Joe Hamilton - Hyper Geography

Joe Hamilton - Hyper Geography

blog, 2011

Hyper Geography is an online project by Australian based artist Joe Hamilton. 

Taking the format of an endless stream of images, the blog is a complex puzzle of appropriated content compiled in square shaped formats that connect and overlap with the images next to it.   

Conflating organic, human and technological references, the majority of the content illustrates the blurring definitions of 'environment' and habitat in the contemporary world. Perhaps the individual images can be understood as a sort of hybrid that links man to its digital environment, but the seamless flow of one image to the next also alludes to the relentless distribution of images online. Hamilton addresses the act of blogging as an artistic medium as well as a platform for display.

"What in the history of thought may be seen as a confusion or an over-lapping is often the precise moment of the dramatic impulse, since it is because the meanings and the experiences are uncertain and complex that the dramatic mode is more powerful, includes more, than could any narrative or exposition: not the abstracted order, though its forms are still present, but at once the order, the known meanings, and that experience of order and meanings which is at the very edge of the intelligence and the senses, a complex interaction which is the new and dramatic form." — Williams, R. (1980) Ideas of Nature in Problems in Materialism and Culture. London: Verso

http://hypergeography.tumblr.com/

Seth Price - Business Envelopes, Gifts, Twine

Seth Price - Business Envelopes, Gifts, Twine

2008 - present

Seth Price's work spans text, video, sculpture and sound. He has become internationally known for his conceptual works revolving around ideas of appropriation, and the circulation of materials and information around the world.

'Business Envelopes, Gifts, Twine' are a series of images of envelopes or packages wrapped up with twine printed onto protective 'safety' film mounted on reflective acrylic sheets.  Price's work engages with strategies of recirculation, packaging and dispersion to make us consider issues of material and cultural production. As the 'Business Envelopes, Gifts, Twine'  works are displayed their printed surface slowly peals off. Only 'opening' after the exhibition has hosted its Private View the work begins to corrupt itself presumably hinting at the inevitable detritus of commodity culture.