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The two artists
in question are Southampton-based Vicky Isley and Paul Smith who have gained international
recognition for creating digital artwork.
For Theatre of restless automata, their largest solo exhibition to date, they
have crafted works of art from computer graphics, looking at the way that science,
art, machinery and nature intertwine. The
exhibition features delicate, biological looking images that have actually been
made up of thousands of pixels.
The piece Ornamental bug garden 001 looks like a serene Chinese style floral print
whereas the image Biome could easily be a glimpse of a human cell or amoeba as
seen from under a microscope.  | | Ornamental
bug garden 001 by boredomresearch (2004, detail) |
For
those wondering what the title of the exhibition means, it refers to the inventors
of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries who created crude robots and mechanised
creatures. At the time, these were considered incredibly life-like and state of
the art. Rather
than exhibit their work on a load of computer screens, the artists have decided
to display it behind glass portals. The idea is that you can view the images by
peering inside these portals and watch them as they move and interact with their
computerised surroundings. Theatre
of restless automata
Aspex
Gallery
9 April – 4 June
2005
Information 023 9281 2121 |
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