Cosmology:

In the West, the study of the physical universe defined as: 1) The uniqueness of the Universe: there exists only one; and 2) the physical situation that is the context in the large for human existence. But also: symbols, allegories, metaphors, and spirit; mirroring of heavens and earth; celestial bodies; the seen to explain the unseen.

Everywhere’s A Center: A Conversation With Channing Hansen

Patrick J. Reed
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At his Los Angeles studio, the artist Channing Hansen graciously hosted Fulcrum Arts curator Patrick J. Reed for a conversation about wool, the cosmos, weird topography (and more!), and how these elements come together in his complex, labor-intensive knitted artworks.

  • Cosmology
  • Generation
  • Invisibility
  • Networks
  • Perception
  • Visualization
Black and white photo of cables intersecting with one another on the concrete floor. The lower right corner displays the text: 2015/01/10 and 23:45:16 right below it.

Tes Heures

Na Mira
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04/19/2018 i move back to Seoul during the season of Yellow Dust. my infrared camera begins glitching like the shaman herself

  • Architecture
  • Cosmology
  • Fictions
  • Invisibility
  • Networks
  • Perception
  • Vibration
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Three Diffractions of LA

Suzanne Kite
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I talk to my cousin Corey Stover on the phone and he teaches me hokšíkilowaŋpi (to sing a lullaby); we are both cruelly out of tune. He is in Oglala Nation, I am in LA, and we perform our distance. He sings to me and I to him, a short melody. I watch LAPD helicopters out the window of 242 East Avenue 41 and compose a short drone.

  • Cosmology
  • Extraction
  • Fictions
  • Generation
  • Invisibility
  • System Failure
  • Visualization
A 2D image of a black and white ghost holding a flower stands in front a toilet and a red leather sofa. A mirror reflects an image of a child in the middle of the room. Below the image is a caption explaining the context of the image.

Ghosts and Flowers

Phillip Birch
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I kept considering what happens when liminal space becomes static—how we are all stuck in this transition with the expectation of a return of normalcy, but in actuality there is no neutral, there is no normal. Normal is a veneer in which a few have the privilege of living under.

  • Cosmology
  • Generation
  • Invisibility
  • System Failure
  • The Body
  • Visualization
AI-generated textile, cotton, training: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite images, 2020

ABOVE BELOW

Sarah Rosalena Balbuena-Brady
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Colonialism is rooted in the planetary imagination which fails to account for histories of structural racism based on geologic relations and the violent dispossession of indigenous lands. This resulted in legacies of destructive cartography and mapping now used in machine vision in space.

  • Cosmology
  • Extraction
  • Generation
  • Land and Sea
  • System Failure
  • The Body
  • Visualization