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Ren Adams
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We
printmaking, hybrid, digital
live in an age of information — a
socio-cultural climate that straddles the material and immaterial, our daily interactions taking place across physical and theoretical environments. Space and time collapse in the
face of this digitally-driven landscape, redefined
by delivery and access. As we engage this data
cascade, theorist Henry Jenkins claims “[we]
construct our own personal mythology from bits
and fragments of information extracted from the
media flow… transformed into resources through
which we make sense of our everyday lives.” This
pronounced hypertextuality allows for connectivity, remix and recombination previously inconceivable in visual art (and culture at large).
My primary body of work investigates the nature of emergence in the data cascade—addressing
the way being materializes from non-being, matter
from the void of non-matter, in relation to timerelativity and fluid perspective. Extending into the
hypertext of time and space, I use address information as matter, the interconnectivity of networks
(biological, social, spatial) and the deep virtual
space where it all takes shape.
Synthesizing ideas found in physics, information theory, Eastern philosophy, archaeology, digital culture, mass media and linguistics, I embrace
the interdisciplinary nature of mixed media, layering printmaking techniques with drawing, painting
and digital processing. These layers address convergence, the originating space where substance
takes root, generating a virtual archaeological dig
where viewers uncover artifacts, moments and
mysterious terrain. The resulting
alchemy of image integrates micro
and macro components, revealing transitory connections while
expressing multiple points in time
simultaneously.
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There are endless networks
within networks—the systems of
matter, information and social interaction spiraling, remixing, inviting deep exploration. I aim for a
relativity of past and present, matter and awareness: pieces become
field notes for a digital, personally
mythological, universe.
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