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Compressionism
By nathaniel stern
launch linked artwork
Place: franchise, johannesburg, guateng, south africaKeyword: archive, body, digital, performance, public space, space, tactical media, Third WorldGenre: Abstract, Conceptual, Formalist, Offline, TacticalType: Performance, Visual
Compressionism is a digital performance, an analog archive; it uses simple, digital technologies, in combination with performance and exhibition, to explore different ways of looking.
The first Compressionist studies are “painted with light,” an ironically inspired method similar in concept to the Impressionists. Said studies use the reflective beam of a moving digital scanner, over time, to compress large spaces or objects into images the size of a small sheet of paper. The scanner acts as an extension to the artist’s body, and together, they are both paintbrush and canvas.
As such, compression becomes an artful performance that simultaneously occurs in both the actual and virtual space. The “capture and compress,” “action and archive,” process is a performance not dissimilar from Abstract Expressionism. But, rather than a linear, archived performance, the computer then allows for a re-mediated “call and response.”
Once a performance is digitized and compressed, the computer acts as multiple frames for its subject; it’s used to process, clarify, and unpack the study – both literally, and metaphorically. A compressed image stretched to it’s original size, for example, would show distortions and refractions in its subject or performance, and could resemble a Cubist work, through its representation of multiple perspectives on a flat surface.
Each Compressionist study may vary slightly in its form, performance, archive and presentation. Several digital art-objects might result from each study, and these are then re-texturized, in physical form, e.g., the first images were printed on archival, photo-etching paper. I imagine the works will become more extravagant and experimental as I continue my interrogation, audiences become familiar with my work, and I explore other technologies for compression. For example, future studies might utilize anything from web-cams to microphones for input, 3D printers to audiotape for output.
A Compressionist exhibition’s intent is to provoke a complex conversation between artist, performance, mediation tool, art-object(s) and viewer.
Biography
nathaniel stern (JHB / NYC) is an internationally exhibited installation and video artist, net.artist and performance poet. His interactive installations have won awards in New York, Australia and South Africa, and his net.art has been featured in festivals all over Europe, Asia and the US. nathaniel’s collaborative physical theatre and multimedia performance work with the Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative has won three FNB Vita Awards and has seen three main stage features at the Grahamstown Festival. His poetry repertoire includes CBGBs and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the US National Poetry Slam and the South African HIV/AIDS Arts, Media & Film Festival.
