"SPACESAMPLER WORLD SERIES",An
evolving internet tele-communication sculpture…
"sampling symbols icons
and hotspots from around the world"
definition: :
Spacesampler series:
is an international project sampling in London,New York,Paris
using 3d scanners to induct real world coordinates into the datum
space of the computer, this is the starting point for an evolving series
of art works.and internet
bio-art{Autotecture}
The project consists of the
remote 3d laser scanning iconic objects;such as the Statue of Liberty,
Ronald Mcdonald ,Dow jones etc. thereby capturing real world
form by using telemetric scanners to digitize objects volume by volume
at a distance. The abducted coordinates of that object are then turned
into a digital mesh or virtual 3D representation. Evolving algorithms
may mutate the form after it has been sampled not unlike a virus.
"It may be likely to assume
that this form of sculpture ‘SPACESAMPLING’
may have the same effect on creating sculpture as sound sampling had
on music"
Recent solo show
:at the Contemporary arts center New Orleans combined these paradigms
and was a rounding off of the work of the past five years.
The works on show in New
Orleans were part of the "Spacesampler tour" series. The sculptures
were made/Sampled in Paris{3d systems wax thermojet},Downtown
Chicago{Daly plaza} and Minneapolis {Anurag foundry} the "Spacesampler"
tour visited London,New York, Paris where parts of the
classical sculpture,"NIKE, the Winged Victory of Samothrace"
were digitally sampled at the Musee de Louvre.using the Minolta 3d
scanner .The rapid prototype{3d print} of right hand of ‘Nike’
has been on exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans:
where the virtual model is simultaneously installed on the internet
and can be interacted with /viewed at: http://www.spacesampler.com/3rd.html
"I am using 3d telemetric
scanners to induct real world coordinates into the datum space of the
computer / this is the starting point for "Autopoetic generation",as
the
"telecom-vector object"
is evolved in virtual space and may have an emergent open ended destiny
and have resistance to metaphor."
:"I am for an art that
posits autopoesis of form ,that may seed and generate itself within
the computer matrix: I call this AUTOTECTURE."
.
"the work is therefore
output as a rendering or ‘snapshot’ of the algorithms state
of evolution, an emergent "footprint" of development in autonomous space,
in the same way a tree, flower or fish is a recording of its own evolution,evident.
signatures of their own trajectory and synthesis over time".
"I am for an art that
uses technology to open up and reveal new perceptual discourses towards
a new conceptual art generated in a conceptual space : art being generated
and evolving in the "tropic" space of the computer and the internet
where a new species of form may evidence and evolve under its own power".
"I am therefore using
internet "space" to conceive/ farm/engineer bio-art and maintain works
as an alternative to the pre-digital stationary,non evolving traditional
conceptual arts"
.Copyright Paulhigham
2000
