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Suprematist Composition I,II, III
Interactive Digital Video Installation
Hide & Seek, Hans Weiss New Space Gallery, Manchester Community College, CT
October 2005 |
Suprematist Compostion V
Interactive Digital Video Installation
ACM-SIGGRAPH 2006 Art Gallery, 33rd International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Boston, MA July–August 2006 |
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Suprematist Composition V
explores the space between stillness, expectation, surprise or confirmation.
Opening the window of the porthole triggers
the display of a digital video. Closing the porthole window triggers the redisplay of
the Suprematist Cross.
This work is part of a continuing series that
re-investigates or remediates the early 20th century reductionist impulse as seen in
Russian Suprematist art. Exploring the possibilities enabled by technologies of interaction, Suprematist Composition V
not only "refashions" a prior media form
but turns it on its head by including prohibited subject matter.
For Kazimir Malevich, "the supremacy of pure sensation" was the guiding principle and was best expressed by non-objective abstract geometric forms (square, circle, cross). |
However pure sensation gives way to expectation inspired by the moving image
and furthered by interactivity. Although the visual syntax of narrative film is avoided, a story is told as the viewer constructs a new experience, lasting as long as he or she wishes.
fMRI brain studies reveal that as we gaze at
a semi-clad body, male or female, localized areas like the anterior cingulated cortices
light up in response to this "pure sensation" leading to a cascade of associations,
memories and emotional responses.
Noting the affinity between the work of Malevich and Kandinsky's Weisses Kreuz (White Cross) of 1922, Lucy Flint observes "the cross is an evocative, symbolic form." Today its evocative power remains beyond "pure sensation." |
