We're beginning to discuss our artist statements this week. My initial proposal, which was written roughly six months ago, is as follows:
I’ve always been very interested in the city as a place of communication. Within this lively, colorful and densely crowded space, there are literally millions of messages being transmitted at any given moment. Some of these messages are communicated quite directly, by means of expensive corporate ad campaigns that aim at capturing our attention as consumers. Other messages are less direct with their intent, for instance street graffiti. Such scribbles from spray paint and markers are the product of a much different culture, perhaps trying to tell society another story. Still yet, there are signs that direct us where to go, dictate the flow of traffic, and remind us all of the rules and laws we must obey as citizens.
I want to explore different forms of communication within the city. As one part of this project, I intend on using photography in conjunction with Adobe Illustrator. I want to capture images of the city where I feel there is a certain visual language being used to communicate a message we might not typically notice or consider as being relevant to our daily lives. These images will be brought together in a massive collage and re-stylized using a technique I’ve been experimenting with in Adobe Illustrator.
I also wish to explore the concept of communication overload using video as a medium. By displaying brief instances of different kinds of communication in our cities I plan on producing a unique texture of visual chaos that will hopefully represent some of the problems related to our era of “information overload.”
Finally, I plan on using the Situationism movement as well as Guy Deboard as inspiration for my ideas related to the city as a place of intereaction and communication.
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