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Project: From the mouth of Chrysippus
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This is a detail shot. Host Object is a sculpture is based on a mathematical shape called a Koch snowflake. This shape describes a mathematical form which follows a logical order. The Koch can be used to describe both complex abstract ideas and observable forms and shapes in the natural world. This duality was of particular interest. The patterns are taken from within 3D modelling software before a virtual object has a mesh or skin. The sculptural form rests upon a print of a digital glitch/error, which is aesthetically linked to the video artwork From the Mouth of Chrysippus, projected alongside.
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In Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book The Selfish Gene, he described the importance of memes in human culture, describing a meme as “an idea, behaviour, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture”. I was fascinated by the idea of logic as a replicating, shape-shifting entity which had travelled from ancient Greece into the computers we use. Mimeme is a sculpture that creates an unknown state between what logic was and what it has become. That idea of the alien unknown, which is outside of our human sphere of knowledge, was important to the development of this piece.
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The ancient Greek word for ‘logic’ translates as what is spoken. The ancient Greek words and statements seem to extrude or stretch in a way, which reminds me of time. The words I constructed from wood in A/Lambadaare English translations of Greek words which laid the foundation for mathematical logic and computer languages. The physical words were designed to be used in structured arguments, in a way which lead to finding out the truth of a sentence from the miss-truths. The physical font that forms the sculpture is very much drawn from the aesthetic of the digital age and post-internet discourses.
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Projected HD video piece. The roots of this project lies with the ancient Greek philosophers and mathematicians who sought out truth, and looked for it within the rules and logic of language. The work takes logic as its point of departure - its journey as a shape-shifting entity from ancient Greece into the computer languages we use today. Link: https://vimeo.com/217288363
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Curriculum vitae
Opleidingen
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2017 - 2019Masters in ArtScience De Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in Den Haag
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2007 - 2011Hon Degree Fine Art Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, Ireland Diploma behaald
tentoonstellingen
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2018Please Touch: Tactile Encounters, The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Ireland The sense of touch implies a relationship of intimacy. However, while we can look closely at artworks, museums must usually discourage direct handling in order to protect fragile and delicate surfaces. Please Touch is an exception, allowing a physical response to works by four Irish contemporary artists whose individual practices often emphasise texture and tangibility. Our audiences are invited to get up close and personal, feeling the textures of the artwork, its folds and crevices, edges and angles, and the ways in which different materials become integrated into a single object. From intricate geometrical shapes to skin-like resin surfaces, assemblages of diverse materials to artworks you can wear, Please Touch emphasises the value of an embodied encounter with visual art. Groep
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2017Futures, Royal Hibernian Academy, Ireland RHA’s exhibition of emerging artists first took place in June 2001, now fifteen years later we think it is as challenging and as exciting as ever. Over the past three years a new group of artists have emerged (and remember nearly all of our Futures exhibitions are inter-generational). This will be the first of three annual shows looking at the diversity and range of this next wave. Futures, Series 3, Episode 1 will include work by artists Richard Forrest, Kevin Gaffney, Ann Maria Healy, Elaine Hoey, Ali Kirby, Jane Locke and Jane Rainey. Groep
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2017A Bounce Borrowed, The Dock, Ireland A Bounce Borrowed brings together five artists, each bringing fresh and distinct approaches to their art making. They are collectively motivated by an interest in the play and interplay of materials. The works are also an expression of the artists familiarity and confidence in how materials and ideas might coalesce. The title of the exhibition is a reference to joy and attempts to evoke the special kind of energy that can happen within a group exhibition. It also references a shared interest in play and delight that can be found in the conversations that might emerge in bringing together works from such diverse approaches to making art and the pleasure and consequent energy that can be encountered. Groep
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2017Glitch, RUARED, Dublin Glitch Festival has grown into Ireland’s foremost digital arts festival. We work to bring the best of digital arts practices to the fore. Glitch Festival brings leading media and technology artists, curators and artist groups together with audiences to draw out connections between art, culture and technology with the aim of fostering greater critical understanding and debate around artist’s interaction, investigation and intersection with technologies. Groep
projecten
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From the mouth of Chrysippus Royal Hibernian Academy Futures, Royal Hibernian Academy, Ireland, Ierland www.richardforrest.info/from-the-mouth-of-chrysippus.html The roots of this project lies with the ancient Greek philosophers and mathematicians who sought out truth, and looked for it within the rules and logic of language. The work takes logic as its point of departure - its journey as a shape-shifting entity from ancient Greece into the computer languages we use today.
opdrachten
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2015Facebook European HQ Ireland, Ierland Commission in Facebooks European Headquarters. www.richardforrest.info/facebook.html Uitgevoerd
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2012The Lewis Glucksman Gallery Ireland, Ierland Commission Uitgevoerd
publicaties
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Vertegenwoordiging
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--MART Ireland
artistieke nevenactiviteiten
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2014 - 2018Visual Artists Ireland: Board of Directors