Artist Information:
Shamus Adam
Brooklyn, NY
United States
Member Since: May 2002
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Artist Statement:
Recording data to uncover a
history of movement,
experience and duration.
Recognizing common, usually
unacknowledged, personal
proofs to reveal and chart
encounters with existence.
Showing timelines through
unconventional subject
matters, repetitions, and
narratives. Tracking life and
exposing subtle truths in
passing.
In the Computer Icon series,
Shamus combines the ancient
media of mosaics with current
images of technology thus
introducing the old to the new
and questioning its
sustainability. In the
saturated age of digital
technology, new art forms
emerge and ideas transform
rapidly. Languages, concepts
and techniques succumb to
technology’s thrust forward.
Computer icons are symbols for
the language that is altering
our culture and with this
series he reveals an instant
amidst the transformation. How
will modern technology change
us in 10, 20, 30…100 years?
With the passive acceptance of
new technologies, are we
damaging ourselves? Mosaics
have survived thousands of
years; your computer is
obsolete in two.
The Nomad series is a
continuing project measuring
the habitation of dwellings
spanning a lifetime.
Documentation (images,
addresses and dates) of each
house where the artist has
lived is maintained to reveal
an unrealized history. The
project uses houses to
communicate an observation of
vitality, invoking
recollections of...
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Shamus Adam's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Shamus Adam's Portfolio. Browse Adam's body of work:
Recording data to uncover a history of movement, experience and duration. Recognizing common, usually unacknowledged, personal proofs to reveal and chart encounters with existence. Showing timelines through unconventional subject matters, repetitions, and narratives. Tracking life and exposing subtle truths in passing.
In the Computer Icon series, Shamus combines the ancient media of mosaics with current images of technology thus introducing the old to the new and questioning its sustainability. In the saturated age of digital technology, new art forms emerge and ideas transform rapidly. Languages, concepts and techniques succumb to technology’s thrust forward. Computer icons are symbols for the... |
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Zipped, 2002
Mosaic,
31 x 31 X 2 inches
Price: US$ 1000
€: 638
UK £: 495
¥en: 99326
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Organized, 2002
Mosaic,
31 x 31 X 2 inches
Price: US$ 1000
€: 638
UK £: 495
¥en: 99326
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Heard, 2002
Mosaic,
31 x 31 X 2 inches
Price: US$ 1000
€: 638
UK £: 495
¥en: 99326
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Connected, 2002
Mosaic,
31 x 31 X 2 inches
Availability: Sold
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