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  • Changes of State -
    ... the arrangements were changed, after discussions with the decorator and owner. At night we would take the switches out, to reduce the chances of the PWD (public works department, which is on the lookout for electrical violations) finding them. Pressing...
  • ... reciprocal space and generates new images using certain filters. The result is a double metamorphosis since the filters reduce the amount of data captured in the original image, from which the software then generates a new image. The new image is...
  • ... to destruction, removal or appropriation on the part of who wanted these works (a toi/for you). I have never considered reducing these objects to more "manageable" or "handier" sizes. I elaborated those structures in compliance with their 'vocational'...
  • ...the importance of relationships within a community of organisms, “BichEden: Folds” probes edges that meet and ‘fold’ (diminish, reduce, withdraw) and ‘unfold’ (increase, grow) like an origami, driven by a set of questions related to food web energy flows: What are the...
  • ... up to the present-day. The major components were firstly a sculpture garden of replicas of revolutionary monuments, all reduced to one size, that when touched would play their respective revolutionary songs. Then secondly a group of coin-operated...
  • ...Born 1968 in Redondo Beach, California (USA); 1986-1987 studied at Marymount College, Palos Verdes, CA; 1987-1991 studied at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA. Aitken lives and works in Los Angeles (USA). Aitken belongs to a generation of artist that...
  • William Kentridge -
    ... but his most indelible contribution is in animated film. Kentridge makes large-scale charcoal drawings that he erases and redraws continually, adding new elements or transforming one subject into a very different other, filming each subtle shift to...
  • Traces -
    ... HMD (Head Mounted Display) VR dissects the body, privileging visuality to the exclusion of bodily senses. The body is reduced to a single Cartesian point, the body is checked at the door. http://www.ace.uci.edu/penny/works/traces/Tracescode.html
  • ... to do with the status of the image in our process of getting a grasp on this world. The rawest and most brutal realities are reduced to an emotional superficiality in our perception. Acquisition, evaluation and understanding of the world constitute a process...
  • ... was sir lent and unimposing. A touchscreen tree was approached as a kiosk with a large monitor. The city of Irvine was reduced to seven computer icons representing paradise, housing, nature, freeways, mall, hero and business. (Victoria Vesna)