Paul Vanouse: .com(posite), .org(anism) | INTRO | ARTWORK | TEXTS | INFO |
Paul Vanouse is
an
artist
working in Emerging Media forms and a SUNY Distinguished Professor at
the University at Buffalo. Radical interdisciplinarity
and
impassioned amateurism guide his practice. |
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Since
the early 1990s his artwork has addressed complex
issues raised by
varied new techno-sciences using these very
techno-sciences as a
medium. His artworks have included data
collection devices that
examine
the ramifications of polling and categorization,
genetic experiments
that undermine scientific constructions of race and
identity, and
temporary organizations that playfully critique
institutionalization
and corporatization. These "Operational Fictions" are
hybrid
entities--simultaneously real things and fanciful
representations--intended to resonate in the equally
hyper-real context
of the contemporary electronic landscape. (photo: Shasti O'Leary Soudant) |