Omaha artist Scott Blake will present his barcode artworks in Vienna. Scott is well-known for his cheeky bar code art.
Scott Blake takes barcodes and turns them into art - art that is simultaneously pop and op, intellectual and personal, minimal and ocular. He employs the black and white symbol of standardization and efficiency - to craft a subversive style of digital pointillism. Large-scale iconography of celebrities examines the relationship between the individual and the media commodity - the human being and his or her adaptation to pixilated, simplified cultural symbol. Since he began working with digital pointillism in 1998, Blake's paintings, videos, and net art have been featured in a score of publications, including The New York Times, Adbusters, FHM Magazine, and Art Papers. The recipient of an Adobe Design Achievement Award from the creators of Photoshop, Blake's pieces can be found in private collections throughout the world. In addition, his work has been commissioned by parties ranging from the University of Ottawa to Jane Fonda.
@ QDK Space, Museumsquartier Vienna; December 5, 2007; 7 PM. Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
