Teknovisuell Experience, 2015 – 2017, Public Installation, Detail #5, Otis College of Art and Design Admissions Office, Los Angeles, California, 2016. The artwork engages the relationships of body & space, and image technology through the clarity and ability to to perceive images. This work of imaging processes displaces and reforms pigments and images, creating fuzzy borders to represent the breakdown of the human ability to read or discern visual information. The Teknovisuell Experience series represents images of water as an aesthetic means to explore the ethical qualities technology raises in our societies. As part of the larger body of Virtual Material body of work, exploiting photography while engaging in phenomenological subjects with water, stones, forests, technology, vision, body, perception, ethics. The Virtual Material body of work includes: Trânsito, Teknovisuell Experience, Sonidos, Fleuressence, Relatively Dimensional Still-Life, 1919 in 2017, videos, installations, as prints, projections, wall coverings, acrylic prints, garments. Contact: mariammanart@icloud.com
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Teknovisuell Experience involves several layers in the materiality of the image, systems, and processes in imaging, the vision-body relationship, and ways civilizations form understandings of nature. From an empirical, materialist philosophical standpoint, the works reflect on age-old discussions between Platonic and Sophist ideas, and the places spiritual and scientific ideas are permitted. Through the emphasis on the ethereal nature of screen-based technologies, the Teknovisuell Experience Details take up these conversations both through the processes in which they were created and in the results of the viewers’ interactions and memories with images. By engaging the physical body with the vision, the distance in viewing engages viewers’ bodies in the opportunity to look at processes otherwise invisible to users of screen-based technology, but evident to builders of technology such as R&D, the coder, manufacturer, and marketer. The details in Teknovisuell Experience were composed of the decomposition of images up and downloaded through social media channels; 7 times for each image. The final images reconstitute a representation, highlighting the way images become a form of cultural ritualization. By further manipulating the image to highlight degraded visual qualities, and print at large scale or clip sections out as fragments, the various installation formats available engage viewers in contemplation of the areas in an increasingly liquid society. The scale and application of the image evoke motifs and patterns found in traditions of totems and textiles. Still images are applied as wall coverings, pillars, scrolls, or flags. Digital gifs of the images afford exhibition on screens and move static light reflections, creating visually ghostly movements.