Charles Sandison
02 Jun - 22 Jul 2007
CHARLES SANDISON
"Utopia"
Yvon Lambert is please to announce an exhibition with Charles Sandison opening June 2nd 2007, the artists first exhibition in the Paris gallery.
‘Utopia’, 2007 a new work for Yvon Lambert Paris is a living poetical treatise. Utopia (derived from the Greek 'ou' for "no" and '-topos' for "place" "a perfect place" a fictional, non-realistic place) is an imaginary island, depicted by Sir Thomas More in a text published in 1516 as a perfect social, legal, and political system. In a negative meaning it refers to a society that is unrealistic. It has also been used to describe actual communities founded in attempts to create an ideal society.
The artist Charles Sandison uses a combination of language, architecture, and technology to create immersive data projection installations that place the viewer at the centre of a changing universe of words, signs, and characters. Grammatical structure is replaced by movement and interaction between the computer generated texts. Complex visual narratives that often only exist for a passing moment invite the viewer to perceive the work of art as an idea encapsulated in a moment in time. The work is running in real-time, during each moment of the exhibition the works are trying to prove the mathematical probability for society to exist as a utopia. In the same way that analysts use computer processing to predict the direction of the stock market or forecast the weather this art work computes the possibility of humanistic, socialist, democratic, and religious values ever becoming mutually compatible in such a way as to crate a contemporary ‘Utopia’.
Six elements, each relating to one of the six utopian concepts envisaged by Thomas More are in constant change and dialogue, occupying the gallery as projections, drifting across the walls they collide, intertwine, and negate each other. Occasionally loosing parts or shedding elements that briefly become independent before fading away. No two moments are ever identical as each element competes and interacts.
The entire surface of the gallery becomes a panoramic screen allowing the digitally generated text projections to move freely throughout the space. The movement of the words is governed by computer genetic algorithm programs written by the artist.
Genetic algorithms are implemented as a computer simulation in which a population of abstract representations (called chromosomes or the genotype or the genome) of candidate solutions (called individuals, creatures, or phenotypes) to an optimization problem evolves toward better solutions.
The six works communicate with each other via a wireless network that generates a radio signature that extends outside the building, occasionally a work will drift invisibly outside the gallery into the surrounding streets.
"Utopia"
Yvon Lambert is please to announce an exhibition with Charles Sandison opening June 2nd 2007, the artists first exhibition in the Paris gallery.
‘Utopia’, 2007 a new work for Yvon Lambert Paris is a living poetical treatise. Utopia (derived from the Greek 'ou' for "no" and '-topos' for "place" "a perfect place" a fictional, non-realistic place) is an imaginary island, depicted by Sir Thomas More in a text published in 1516 as a perfect social, legal, and political system. In a negative meaning it refers to a society that is unrealistic. It has also been used to describe actual communities founded in attempts to create an ideal society.
The artist Charles Sandison uses a combination of language, architecture, and technology to create immersive data projection installations that place the viewer at the centre of a changing universe of words, signs, and characters. Grammatical structure is replaced by movement and interaction between the computer generated texts. Complex visual narratives that often only exist for a passing moment invite the viewer to perceive the work of art as an idea encapsulated in a moment in time. The work is running in real-time, during each moment of the exhibition the works are trying to prove the mathematical probability for society to exist as a utopia. In the same way that analysts use computer processing to predict the direction of the stock market or forecast the weather this art work computes the possibility of humanistic, socialist, democratic, and religious values ever becoming mutually compatible in such a way as to crate a contemporary ‘Utopia’.
Six elements, each relating to one of the six utopian concepts envisaged by Thomas More are in constant change and dialogue, occupying the gallery as projections, drifting across the walls they collide, intertwine, and negate each other. Occasionally loosing parts or shedding elements that briefly become independent before fading away. No two moments are ever identical as each element competes and interacts.
The entire surface of the gallery becomes a panoramic screen allowing the digitally generated text projections to move freely throughout the space. The movement of the words is governed by computer genetic algorithm programs written by the artist.
Genetic algorithms are implemented as a computer simulation in which a population of abstract representations (called chromosomes or the genotype or the genome) of candidate solutions (called individuals, creatures, or phenotypes) to an optimization problem evolves toward better solutions.
The six works communicate with each other via a wireless network that generates a radio signature that extends outside the building, occasionally a work will drift invisibly outside the gallery into the surrounding streets.