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Information 'Buddha Hand Lemon (Citron) and Young Girl in Los Angeles' by Shari Won Kerttz Please Note: This piece is a moving image entry. To view the full video please visit our flickr or facebook pages via the web addresses at the bottom of this page. University & Course: University of London, Goldsmiths College, BA Fine ART. Medium: Mixed Media, Polystyrene, hard-coat, paint and tile mirror sculpture Video 1 and Video 2 Artist & Work: I’m interested in exploring the subject surrounding the polymorphic nature within the human consciousness condition through my art practice in new media involving various software programs and the computer interface. Thomas Naickomparambil professor of philosophy, defines the word polymorphic when paired with the term, ‘consciousness’: …“our consciousness is not governed by strictly intellectual concerns most of the time. This is due to the fact that the human conscious is polymorphic in nature. Etymologically the term ‘polymorphism’ is derived from the two Greek words polus (many) and morphe (form). Consequently, the expression ‘polymorphism of human consciousness’ signifies the (many forms) of human consciousness. The different patterns of consciousness often do not have clear-cut and fixed boundaries. They can overlap, mix, conflict and interfere with each other.1 An example is when using the medium of 3-D animation software, I am aware of my presence in front of a computer as well as the disembodied perception of being embodied within the machine whilst building, modeling and moving around an object. Perhaps using new media and in particular the computer as an implement in art making allows for new possibilities representing a polymorphic consciousness resembling the critical theory of post-humanism that is clarified as a transition in human consciousness or an “embodied medium through which critical consciousness is manifested. A narrativised, textualised version of a human,” or in other words “a non-physical manifestation of self.”2 It is as if symbolically the idea of both polymorphic consciousness and post-humanism found in new media gave demise to my use of the paintbrush in which I perceive as a metaphor for (Renaissance) humanism. In his book, The Posthuman Condition Consciousness Beyond the Brain, artist and academic writer, Robert Pepperell eloquently puts it, that from the beginning of our existence we have attempted to “extend our physical abilities with tools”; this is the “extensionist” (post-human) view of human nature, “… where (Renaissance) humanists saw themselves as distinct beings in an antagonistic relationship with their surroundings, post-humans regard their own being as embodied in an extended technological world.”3 In the current video and sculpture installation piece titled, Buddha Hand Lemon (Citron) and Young Girl in Los Angeles, I’m investigating further the notion of an immersive embodied space driven by an electronically mediated environment, yet I seek that ‘it does not take itself too seriously’ and has room to include a critical distance. In the discourses of immersive aesthetics complete illusory is ideal, but illusory is subjugated by it’s very nature as it is artificial and can never be real. Much like the city of Los Angeles that appears as a lush (man-made) paradise, but in actuality it is a desert. Also as in my past works, my concerns are related to a sense of cultural identity, which develops across race, class, gender and cultural disposition. I’m absorbed not solely in the facets of the occurrence of polymorphic consciousness, but the luminal negotiation in between these identities where other potentials may emerge. View the full video at these addresses Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/degreeart/4695407143/in/set-72157623720008500/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=366259879877&v=app_2392950137 |
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