Invisibility:

Society must accept some things as real; but [the artist] must always know that visible reality hides a deeper one, and that all our action and achievement rest on things unseen.—James Baldwin

SURFACE AND MEMORY: A CONVERSATION WITH KATHIE FOLEY-MEYER

Patrick J. Reed
Issue: 0i5 ni51g9nu

The artist and researcher Kathie Foley-Meyer joined curator Patrick J. Reed to discuss her creative practice and scholarship on ocean memory and the territoriality and temporality of Blackness.

  • Generation
  • Growth
  • Invisibility
  • Land and Sea
  • Networks
  • Perception
  • The Body
  • Visualization

TRISTAN DUKE: TRANSITIONAL LENSES

Patrick J. Reed
Issue: 60ScneSS292n

Artist Tristan Duke photographs the Placerita Oil Field and the Tehachapi Wind Resource Area using lenses made from frozen drinking water. Fulcrum Arts’ Curator, Patrick J. Reed, goes along for the ride.

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Generation
  • Growth
  • Invisibility
  • Land and Sea
  • Networks
  • Perception
  • System Failure
  • Visualization

Everywhere’s A Center: A Conversation With Channing Hansen

Patrick J. Reed
Issue: 84061964a24a

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
Two people stand in front of a wall on which green lasers make twisting shapes. The person on the left stands with their head inside of a console. The person on the right looks at the wall.

Alba Triana: Fundamental Insignia

Patrick J. Reed
Issue: 6c11enni4e q

Fulcrum Arts’ Curator, Patrick J. Reed, went to Ars Electronica, where he met the Miami-based, Colombian composer and sound artist Alba Triana, and learned about the essence of everything. This installment marks the first in a series of profiles on artists working with vibration and the ways in which it shapes our world.

  • Generation
  • Invisibility
  • Networks
  • Perception
  • The Body
  • Vibration
  • Visualization

Doctor, Doctor

Em Kettner
Issue: 921en3S26g25

The following story unfolds with a cadence all its own. It rewards the curious yet meets the overeager with a measured wait and see.

  • Digging
  • Fictions
  • Growth
  • Invisibility
  • Perception
  • System Failure
  • The Body
Cover - The Erosion of Silicon Beach

The Erosion of Silicon Beach

Nina Sarnelle
Issue: 933c4igqn5gg XXL

The tide line is a soft transition. Where capital meets the sea, it creates brittle structures, likely to shatter. The ocean’s edges may not be as fluid as they seem.

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Growth
  • Invisibility
  • Land and Sea
  • System Failure
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
Issue: n85 q377142q

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
Multicolor singular disk with a cube pattern on it. Out of focus ocean and horizon background.

The Erosion of Silicon Beach

Nina Sarnelle
Issue: 933c4igqn5gg

discomforting circularity turns in my stomach, thinking about Santa Monica’s full-circle from place of work to ‘workplace.’

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Growth
  • Invisibility
  • Land and Sea
  • System Failure