Fwd: RHIZOME_RAW: Just added to the Rhizome ArtBase: Soda Lake Drawings by Christina McPhee

June 8, 2005

Type: discussion

Hi all,
my server crashed when this announcement went online a few days
ago…from all of the requests for the streaming video. It is a big
one, 83 mb so of course you need a fast connection. Thanks to everyone
who tried to see the work! Since then, we've upped the bandwith on the
server, so if you couldn't see the video before, please have another go
and maybe the server can take the heat this time.

best wishes

Christina

<http://christinamcphee.net>

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Rhizome.org" <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed May 18, 2005 9:05:42 AM US/Pacific
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Just added to the Rhizome ArtBase: Soda Lake
> Drawings by Christina McPhee
> Reply-To: "Rhizome.org" <[email protected]>
>
> Just added to the Rhizome ArtBase …
> http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?32981
>
>
> + Soda Lake Drawings +
> + Christina McPhee +
>
> Soda Lake Drawings is a very personal work in that I wanted to echo
> the performative aspect of drawing field notes in a desolate
> landscape, within a visual and sonic layered field, where documentary
> and ambient sound and vision mix with deep layers of invented and
> imaginary emotional memory. Drawing the landscape is landscape
> drawing human as much as the other way…there is a blurred boundary:
> whose thought comes first– the numinous language of strong motion
> data streaming continuously (if one measures it) , the performative
> act of drawing in and of that space and place — and what does the
> memory document, this film, try to save or record? Nothing but, the
> enduring presence of an unfathomable depth of field, and the
> evanescent moment of engagement at arbitrary points in that depth of
> field.
>
> + + +
>
> Biography
>
> Born in Los Angeles, Christina McPhee is an multimedia artist with
> studios in downtown LA and in the central coast of California, where
> her art practice in painting, multimedia, and sound art extends
> conceptual strategies in data and landscape, and to architectural
> design education. She studied literature, art history and philosophy
> at Scripps College, Claremont; painting and printmaking at Kansas City
> Art Institute (BFA valedic) and painting at Boston University (MFA). A
> childhood on the Great Plains trained her eye towards the subtleties
> of landscape in apparently empty space. Her digitally transformed
> landscapes mesh painterly, architectural and technological detail
> within an atmosphere of chiaroscuro and baroque complexity.
>
> Her current work deals with the technological landscape and
> architectures of desire and memory in new media. She combines
> medium format photography, digital photography, drawing and digital
> video in Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries, an exploration of seismic memory,
> which recently showed in Los Angeles at Transport Gallery (March-April
> 2005), and RX Gallery San Francisco (May-June 2005). Christina McPhee
> works on site at seismically active zones in central California a