Dances with Digits

All the work in this show investigates of digital imagery/photography as art. It has been usual to treat the internet as a means to show work in other media. This is a show of imagery that could not have existed without digitization. What you see, is more or less, what you get. Each gallery contains a different kind of digital image as part of an ongoing effort to discover how digital images might be inflected in terms of the history of their making rather than by a brutal rearrangement after the fact. Remarkably every form of digital image, tv, scan, digital camera, video camera, etc, bears a unique signature, hand made images also have a media signature that inflects all digital form with a permanent trace.

 

Gallery One

Gallery One contains images of the memory landscape we have all taken on daily since the advent of television which brought electronic imagery into competition with the wallpaper and cheap reproductions of Van Gogh. Every Friday night in the early 1960’s most of Britain watched comedian Tony Hancock. So did I, thus downloading all kinds of details through the corners of my eyes. This memory landscape still exists in the gaps in the action – an empty lift lobby for instance. I have recovered elements of it from videotape and juxtaposed them with images of my current landscape of the overlooked. The result is twelve possible prints silkscreen or whatever entitled  Scenes from a Life, but whose life?

 

Gallery Two

Gallery Two is about reproduction the nine paintings and three digital collages in this section engage the possible potential of digital media to enlarge the logic of painted imagery and its psychic bases, to get right in there with the painters practical imagination once again the ironic limits of the relationship are easily appreciated. The paintings are A3 acrylic on paper, folded maps, gestural territories.

Gallery Three

Gallery Three is a folio of performance residues chosen from several hundred images  also conceived as A3 prints but they could also be displayed on a huge scale as an installation. The performance Blasenheit Macht Frei by David Brown and Martin Heine involved filling the Garage Gallery Grafton st Meltham with hand inflated condoms.

 

Gallery Four 

 

Gallery Four is an ongoing erotic mood novel. Traditional notions of complex collage are extended using nineteenth century devotional prints as an exploration of fantasy and the frozen ecstastic obsession of our forever-imaged emotions. In Digital Shunga, the operation of photoshop imagery in layers will parallel the erotic layering of Japanese prints. A new erotic work will appear every two to three days days, a trace of my  fancy. 

Prices

Prints are available of all these works in editions of  5, A3 with two artist’s proofs.

Digital prints (c20 year permanency) single sheet  $50 Folio of ten $500.0.     

Silk Screen (fully permanent) single sheet $200 Folio of  ten $1,800.00.

Original paintings are $300.00 unframed.

Order via  fax 9328 4260. Or email  <bromfiel@wa1.quik.com.au>