“Productions” – Seminar – taught by Clay Odom

Through the instrumentalization of material, not form (in this case the meeting of light and acrylic), as well as the manipulation of the principles of refraction, this object forces the viewer to become the active subject of a production. There is no single, privileged view of the object, which in and of itself has no boundary, only a physical limit of its material environment. The understanding of what is actual is undermined by the virtual conditions; reality is destabilized but not overthrown. This estrangement is a speculative realism, an affect, an aesthetic atmosphere, and it has no narrative or agenda, only questions. Why do you see something different than I do? What am I looking at? Where is the object?

Diagram

Ghost 1

Fringe 1

Rotation

Pulses Per Inch 1

Ghost 2

Fringe 2

Ghost 3

Pulses Per Inch 2

Fringe 3