ARTIST TALK: McDowell

NOTES;

sabbatical-

focus on technical work in non traditional arts.

English major, media studies, art histories

critique of and pleasure in Technogy

wonder and banality in the digtial landscape

technooglal forms of expression as non market and cpatial oriented forms

early works- worknig in blender mimicing one to ne dutch paintings creating a disconnect and relatinoship between relatiy and fiction and representations of reality.

dutch flower paintings tied to the market and the relationship between art and corprations.

hisotrical era of european colonial and the modern expansion of the metaverse and digtal imperalism.

how words change there meaning in the dgital realm

-Sacred vessels of the metaverse 2022-2025

augmented relaitly aniations etention fo the imgated ritual of the created mythogly

"axie infinty" hope and change and the underlying violence

midjourney

Sabbatical breathrough: unreal engine -meta human avatar

move ai cellphone capture creating a figure within the work and focus on ai

reading and the elcetion, the films the embrance of absurtiy

tablow based film still frames

language of the obsertty of the tech industrty

truth adn the contrction o reality and knowldge

substence vs content and ai

unparralled video: video for imaginary product feature an advacned ai chatpot offering personalied and promised contrasted the bynility of the subject

"ungrreatful for the opurtunity to partipate"

the wrong bennial

serbia residency paganism and the hisotry of folklore in the region

historcal parrelel and imaginne future

belgrade ethno graphic museum

working

byrdcliffe art residency- high presit work in progress (meta human and unreal enigne)

men at the head of tech companies that are at the head of defense companies and write manifesto esque writitng.

positiong themselves as progressive but are perpatrate the violence through ai (amerian first)

manifestos fed into chat gpt fo script