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Prosthetic Impulse
An exploration into the function of the ‘art machine’: constructed devices that assume the role of the artist. A call out for artists who construct devices as a process of creating work. It is essential that works bear reference to their making process, or machines can be exhibited as art objects in their own right.
Prosthetic Impulse - Call Out to Artists
With every tool man is perfecting his own organs… removing the limits of their functioning… Man has as it were become a kind of prosthetic God… but these organs have not grown onto him, and they still give him trouble at times.
(Sigmund Freud, Civilisation and Its Discontents).
In modern culture, the creation and use of prosthetics is commonplace. From pacemakers to cameras, we replace limbs; substitute human interaction; even supplant memory. Man and machine have become inexplicably intertwined in their co-dependence, but it is not always clear where the edges lie. Even the word ‘stump’ is used to describe both the body that is maimed and the prosthetic that replaces it.
The blurred divisions between man and machine also bring to light our own behavioral processes; the made becomes a reflection of its maker. In his film, The Thieving Hand, Thomas Alva Edison portrays an armless beggar, provided with a prosthetic arm once belonging to a thief, and against his will (but not the arm’s), starts stealing. Such transfers of human agency to material objects can leave us at their mercy, however many artists actively seek out this displacement of authority.
‘Prosthetic Impulse’ is an exploration into the function of the ‘art machine’: constructed devices that assume the role of the artist. This exhibition will investigate the effects of bypassing human agency, challenging the authority of the artist in the production of an artwork, questioning where and when the creative act actually occurs. It will also explore how the act of distancing the artist’s hand from the creative process can be used to generate chance procedures.
This is a call out for artists who construct devices as a process of creating work. It is essential the works bear reference to their making process, or alternatively the art machines themselves can be exhibited as art objects in their own right. These could range from the highly technical to the unassumingly simple. Any mediums are welcome. Work can be static or kinetic; digital or analogue; interactive, performative, 2D, 3D, installation, moving image, sound, or anything in between.
Submission details:
Submission must include artists statement (200 words max), exhibition proposal (500 words max), supporting images (jpeg, max 1mb each) and link to website and/or blog.
If submitting video or sound work provide an online link or send file (five minutes max)
Email Jack and Kate at:
prostheticimpulse@fringeartsbath.co.uk
Deadline for submission is 14th February 2015. Any submissions after this date will not be considered.
Submission is free, but selected artists will be asked to pay an exhibiting fee of £15. All necessary equipment must be supllied and insured by the artist.
We look forward to your submissions,
Jack Parrott and Kate Parrott
(Sigmund Freud, Civilisation and Its Discontents).
In modern culture, the creation and use of prosthetics is commonplace. From pacemakers to cameras, we replace limbs; substitute human interaction; even supplant memory. Man and machine have become inexplicably intertwined in their co-dependence, but it is not always clear where the edges lie. Even the word ‘stump’ is used to describe both the body that is maimed and the prosthetic that replaces it.
The blurred divisions between man and machine also bring to light our own behavioral processes; the made becomes a reflection of its maker. In his film, The Thieving Hand, Thomas Alva Edison portrays an armless beggar, provided with a prosthetic arm once belonging to a thief, and against his will (but not the arm’s), starts stealing. Such transfers of human agency to material objects can leave us at their mercy, however many artists actively seek out this displacement of authority.
‘Prosthetic Impulse’ is an exploration into the function of the ‘art machine’: constructed devices that assume the role of the artist. This exhibition will investigate the effects of bypassing human agency, challenging the authority of the artist in the production of an artwork, questioning where and when the creative act actually occurs. It will also explore how the act of distancing the artist’s hand from the creative process can be used to generate chance procedures.
This is a call out for artists who construct devices as a process of creating work. It is essential the works bear reference to their making process, or alternatively the art machines themselves can be exhibited as art objects in their own right. These could range from the highly technical to the unassumingly simple. Any mediums are welcome. Work can be static or kinetic; digital or analogue; interactive, performative, 2D, 3D, installation, moving image, sound, or anything in between.
Submission details:
Submission must include artists statement (200 words max), exhibition proposal (500 words max), supporting images (jpeg, max 1mb each) and link to website and/or blog.
If submitting video or sound work provide an online link or send file (five minutes max)
Email Jack and Kate at:
prostheticimpulse@fringeartsbath.co.uk
Deadline for submission is 14th February 2015. Any submissions after this date will not be considered.
Submission is free, but selected artists will be asked to pay an exhibiting fee of £15. All necessary equipment must be supllied and insured by the artist.
We look forward to your submissions,
Jack Parrott and Kate Parrott
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