Paul Vanouse: .com(posite), .org(anism) | INTRO | ARTWORK | WRITING | CURATING | 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) |