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Artist Exhibitions:
::A Muse Gallery (2Muse at
Global Living)::
Grandview Heights, OH
Strata, Ohio Artists
www.amusegallery.com/index.htm
::Agora Gallery (SoHo)::
New York City, New York
"Pixel Perfect: The Annual
Digital Fine Art Exhibition"
Exhibition Dates: 12/8/2004 -
1/4/2005
http://www.agora-gallery.com/sp
ecialExhibPixelPerfect.asp
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Artist Galleries:
www.amusegallery.com
Museum of Computer Art (MOCA)
http://moca.virtual.museum/gues
t/senecal_66/senecal01.htm
www.agora-gallery.com
www.art-mine.com
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Artist Reviews:
"Strata" Exhibit
Review--2Muse Gallery, 2005
"...Senecal sticks to machines
with his digitally altered
prints, his pieces bring an
enticing organic quality to
the man-manipulated. They’re
both cutting-edge and
timeless, like
computer-generated art rarely
is."
http://www.columbusalive.com/20
05/20050330/033005/03300506.htm
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Collections:
Private collectors, Denmark,
Spain, U.S., France, Germany,
Scotland.
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for David Senecal
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--The idea behind the Art--
Anthropology tells us that as humans, we adapt to our environment through the adoption of cultural strategies rather than through sheer dependence upon genetic predisposition. As an artist, I am interested in the evolutionary effect upon human beings as a result. Sounds pretty wordy and pretentious right? So let me break this down into:
--The section for people who hate long artists statements--
I will try to sum it up for you in one phrase:
The technology we use influences who we are and more importantly, who we are becoming.
--The section for people who love long artist statements--
The blurring of the line between what humans are and what they invent is a part of the cultural record being written right now. It is the creative element of culture, which compels us to examine and record in both the intuitive and the logical spheres of art and science, that has become fascinating to me. The discussion of nanotechnology and the developing relationships between humans and their invented devices (the very technological products of human culture which contribute to the strategies of adaptation) is what I find myself addressing more and more in my artwork. Clothing that was made to replace the fur we lost as we became human has now "evolved" with us and is being made to accommodate the devices we've created to serve as cybernetic extensions of our bodies (cell phones, PDAs, pagers, etc).
I’m intrigued by philosophies such as Transhumanism, which encourage the exploration of the possibility for uploading of human consciousness into machine hosts. That there is serious discussion and in some limited success actual application of, microscopic devices that will transform medical and manufacturing industries is also a topic I find interesting. Does art-making serve as part of a cultural strategy for adaptation? I would say yes of course. Art making was present at the birth of culture and has been an essential device for the examination, recording, and further exploration of our progress as a species.
Though the technology I use to create my work is among the most recent, the resulting art remains linked to one of the earliest human traditions of using cultural strategies for adaptation. In this way, I work almost in the capacity of an anthropologist, aware of being a part of the process of adaptation even while it is occurring.
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