sculpture, structure, network:
undisciplined pursuits

Sculpture knows no bounds when it follows through the early-Modern gesture of Rodin's Burghers of Calais
- stepping from plinth to place, from museum to situation, from discipline to process, from commodity to currency, from matter to essence, and from form to inform(e).

To be informal, without form, is not to be exclusive of structure - information has always been another matter for sculpture - formless perhaps, but highly workable, like clay and pixels.

Our concern here will be to pursue and capture a sculptural flight from plinth to screen - an incomplete and unrealistic project of dematerialization. Our production will result in a hybrid exhibition of work in space and time which spans the gap between actuality and virtuality. Some participants will produce material sculpture, others will utilize digital structure. Collaboration towards display of the work will necessarily fashion an interface between 'online' objects and environments and their counterparts 'offline'.

Like all true sculpture, ours will be an exploration and representation of the prevailing spatial immanence of human consciousness.

artCS20 - College of Creative Studies, UCSB - winter99 | Graham Budgett | budgett@arts.ucsb.edu