For this commission, artist David Hanes remixed 47 out of 500+ images that Art F City staff members took during this year’s Frieze New York. The remixes are made with the same techniques he used to produce his “Aware” series, in which online images of gallery documentation become the source material for digital manipulations. Hanes revises these representations of cultural objects in anonymous spaces using Photoshop. The result are dark and vaguely unsettling photographs of emptied showrooms and bleached-out artwork.
Currently, David is working with publisher and editor Chris Mansour on a book project that will be using a curated selection of the “Aware” series.
Hanes, born in 1987 in Toronto, is an artist, curator, and DJ whose expanded sculptural practice examines the architecture of the Internet and the experience of art in the digital age. Exhibiting in both offline and online communities, David is presently finishing a residency in Roubaix, France and lives/works in Berlin.”His website, here. His galleries website, here.
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fabulous, i love artie verikant
It’s a genre. Artie Verikant didn’t invent it.
I don’t think you’re correct Paddy. I spoke with Artie “Verikant” personally and we discussed his image objects specifically. I distinctly remember us talking about using the ‘chisel hard’ bevel in photoshops blending options as well as the content aware AND healing brush tools. These are artistic techniques he pioneered and i think he should be credited with it.
Definitely a genre:
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Is this sponsored by Apple? I really love their sense of design. I love the commercials and they always feature the best new indie artists. I love indie art
I find it really interesting how the images are *blurred* in a sense. It reminds me that life is a MYSTERY and that the way we see things is BLURRED. It’s like that movie “what the bleep do we know?”. I think that is the most important piece of art of our time. We just go day to day thinking we KNOW things but we really don’t. It’s like my friend jared says, “you THINK you see the world clearly, but it’s really just a series of blurs in your blind spots. follow me on twitter”. I think he is hitting the nail on the head. It’s like, you basically see the world as this clear thing but you have this blind spot where your optical nerve is and your brain fills it in with information with what YOU WANT TO SEE, like an apple watch or something.
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I’ve been studying this artist for my thesis on blurry internet things and poor photoshop autodidacts. This artist is one of my favorites. I love how he was born in 1987 and lives in Berlin. As an American, those two facts seem so cool to me that I can totally look past any sense of meaning in this work. It’s really above that. He is above that. Living in berlin must be so cool. I’m not enough of an artists to really do that. I like to paint landscapes from my hometown, Lake Charles LA, and people seem to like that there but it will never be recognized internationally. I don’t even think they would let me in to Berlin. Oh, well, McNeese is a pretty good school actually. We have a sortof good English program so that is kind of cool.
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