Scrutinising two
systems structuring contemporary geopolitics — religion and natural resources, Mater looks through the prism of Saudi society to demonstrate each system to be massive in both physical and conceptual reach, braided with economics, social transformation and, ultimately, control.
In this solo exhibition of recent and new works, Ahmed Mater scrutinises two
systems structuring contemporary geopolitics — religion and natural resources.
Not exact matches
Brilliant minds of the order of Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, Warren Weaver, John Von Newman, W. Ross Ashby, and Stafford Beer, among many others, provided the conceptual
structures for the multidisciplinary methodology of the
systems approach.2 Incredible advances in computers, in league with sophisticated instruments of
systems analysis, play an ever increasing role in shaping the life style and the world view of
contemporary society along the lines suggested by
systems theory.
The obverse of this is the fact, unfortunately too evident in the
contemporary world, that when a totalitarian
system sets out to destroy an existing social
structure, it begins by attacking the home.
Without a doubt, this is a difficult period to become a physician - scientist because academic
structures and reward
systems are lagging well behind the
contemporary realities that constrain traditional physician - scientist careers.
The role of research integrity in the very
structure of
contemporary science, addressing cultural practices in its publication
system, current ethical challenges in peer review and its consequences regarding the reliability of the research record.
And yet the flayed and collaged paintings suggest that knowledge both expands through time and remains consigned to the
structures and value
systems from which the questions of
contemporary research originate.»
Indeed, the similarities allow a different path to understanding many
contemporary artists, whose output makes use of
systems and
structures — similar to the notations and instructions of sheet music — that attempt to remove the hand of the maker, yet also present these variations under the guise of a single name.
These include autonomous recording and narrative
systems, the investigation of temporal
structures, and the material - based aesthetic and media - spanning conflation of personal time concepts and of
contemporary history and current events.
Today his work focuses mainly on the analysis of the
structures of society, with their political references and impact on the lives of individuals, laying bare the fragility and instability of
contemporary political
systems.
Precipitations at the Museum of
Contemporary Cuts explores the contemporary fall from heaven of «perfect economic formulas» in the form of a text - based rain of ideological systems and financial
Contemporary Cuts explores the
contemporary fall from heaven of «perfect economic formulas» in the form of a text - based rain of ideological systems and financial
contemporary fall from heaven of «perfect economic formulas» in the form of a text - based rain of ideological
systems and financial
structures.
His sculptures, installations, actions and performances critique the dominant
structures of cultural production, questioning the politics, hierarchies and class
systems that define
contemporary life.
More than twenty
contemporary artists from home and abroad examine the importance of
systems of order such as cartography, archival
structures and scientific systematizations for today's artistic production.
LG Williams / The Estate of LG Williams surveys the
contemporary art
system itself, artistic production and
structures, public and private networks, the power of the
system, the value of the artistic product, and the communication tools set by the
system to control information and promotion.
Yet while his
contemporaries questioned the Romantic conception of the artist's touch by having works fabricated mechanically or by using chance or serial
systems to determine the
structures of their work, Pascali took issue with the notion of a consistent strategy or style, refusing to create works that could easily be recognized as his.
After relocating to the United States in 1986 on a fellowship from Fulbright College at the University of Arkansas, Ji found his voice as an artist who reinvents the
system of symbolic
structures found in classical Chinese painting to expose the dark side of industrial development on
contemporary life.
Critical of the
systems on which
contemporary society is
structured, Liu employs whatever medium or technique is best suitable to call into question the fixed notion that there is one way to understand the world and one way to act.
Gary Tinterow, Engelhard Chairman of the Department of Nineteenth - Century, Modern, and
Contemporary Art, stated: «Although the Starn brothers are best known for their photographs, in fact their abiding interest is in organic
systems and
structures, as seen in their photographs of trees, leaves, and snow flakes, or here, in Big Bambú.
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