For those of you near Surry Hills, Sydney, title link takes you to an art showing featuring Andrew Gadow /Techne - Auxons at Firstdraft Gallery. The show runs Wednesday January 31 to Saturday February 17, 2007.philT sent me a link to an interesting commentary on Signal To Noise where I read about the showing. The commentary is on breaking things down to it's essence. The following are a couple of excerpts.
"One guy whose name has been lost to us was approaching the whole video-sculpture nexus in a very literal way – he was breaking down VCRs, cameras and video projectors into their constituent parts while trying to keep the machines operating even when they were in pieces.. A video feed from a still working video camera relayed a jittery image to projector that threw an image on to a wall. Asked what he was doing with his ‘project’, the artist – surrounded by the gizzards of machines - fumbled for words eventually stating “What I’m trying to do is… I’m… taking it all back to signal.”
"The work of Andrew Gadow at Firstdraft and his show Techne – Auxons deals with similar territory. Like that long forgotten artist, Gadow is working with feed as the essential element of his project, creating a three gallery daisy chain that begins with a vintage Fairlight CVI - an 80s era video synthesizer that creates patterns and distorts images – producing an image which then feeds the audio output of the CVI into an audio synth in the next gallery which in turn creates audio that in turn is fed into another CVI before going through another iteration into the final gallery space."
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