Phoenix Perry

Work Description
This body of work started in 2004 when I began drawing by hand again. Moving from an all digital practice to a pen reinforced in me the astounding complexity and beauty of nature. After creating hundreds of sketches, I integrated both practices together to create these pieces. The flexibility of digital creation let me add additional levels of complexity to the original pieces. At its core, this newer work experiments with building up complexity through repetition, algorithms and pattern. Fusing interests in nature, complexity, and emergence together, these drawings weave together an abstract experimental ecologies.

Artist Statement
PRACTICE:
My work calls for a renegotiation of humanity’s relationship with physical, mechanic, and architectural environments while also asking for a more compassionate and conscious approach to living. I seek to awaken people to their interdependent relationships with their surroundings and to cause contemplation and consideration of the importance of existence and the responsibility of consciousness. I use a condensed language of drawings, animation, sculpture, sound, and installation to currently achieve this aim.

BELIEF:
Both humans and technology are outgrowths of nature. All life on earth is part of an interdependent ecosystem. Life is defined as anything made of organic matter. Every particle in motion affects all other particles in the system. There is no separation between nature, man, technology, and the void. Any perceived disconnection is a flaw of perception that must be corrected to aid in the evolution of our species. All of these systems give rise to each other and depend on each other for mutual co-creation and evolution. Each one is a dimension of the other.

Generally, systems exist in 2 types of states, equilibrium and nonequilibrium. We think of a cell as “dead” in the equilibrium state and alive in the nonquilbirum one. Systems that are on the verge of reorganization or death are called far from equilibrium. A steady state in a biological system is death. By working with the ideas of rhizome and anarchic formations from Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus and Ilya Prigogine’s theory that highly stressed systems will either reorganize at a higher level of complexity or fall apart/die, one can begin to understand the desperate need for change in culture’s failing predominantly hierarchical paradigm. In biology this is also referred to as catabolic (process of coming apart) and anabolic (process of building) development. In order for humanity to survive the current social catabolic process it must reorganize at a higher level of complexity. This evolution must include the radical redevelopment of the relationship between humanity, technology, environment and consciousness. Humans need to begin to see themselves as part of larger systems of interconnected relationships.

As a society, we are at the end of a paradigm and a new one is currently being born. Society must evolve new forms of understanding or the whole system will continue its collapse. As an artist, I consider my job one of reorientation. My work aims to reorient the participant into a paradigm of deeper awareness about the complexity and interconnectedness of the world around them. By creating a sense of wonder and play, I'm opening up spaces for experimentation and meditation.

Bio
Artist Phoenix Perry has a decade of experience in art and technology. From working in San Francisco as a digital arts curator and educator, creating the award winning DVD project Reline, and opening Devotion Gallery she has extensive experience in new media, technology, and user interfaces. Perry's work has screened worldwide, at venues such as Lincoln Center, SFMoma, The Guggenheim, Transmediale, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, LAMCA, European Media Arts Festive, GenArt, Seoul Film Festival, and many others. Her work explores gaming, environment, complexity, and technology. She participated in the HarvestWorks 2006 Residency Program.

SELECTED VIDEO AND GALLERY APPEARANCES
Come Out and Play Festival - June 20th 2010
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Swing Space Exhibition curated by HarvestworksMay 2007
Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany – April 2005
Transmediale - International Media Art Festival, Berlin - Feb. 2005
YULE Festival Of Light, Amsterdam, Neterlands - Dec. 21-23 2005
Project 101, Vibro Crosses Reline, Paris France - Nov. 2005
Cimatics Festival, Brussels, Belgium - Nov. 26-30
The New Forms Festival, Vancouver, Canada - Oct. 2004
LACMA, Los Angeles, USA - Oct. 31 2004
Virginia Film Festival, USA - Oct. 28 2004
New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, USA - July 2004
Santa Fe Art Institute, The Domino Effect, New Mexico, USA - May 2004
Repellent Magazine Festival, NYC, USA - March 2004
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA - June 2003
Austin Museum of Digital Art, Texas, USA - Feb. 2003
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, USA - Feb. 2003
Transcinema, 111 Minna, San Francisco, USA - Oct. 2003
Barcelona Art Report Hangar, Spain - June 2001
Air Portugal II – Pond Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA - Nov. 17 – Dec 16 2001 London Biennale, Shoreditch Town Hall,London, UK - May 18 2001
Die Lounge, Manheim, Germany – March 2003
The Free Biennial, Remonte Lounge, NYC, NY – April 2002
Gent Film Festival, Gent, Belgium - July 19 3003
SF Independent Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, USA – Aug 2000
Crucible Steel Gallery, Cell Art Space, San Francisco, CA, USA – April 1 1999
City Zooms, Hanover, Germany - May 11 - 17.2000
Live Art Lab, The Lab – San Francisco, CA, USA - April 14-15 2000
RX Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA – June 2003
DV-Cinema St. Paul, MN, USA – June 2003

RESIDENCIES
Harvestworks 2006 artist in residence

CONFERENCES
ICMC: Red Light Chair

PUBLICATIONS AND RELEASES:
RELINE 2 DVD - Drawdown (single channel video work). Released by Microcinema International 2006
THE FREEDOM BOOK - Freedom.I.Nation (photography). Released by Goohoo press 2003
RELINE 1 DVD - The Shadow of Digital Living. Release by Form Records 2001

SELECTED PRESS COVERAGE AND AWARDS
Time Out New York June 10, 2009
The Wire May 2003
Frieze Magazine March 2002
XLR8R Oct. 2002
Intro Magazine Germany Jan. 2003
Best of the Bay San Francisco Bay Guardian 2001
Shift.jp.org Issue 52 2002
XLR8R June 2002
Best Video Artist in San Francisco FLYER Magazine 2000

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Sougwen Chung

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Artist Statement & Bio

Sougwen is a Brooklyn-based designer/illustrator currently living in Stockholm, Sweden. Her latest work attempts to capture a kinetic essence and rhythm across a static surface, contrasting delicately controlled line-work with a freeform approach to mark-making, producing images that are dynamic in their stillness. Her early forays into generative art with NY-based artist Joshua Davis have been mentioned in Computer Arts Magazine and her illustrations have been featured on sites such as Booooom, Design You Trust, Behance Network, Typography Served, The Strange Attractor, Ffffound, Site Inspire, and numerous other independent sources online.

Elisabeth Timpone

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Artist Statement

My drawings are derived from daydreams. They capture moments in nature that may otherwise go unseen. These moments create a portal to the unscathed forest where animals live to play and fight to survive. I am interested in the way they communicate with each other and the way they unfold the many layers of the earth around them. At night I am nose to nose with the beasts, unwinding their tales, walking their paths and imagining the things they say when I’m not around. I don’t know them, but they inspire me. Every delicate and whimsical line I make come together to create a textured story of their lives. I unfold stories of survival and transformation where dreams and reality lay side by side.

Bio

After studying communication design at Parsons School of Design in NYC, Elisabeth Timpone unexpectedly began an extensive endeavor into a world of fine art. Her whimsically obsessive lines, and delicate but ferocious images speak of growth, decay and the interconnectedness of all animals with nature. Since her start, she has shown at galleries in New York, California and Canada. Elisabeth is currently working on a letter pressed children’s book called “Baby Bestiary”.