Atlas_
Installation view, Barbara & Art Culver Center for the Arts at UCR ARTS, Riverside, USA, 2021. Photo: Jason Gowans
Installation view, Barbara & Art Culver Center for the Arts at UCR ARTS, Riverside, USA, 2021. Photo: Jason Gowans
Digital print on wallpaper (5 components) | 2021
Printed wallpaper wraps itself around walls and other surfaces, highlighting architectural features and use-led adaptations of the exhibition space; bodies and space produce each other. Atlas_ both presents and instantiates the “source code” of the wider project Ninfa Atlas, providing a glimpse into the logic of digital imaging by bringing attention to one of its byproducts.
For Atlas_ one type of file produced by volumetric video capture: the image map, or atlas—the “skin” of digital assets, was selected from each Ninfa Atlas “character”. Each atlas was deployed as a pattern that is infinitely repeatable, scalable, and applicable. An example of the building blocks of digital imaging, this frame presents a body gutted, flattened, splayed, and torn to pieces. This brings critical attention to the violence that is at the core of digital imaging. 3D asset construction is built on a dangerously deficient and utterly unimaginative grasp of the world, divided into two asset classes: frame and skin, support and surface, architecture and façade. Bodies have long been both the subject of the image and subjected to its regime: the crucible of image innovation, bodies are in turn shaped by images. The wallpaper takes us on an immersive, seductive, and situated journey that brings attention to digital imaging’s infrastructural alignments.
Credits
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Performers:
Gustine Fudickar, Abriel Gardner, Jobel Medina, Ryan O’Byrne, and Cecilia Slongo -
Production support:
Metastage, Los Angeles -
Funding:
Canada Council for the Arts and University of California, Riverside
Atlas_Abriel, detail of wallpaper
Exhibition view, UB Art Galleries, Buffalo, USA, 2022-23. Photo: Biff Henrich
Atlas_Ryan, detail of wallpaper
Atlas_Jobel, detail of wallpaper
Exhibition view, UB Art Galleries, Buffalo, USA, 2022-23. Photo: Biff Henrich
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2022–23
I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality
UB Art Galleries
Buffalo, USA
Exhibition
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2021–22
Who Raised It Up So Many Times?
Barbara & Art Culver Center of the Arts at UCR ARTS
Riverside, USA
Exhibition