An apology made for the matter of material in metaversal times, 2023-ongoing
An apology made for the matter of material in metaversal times (AMMMMT, for short) explores tensions that persist when digital immersion chafes against the phenomenological boundaries of experience and against the material reality of technological progress. The multiple installments of the project engage with embodied reactions to technological interaction. A particular thread throughout is the psychological, even ontological, divide we appear to construct between digital space and tangible reality. Such dynamics are not one-directional, though, and the modification of different realities (real, virtual, fictionalized) can be imagined as a dynamic correlation.
To help convey this entanglement of virtual and visceral, the main sculptural pieces featured in the project serve as critical links between process and concept. They are constructed using a basic, pulpy artistic material—papier-mâché (wheat, water, paper)—and the final works act in conjunction with, and as counterpoint to, more advanced technological tools, such as those of digital image making and processing.