Indepth Arts News:
"Mary Bates Neubauer: New Work"
2007-08-09 until 2007-09-01
Los Angeles Center For Digital Art
Los Angeles, CA,
USA United States of America
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art presents "Mary Bates Neubauer: New Work" from August 9 to September 1, 2007. Mary Neubauer's current work uses visual information obtained through
digital processes to create and record 3D data. Illuminated, processed
photograms, laser-scanned images, animations, and rapid prototypes are
combined with more traditional casting and replication techniques to
address contemporary science and its information-gathering methods. The
work examines the way collectible materials are archived, and data is
acquired, valued, and presented. It raises questions about how scientific
and technical findings are interpreted and what effect this has upon our
understanding of the nature of empirical evidence.
The surfaces and translucency of the sculptural and virtual artworks give
them properties of inner life and animation despite their digitally
archived nature, pointing out qualities of inherent spirituality, tactile
beauty, and luminosity. While the work retains the touch of the artists'
hand, it also reveals the artifacts of the digital processes through which
it has been taken, such as layering and rasterization.
Recent research into the visual transcription of numerical data streams
involves collecting historical and near-real-time statistics from the
various instruments which are constantly recording details of our
surroundings, such as climate, solar activity, water levels, traffic flow,
energy expenditure, and population flux. Incoming information is
translated in several steps, from columns of numbers to 3D visual
patterns. Captured and interpreted through video displays as evolving
animations, this streaming data is intended to keep the viewer informed
with a lively, ongoing sense of the immediate activity and functions of
the world. Visualizations of larger historical cycles of events are
captured through 3D models which are rapid prototyped. Through this work,
viewers have access to many ways of seeing previously inaccessible
information. The intent is to provide an easily readable way of
understanding some of the living functions of our surroundings through
incoming data, formerly only statistically decipherable. This type of
inside information can give us a new view of the complexity of our natural
and urban environment as a functioning entity with a hidden, and
fascinating, life of its own.
Mary Bates Neubauer, BFA- Sculpture Colorado State University 1973, MFA-
Sculpture Indiana University Bloomington, 1981.Bates Neubauer is a
professor in the sculpture department at Arizona State University, where
she runs the foundry program. She is also affiliated with ASU's
Partnership for Research in Spatial Modeling She is represented by Bentley
Gallery/ Projects in Phoenix, AZ and the William Havu Gallery in Denver.
She was the recipient of a Ford Fellowship while at Indiana University and
later won a Fulbright Fellowship for study in Cambridge, England. She has
been a guest artist at the John Michael Kohler Center Arts/Industry
program, Oxbow, the University of Minnesota, San Jose State University,
Edinburgh School of Art, Scotland, the Falmouth School of Art in Cornwall,
England, CAST, Ltd. in Dublin, Ireland, and other institutions. She has
served in residencies at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop and the Anderson
Ranch Arts Center in Aspen, Colorado. This summer, she has been an artist
in residence at the American Academy in Rome. Her work recently won
first prize at Ars Mathmatica, an international digital art competition.
Bates Neubauer exhibits her sculpture and digital prints nationally and
internationally and has completed several public commissions in the
western states. Her work can be found in a number of private and public
collections.
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