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Artie Vierkant - Immaterial vs Material

Post Digital Cultures, 6-7.12.2013, Lausanne Symposium presented by the Federal Office of Culture (FOC), Switzerland and Les Urbaines Artie Vierkant -- Immaterial vs Material ABSTRACT Artie Vierkant is an artist based in New York, as well as the author of a 2010 text titled The Image Object Post-Internet. This text was released at a time when the term Post-Internet—loosely defined as a condition of production, when the Internet and other new technologies become less of a novelty and more a banality—was first starting to turn into a popular subject for debate. Vierkant will present a selection of his work, alongside some discussion of the ways in which contemporary modes of production have enabled a shift in artists practice. A central question will be whether these changes truly enable a kind of practice divorced from traditional materials, or whether thus far we have merely seen works that are augmented by new forms. Vierkant himself creates projects that often have a dual life between an 'immaterial' form and a material object, deliberately playing into the perceived space between the two and suggesting that all forms are already in some way hybrid. An example of this is Vierkant's ongoing series Image Objects, a series of sculptural prints that have a dual life as both objects and as disseminated images. Each time the Image Objects are photographed, Vierkant alters the documentation in such a way that obscures the object in the space and creates an alternative version of the object than what could be possible in physical space. This intervention within the space of documentation is intended to bridge the division between what we would traditionally identify as a 'primary' or 'secondary' experience of the work. Vierkant will share some of his thoughts on the Image Objects and other works, including a new series called Exploits, first presented in the fall of this year.