Renate had another interesting find! I love these. Check out the animations on artist Brian Piana's website. They are as cute as abstracted webpages can possibly get. These fall into a category I call "Map Language." We are able to recognize all of the devices of maps, (regions, routes, borders, keys, etc.) but there is no actual information. The results are that the imagination of every viewer fills information in, evoking past experiences and forging new possibilites. The artist's tools are small cues in colors, compositions, media, etc. It works by extrapolating information from maps (or graphic layouts in Brian Piana's case, or by appropriating non-map imagery and presenting it as something that visually suggests a map, as we did with cracks, sticks, and textures surfaces recently. Lordy Rodriquez uses this both ways.
Side note: Lordy is originally from Houston and Brian may be showing here soon.
Renate describes:
These images are derived from web pages. For example I really enjoy "The Rise to Power of Tom Delay" which shows the descent from an orderly web page to a disorderly
page as Delay fell under scrutiny (I may be biased about that since I live
in an unincorporated part of Sugar Land). Anyway I find them evocative of
web pages, diagrams, printed circuit boards, etc. www.spillsomepaint.com
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FYI, I saw on Glasstire that Brian's work will be in the UH 2007 School of Art Masters Thesis exhibition which opens April 13 7-9 at Blaffer.
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