The Body:

The physical material of an organism; the structure of a whole.

SURFACE AND MEMORY: A CONVERSATION WITH KATHIE FOLEY-MEYER

Patrick J. Reed
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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

Immediate Perception: A Conversation With Mo H. Zareei

Patrick J. Reed
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The artist and musician Mo H. Zareei joined curator Patrick J. Reed to discuss formative creative influences and “audio-visually confrontational works” that have the power to elicit raw emotion.

(Photograph by Ted Whitaker.)

  • Architecture
  • Perception
  • The Body
  • Vibration
  • 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
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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
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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

Souvenir

Ohan Breiding Shoghig Halajian
Issue: S9q2e49682e5

Inside this, another animal grows, then another, another. Eventually there are hundreds of thousands.

  • Fictions
  • Growth
  • Land and Sea
  • Networks
  • Perception
  • The Body
Close up of white mineral rock.

Anthropogenic Mineral Collection

Colleen Hargaden
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In the fall of 2020, I began gathering samples for what I’ve termed an Anthropogenic Mineral Collection. These carbon-based minerals consist of human-mediated byproducts of geological intervention from the Industrial Revolution to the present. The majority of those in my collection are caused by industrial mining of valuable conductors, and have not been recorded elsewhere as natural occurrences.

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Land and Sea
  • Networks
  • The Body
  • 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