As 2025 begins, this mini collection “Signal & Noise” harkens back to 2022 and then to the end of 2024, year of the dragon, with strong medicinal associations in Chinese culture.
The cubist / op art photo collages of glitching screens are put together in such a way as to make new patterns out of noise, and to see that duality of signal and noise rather differently, that there is pattern and purpose to all of it.
There are connections here to light and sound in general, and more specifically communications, electricity and magnetism, as well as chemistry and thermodynamics.
These seven pieces express the artful complexity of both technology and the natural from forces from which the tech arises and develops.
The most recent one, “Alloy Reformation,” compares the mixture of signal and noise to combining different materials.
One way of understanding noise is as the result movement, or reformation, in magnetic fields, the ability of particles and matter to change and travel.
Sometimes the subject matter for pieces and collections arises spontaneously, and this series is certainly a great example of that, in the unexpected beauty and insights from a ‘malfunction’ revealing a deeper layer of what is there. At first glance, the screens are going haywire; upon further observation, one can see behind the scenes of what makes these amazing communications possible.
The configurations and editing of the photographs could be described as cubist, sort of baroque/rococo influenced in a couple of them, pop art in the re-representation, and definitely glitch in the aesthetic.
The Signal & Noise series is available in the shop as a group or individual large metal prints.
Studio Multimedia Update:
In December 2024, “Electric Echoes: A Cosmic Tech Opera” received an ASCAP Plus Concert Music Award.
Recent releases on OCTAVES Music include: “Soul Of A City” and “Merry & Bright” by Artemis Amenti. Upcoming releases include: “Proof Of Life” by Artemis Amenti and classical guitar by Sarah Ikerd.
Another accomplishment for OCTAVES in 2024, is being approved by the American Recording Academy as a media company able to make entries to the Grammy Awards.
Recent art collaborations include extended digital/video installation for Greystar International, placement of selections from the Deco Botanicals collection in L+R Hotels’ Plam House Hotel thanks to Minda Dowling UK Art Consultant, and other placements with Gordon Brothers Financial facilitated by TurningArt.
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