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Plexus | CannulaTwo artworks by Daniel Canogar using digital frames,coding and the internet.
The first here is Plexus which is a moving array of various hand gestures:Plexus questions the hand of the artist as the origin of an artwork in the digital era. The clusters of hands seen in the artwork – those of the artist depict fingers weaving in the air to form undulating curtain-like formations. The rhythms of the hands resemble the choreography of Busby Berkeley and Esther Williams films from the 1930s, as well as the use of humans as mass decoration in the Third Reichs Nuremberg parades. Hands, or so present through the history of art since the first cave paintings,here succumb to multiple synchronized rhythms, evoking the mass production of the global market. More HereThe second artwork is called Cannula which uses YouTube videos as foundations which are then abstracted into moving summary fluid forms:Searches I have recently performed on You Tube include “how to hang a heavy artwork on a drywall panel”, and “10 most popular videos with cats”,or “ex-athlete Bruce Jenner tells his daughters he will become a woman”. From the sinister to the banal, from educational to entertainment or the testimonial, or You Tube has exploded traditional media cannons. Anyone with a cell phone can potentially become an audiovisual director. The result is a relentless excess of fabric – 300 hours of new fabric uploaded every hour and more than a billion videos presently available on the site – that would hold 60000 years of uninterrupted viewing to see. It is impossible to catalogue or decipher this visual encyclopedia of the 21st Century. We are unable to cognitively process so much information. Cannula attempts to represent this cognitive overwhelm by turning You Tube videos into summary shapes. I often choose to generate content using rubbish found in my environment. In this case,I explore how You Tube
turns media into waste. Cannula evokes the fragmented visual mosaic that my brain contains after years of being exposed to this new window-onto-the-world we call Internet. More Here
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