archive: Three Virtual Artists Books for Gameboy Advance
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In completion of a residency awarded through the 2004 artist fellowship program at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California I created three digital Cornell boxes for the Gameboy Advance: Medicinal Craft of Cephalopods, Recollections of a Somnambulist and A Short History of the Bezoar Stone. Each of these pieces exist separately although they are often installed together as they are formally and conceptually complimentary to one another.
Medicinal Craft of Cephalopods
This work explores the murky subject of immunology and structural medicine of the class Cephalopoda within the phylum Mollusca through a collection of illustrations depicting their knowledge. Relatively common ingredients within Asian herbalist traditions, the cephalopods are highly intelligent; morphologically and behaviorally complex organisms with a little understood social structure, although it is known that they are among the most ancient organisms, with a fossil record dating to the Mesozoic period.
Recollections of a Somnambulist
A collection of animated tracings of moments as seen through closed eyelids. Perhaps remembered more correctly as those moments distilled from a journey taken, yet veiled by sleep. At the edge of land where the sea exchanges its force to pulverize the borders between them, the roar is less important than the foam – floating up from the depths, above the waves and deep into the heart of extinct, unknown constellations. These animated moments depict a vast, yet intimate experience where the boundaries between physical aspects of nature and internalized aspects of the individual blur with one another – hinting at a deeper cosmology which binds them.
A Short History of the Bezoar Stone
There are several varieties of internal and external inorganic concretions visible within the structure of organized societies dating into the recesses of prehistory. This work explores the interior life-phases of concretions (bezoar stone), understood as forming within a living body, and the less-known exterior lives of the stone.
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