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- Janis Jefferies
- Janis Jefferies is an artist, writer, curator, and Professor of Visual Arts in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is Artistic Director of Goldsmiths Digital Studios and Director of the Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles. Jefferies was trained as a painter and later pioneered the field of contemporary textiles within visual and material culture, internationally through exhibitions and texts. In the last five years she has been working on technological based arts, including Woven Sound (with Dr. Tim Blackwell). She has been a principal investigator on projects involving new haptic technologies by bringing the sense of touch to the interface between people and machines and generative software systems for creating and interpreting cultural artifacts, museums and the external environment. In the spring 2009 semester, Jefferies will be a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Fiber and Material Studies.
Grouping, repetition, layers etc...
ReplyDeleteAdding depth to something disposable
-Soo & Jacob
Also, taking something otherwise discarded and breathing new life into it by reaestheticising the object. I think it challenges how we view the disposable and makes us accountable for what we produce and consume. I wonder what makes a spectacle, or at least what enables spectacle in a pictoral culture?
ReplyDeleteTrash becomes spectacle when it is taken out of the bins, corners, and fills that we use to ignore it and placed in a context which refuses to be ignored. For example the gallery space or public space.
ReplyDeleteTo take an object out of its original state and appropriate it as an art object (be it trash, photographs, newspapers, dog collars, tennis shows, air conditioners, ect.) is to detach the object from previous definition (here, "trash"). By placing it on an aesthetic pedestal (such as a gallery), to be viewed as an art object entirely redefines the object (in this case "spectacle").
ReplyDeleteThe abundance of trash is a spectacle. The placement of trash in a gallery changes its context emphasizing the fact that it is a spectacle.
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