
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
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