Not exact matches
Her work addresses how the historical can be used as a material to address
contemporary conditions such as loss, the swipe, the flatness and limitations of an image, emotions in classical sculpture, the use of models, muscle aches from using a
computer, color as a
language, and the democracy of materials such as clay.
«What's fascinating about Rafman's work is the way he uses the very familiar visual
language of the internet, social media, and
computer games to create immersive narratives that reveal the anxieties and desires of
contemporary life,» says Maitreyi Maheshwari, program director at Zabludowicz Collection and curator of the exhibition, which also offered up a waterbed, ball pit, massage chair, and filing cabinets streaming video games in first - person shooter.
It explores information transmission through a combination of Mesoamerican art and
contemporary technical
language in drawing and print, while another sculpture, «Modular Glyphic System» (2013)-- made in collaboration with Genghis Khan Fabrication Co. — resembles a PC
computer case of thin metal that can be taken apart and recombined into other forms.
Functioning as a series of études to
contemporary computer code, these paintings flirt consciously with the provocative gestures and meta - questions of conceptual art and the heavy visual
language and history of abstraction.
From communication to transportation (of people, goods, and messages), from design to production, from political economy and capital regimes, our
contemporary societies are guided by codes written in programming
languages that use electromagnetic waves and
computers.
All the high - school students will be taught the fundamentals of
computer technology will become proficient in binary arithmetic and will be trained to perfection in the use of the
computer languages that will have developed out of those like the
contemporary «Fortran» (from «formula translation»).