Multiple 1.33:1 (2010)
mixed media
'David Jablonowski questions the potential of communication in contemporary visual culture. Through sculpture and film, he explores the way language is established and developed and then reproduced technically in relation to political and historical discourse. Jablonowski's interest in display systems and information transfer has as much to do with the hardware that is used in the staging of knowledge as it has with the knowledge itself. The repetitive and unsustainable promise of a valid direction of communication is expressed in works which question the understanding of sign systems; making us aware of the transience of visual language.' - http://www.iscp-nyc.org/artists/current/david-jablonowski.html
I first came across this piece last month in an issue (No 350) of Art Monthly, in an article about the supposed dissolution of mass culture due to the digitisation of public time and space. The more that I'm reading on subjects such as these the more it seems that the concern isn't that we will become consumed by technology and lose our connection with the physical, but in fact, whether we already are/have and don't know it. It's about as determinable as an analysis of the origins and principles of postmodernism, so I'm guessing the more that I read, the less that I'll know. What I do know though is that it is really pertinent to my choice of media.
The piece above, one of a series of similar pieces in an exhibition called perfection, simple, way, is comprised of a hunk of plaster trying to feed itself into/through a laptop, seemingly in an attempt to digitise itself.
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