EXHIBIT

aisforapple

sandler

"Encodings" - January 27 - March 6, 2003
Opening Reception: February 27, 2003, 5 pm
Hours: Monday - Friday, 9-5
Saturday & Sunday, 1-4
or by appointment
(860) 439-2740 for information

Artists' Talks
February 27, 2003, 3:30-4:30
Evans Hall, Cummings Arts Center
Connecticut College

Curators’ Statement
This exhibition explores a range of works through various media associated
with the idea of encoding/decoding information. Data storage or retrieval,
signal, noise, the conversion of information into another form in order to
find meaning in chaos are all processes that are reminiscent in these
works.


David Clark's 'aisforapple' draws on numerous associations of the apple in
culture and throughout history to create an online work that allows the
user to explore connections of ideas in a non-linear form.

stanfield

pachikara

Ilan Sandler collects video footage as he rolls a 10' steel ball frame
through the streets of New London, Connecticut. This video footage is
edited and projected as part of "Roaming Eyeball" installation. Sandler
states "the work intent is to integrate a sculpture that has uniquely
absorbed imagery of the town with a context in which an eye has gone
beyond its functional nature".



Peter Stanfield's small and delicate wall constructions holds texts that
present larger than life statements that summon relations to physics,
mathematics, and creativity. Stanfield "studies the dynamic relationship
between the quantifiable and the creative, including the mechanical
aspects of our bodies and the creative aspects of nature. (And vice
versa.) My aim, just as with science, is to try to find meaning in chaos
and explore a wide range of relationships between humans and technical
systems of all kinds."



Cynthia Pachikara's work, through the use of projected light and shadows,
explores notions of boundaries, point of origin, point of destination,
movement and identity. Pachikara states: "Using theater lighting
techniques, my work conceives of the viewer's "shadow body" as a void
waiting to be filled with implicative video and photographic projections.
While being an occlusion to the light, the viewer's body, by generating a
shadow, creates a figurative aperture for reaching hidden layers of
imagery. Establishing the observer's body as such a gate, my work
addresses not only the social contingency of her/his gazing in (and
beyond) a space, but visualizes the notion of the "body-as-screen."

'Encodings' is part of "Transparent Technologies," the 9th biennial
symposium on Arts and Technology, sponsored by the Ammerman Center for
Arts and Technology at Connecticut College.