Process Research
Exploratory Making: Exploration 3
I built my curiosity syllabus in Notion, since I wanted an at-a-glance gallery view of all subject matters and mediums that I’m interested in so far.
I jotted down my ideas from our exercise during class as pages, for future development opportunities, and linked them to related channels. As I explore more, I definitely foresee a lot more main channels, embedded with inspiration and ideas.
For more specific ideas, like my Minecraft block on that is in action now, the subpage includes more specific inspiration and process. After our in-class project brief composition, I thought it’d be a great add to this collection that I can continue to reference, maybe even after this project is “complete” for me.
Rhizome
Viktor Timofeev is a Latvian artist based in Brooklyn, and he works with various types of media, from pastels to VR. In his interview he notes, “I regularly work in different media in tandem, and don’t establish a hierarchy between them.” This outlook stuck out to me because I’ve been wanting to explore outside of digital work, which I’ve been doing almost exclusively. Below are three diffferent works of his, each with extremely different forms, but when he talks about them, they all somehow fit into his “Viktor-world.”
“Viktor-world” is an umbrella term for a set of recurring themes that I can’t seem to get away from. …It is largely a black and white world, populated by towering building blocks, infinite horizons, unreadable languages, and tessellating fractals. Everything in it is characterized by an unsettled tension between pairs of opposites: chaos and order, humor and despair, subject and object, micro and macro, improvisation and structure, signal and noise, reality and imagination, fact and fiction. — Viktor Timofeev
I found it so interesting that he could in a way, categorize all his work, regardless of medium, into his world. I also think the concept of having your own little world is cute. :) I will say, I think the way he talks about it as something he “can’t seem to get away from” felt a little sadto me. I would want for my own world to be a collection of things I love! It’s something that I would want to ask Viktor about: Does he enjoy that “Viktor-world” is something he always comes back to, or does he really want to but can’t escape this pattern?
Recess Art
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Honestly kind of hard to find info about John Miserendino, but he received a BA in Architecture and seems to make a lot of structure. I was drawn to the Pavilion because of the structure and the projection. I also saw that it was a reinterpretation of Dan Graham’s structures. Within the Pavilion he would reenact three existing artworks, using discarded objects and choreography from the originals. Though the vision and purpose of these reenactments were a bit difficult for me to grasp, it reflected to me the power of sourcing from external and existing things.
I’m more interested and intrigued by looking around the space, looking at the structure, than the reenactments. I also think it would be such a cool experience if the structure was an enclosed room or interactive space that I could wander around. Despite the performance aspect not resonating with me, the space and notion of repurposing existing work did.
Revisiting My Creative Syllabus
Looking at Viktor Timofeev’s work reminded me of the Digital Garden, where there is so much variety, but can still be interconnected. It helped me see that even my love for cats was not exclusive to all the tech I could play with. Pavilion reminded me of my earlier discovery that even things we identify with or internalize is often inspired by external sources. It further encourages me to look outside of myself rather than feel trapped in needing to be entirely original.
