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Invisibility: Society must accept some things as real; but [the artist] must always know that visible reality hides a deeper one, and that all our action and achievement rest on things unseen.—James Baldwin

  • Cosmology
  • Generation
  • Invisibility
  • Networks
  • Perception
  • Visualization

EVERYWHERE’S A CENTER: A CONVERSATION WITH CHANNING HANSEN

Patrick J.
Reed
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At his Los Angeles studio, the artist Channing Hansen graciously hosted Fulcrum Arts curator Patrick J. Reed for a conversation about wool, the cosmos, weird topography (and more!), and how these elements come together in his complex, labor-intensive knitted artworks. (Image: The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe heat map of temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background. NASA / WMAP Science Team.)

  • Generation
  • Invisibility
  • Networks
  • Perception
  • The Body
  • Vibration
  • Visualization

Alba Triana: Fundamental Insignia

Patrick J.
Reed
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Two people stand in front of a wall on which green lasers make twisting shapes. The person on the left stands with their head inside of a console. The person on the right looks at the wall.

Fulcrum Arts’ Curator, Patrick J. Reed, went to Ars Electronica, where he met the Miami-based, Colombian composer and sound artist Alba Triana, and learned about the essence of everything. This installment marks the first in a series of profiles on artists working with vibration and the ways in which it shapes our world.

  • Digging
  • Fictions
  • Growth
  • Invisibility
  • Perception
  • System Failure
  • The Body

Doctor, Doctor

Em
Kettner
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The following story unfolds with a cadence all its own. It rewards the curious yet meets the overeager with a measured wait and see.

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Growth
  • Invisibility
  • Land and Sea
  • System Failure

The Erosion of Silicon Beach

Nina
Sarnelle
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The tide line is a soft transition. Where capital meets the sea, it creates brittle structures, likely to shatter. The ocean’s edges may not be as fluid as they seem.

  • Architecture
  • Cosmology
  • Fictions
  • Invisibility
  • Networks
  • Perception
  • Vibration

Tes Heures

Na
Mira
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Black and white photo of cables intersecting with one another on the concrete floor. The lower right corner displays the text: 2015/01/10 and 23:45:16 right below it.

04/19/2018 i move back to Seoul during the season of Yellow Dust. my infrared camera begins glitching like the shaman herself

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Growth
  • Invisibility
  • Land and Sea
  • System Failure

The Erosion of Silicon Beach

Nina
Sarnelle
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Multicolor singular disk with a cube pattern on it. Out of focus ocean and horizon background.

discomforting circularity turns in my stomach, thinking about Santa Monica’s full-circle from place of work to ‘workplace.’

  • Cosmology
  • Extraction
  • Fictions
  • Generation
  • Invisibility
  • System Failure
  • Visualization

Three Diffractions of LA

Suzanne
Kite
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I talk to my cousin Corey Stover on the phone and he teaches me hokšíkilowaŋpi (to sing a lullaby); we are both cruelly out of tune. He is in Oglala Nation, I am in LA, and we perform our distance. He sings to me and I to him, a short melody. I watch LAPD helicopters out the window of 242 East Avenue 41 and compose a short drone.

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Fictions
  • Generation
  • Invisibility

Spoils of a Lost Referent

Felipe
Meres
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A close- up of a graphically rendered teeth protruding a bronze mouth.

Despite the conclusion, the museum continues to exhibit the sculpture, claiming that it has acquired a modern cultural identity that transcends “issues of origin and genuineness” and stands as an “icon of the ever-changing perceptions and connoisseurship in the field of pre-Columbian studies.”

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