Image from Emery Martin's project
Featuring ITP Alumnus Emery Martin in a group show.
A Segment of "Approximately Twenty Two Thousand Four Hundred Miles Over Approximately 16.28 Days", is a hyperobject that materializes one instance of my daily commute from Pasadena to Valencia, California, between 2010 and 2013. I spent approximately 16.28 days driving approximately 22,400 miles between these two locations for work. The piece is derived from GPS data and field recordings completed on the morning of June 15, 2011, that encapsulates all driving decisions made and sounds heard along the 32.6 miles traversed in 29 minutes. The resulting data is mapped digitally in three-dimensional space and printed in layers of plastic to create a sculptural form to act as a physical representation of this everyday experience. A field recording from within the cabin of the automobile during this commute plays from surface transducers hidden in the base of the sculpture, causing the entire structure to become a resonator for the auditory experience of the solitary driver. The contrast of the static representation of the sculpture and the realtime soundscape functions as a conduit for critical examination of the commuter experience, both as abstract data and visceral experience.
Show Description
ABSTRACTED VISIONS
Information Mapping from Mystic Diagrams to Data Visualizations
CERRITOS COLLEGE ART GALLERY
August 25, 2015 to September 24, 2015
Opening Reception: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 @ 6PM
Participating Artists: Brian Bulfer, Jake Dotson, Dawn Ertl, Laurie Frick, Helen Rebekah Garber, Kysa Johnson, David Leapman, Rona Lee, Karen Lofgren, Melissa Manfull, Emery C Martin, Khang Boa Nguyen, Carrie Paterson, Brian Porray, Brendan Threadgill, and Dani Tull
"The diagrammatic or abstract machine does not function to represent, even something real, but rather constructs a real that is yet to come, a new type of reality."
– Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (NY: Continuum, 2004), 157.
The Cerritos College Art Gallery is pleased to present “Abstracted Visions: Information Mapping from Mystic Diagrams to Data Visualizations.” This large group exhibition brings together sixteen local, national, and international contemporary artists, working in a range of visual media, each of whom produce diagrammatic abstractions that prioritized the representation of systemic structures over optical reductions (i.e. figuring rather than the figurative), thereby generating ontographic mass ornaments through which process may be seen as form (and by which form can, in turn, be processed). By loosely appropriating the coded visual vocabularies and organizational syntaxes of both spiritual and scientific traditions, filtered through the intensive membranes of nomadic lines and patterned deterritorializations, these diagrammatic manifestations of abstract machines provide for a metacritical exploration of the various regimes of signs that order our collective understanding and experience of ontological existence.
Mondays: 11AM-7PM
Tuesdays: 11AM-7PM
Wednesdays: 11AM-4PM
Thursdays: 11AM-4PM
Fridays: 11AM-4PM
Admission and events are free and open to the public.