A monumental construction zone
in Vancouver, B.C.: the first
part of the diptych focusses in
on an early stage in the
construction process and reveals
a desolate landscape of broken
concrete and mud with tracks of
heavy machinery. The second part
progressively shows the
placement of over one thousand
piles and the development of the
foundation on land and water.
Movements of construction
workers and passers-by appear as
filmstrip-like sequences, and
combined in the picture, they
form micro-narratives.
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webcam composites
Nov 15,
2007: the call receives
HONORABLE MENTION from netarts.org
This work emerges out of the
long-term network practice of
artist Isabelle Jenniches who
has worked in a wide variety
of creative net-based
activities. The particular
piece, "The Call" is one of
several process-oriented works
that she has initiated that
depends on the network
availability of generic
user-controlled web-cams. The
works are constructed over a
long period of time -- time
spent watching the selected
scenario, remotely --
life-time spent observing the
world. Thousands of images are
made during a methodological
process of deep-looking
through this mediated network
eye. The extended seeing and
repetitive digital operations
on the thousands of gathered
images acts to frame a
meditative daily routine. The
cumulative practice approaches
the classical Zen expression
-- "there is no web-cam, there
is no PhotoShop, there is only
the Void" -- and it arises
through the post-Cartesian
possibilities of a commonly
accessible network interface.
Recalling David Hockney's
early Polaroid work, "The
Call" is an intimate and
intense personal vision of a
scope rarely manifest in the
click-through eye-candy world
of the net. (John
Hopkins, neoscenes.net)
Exhibition
views: Centro Arte la Regenta,
Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain,
2008 and New Forms Festival,
Vancouver, Canada, 2006.
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