.com/dAGxCsm/archive-of-the-archive-to-come-vr-gallery
My short video clip “Islanders” was on view
https://www.tttelematiccc.com/history-conflict-and-social-justice
This work is of a 3D scan made in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. “Facial casts of Nias islanders JP Kleiweg de Zwaan 1910”, an installation of early 20th century life casts.
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/NG-C-2012-3-11
I never stop wondering who these people were. What is so appealing about broken things? My 3D capture was done in less than ideal circumstances, leading to the broken nature of the model. I attempt to contemplate something lost to time. Impressions of forms taken, better whole than broken... and yet. The video capture is me playing with the sunlight I’ve set up in my 3d program, complete with clicks and drags....
Fauna at UNTITLED art fair with bitforms gallery
Fauna, 2018
3d printed plaster and bronze, clay, natural fossil, paint
dimensions: 169cm-w\200cm-h\143cm-d
In the Kingdom No.19
AR Sculpture / Physical Sculpture - at ProjectProject gallery Omaha
Example No.22
A lecture/performance and exhibition for the Kasseler Dokfest 2018
Exhibition of 3D printworks: 13-18 Nov, Lecture: 15 Nov
Location: BALi Kinos Kulturbahnhof
DokfestProgramAuriea.pdf
Example No.22 Installation Images
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Minorinth
VR Labyrith exploration, for a 4x4 meter environment, 2017
Daedal
BY A. E. STALLINGS
To build a labyrinth it takes
A twisted mind, a puzzled art,
A fractal branching of mistakes.
Drag out the shovels and the rakes,
The spirit level, sacred chart.
To build a labyrinth it takes
Shadows, stones, a way that snakes
And ladders to its shaky start;
An average mazing of mistakes,
The kind that everybody makes,
Set random intervals apart.
To build a labyrinth it takes
Dead ends that seem like lucky breaks,
The paths of bats that weave and dart
Through limestone caverns of mistakes.
The shaken Etch A Sketch awakes
A lost child buried in its heart.
To build a labyrinth it takes
Some good intentions, some mistakes.