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Ceci Moss
Since 2005
Works in Brooklyn, New York United States of America

BIO
Ceci Moss is a freelance writer, musician, DJ, and curator. She is
currently pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature at NYU. Her
research addresses contemporary internet-based art practice, digital
technology and perception, the materiality of media, postmodernism and
digital art preservation. From 2007-2011 she was Senior Editor of
Rhizome, where she is presently a Staff Writer. She writes and edits
the online contemporary art and music blog A Million Keys. For the
past ten years, she’s programmed the weekly radio show Radio Heart on
KALX and East Village Radio. She studied Sociology, History and French
at UC Berkeley, and Critical Theory in Paris, France at the Université
Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III/Centre parisien d’études critiques.


Images from Jonathan Zawada's exhibit "Over Time" at PRISM



Why the Earth is Green, 2010

The exhibition focuses on large-scale landscape paintings whose topographies are derived from graph data. Zawada collected and compared a variety of data series that extrapolate information over time, such as “Marijuana usage among year 12 students vs. CD and Vinyl record sales between 1975 and 2000” or “Value of land per square meter in Second Life vs. Value of land per square foot in Dubai between 2007 and 2009.” The data is then manipulated through a 3D fractal program and the resulting environment becomes a virtual abstraction that mimics a mountainous landscape.

Painted on linen, the landscapes are a response to the “virtual” reality of digital experiences that are highlighted by the intrinsic flatness and surreal color palate. Invoking the robotics hypothesis of the “Uncanny Valley,” the works take on an android quality, a sense of reality but not quite, registering with the viewer as both familiar and dissimilar. This theme carries through to his drawings, juxtaposing the hyper-real with the conceptually abstract and underlining the temporality of human experience.

-- DESCRIPTION FROM STATEMENT FOR "OVER TIME" AT PRISM (DEC 16, 2010 — FEB 12, 2011)

Flight 77, 2010

Earth Movers, 2010

Very Hot Nights, 2010

Land Sale, 2010

Originally via TRIANGULATION BLOG

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Rectangle & Rectangles (1984) - Réné Jodoin



This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker programmed a computer to coordinate a highly complex operation involving an electronic beam of light, color filters and a camera. This animation film, without words, is designed to expose the power of the cinematic medium, and to illustrate the abstract nature of time.

-- DESCRIPTION FROM THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA

Originally via DIAMOND VARIATIONS

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