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ANTMASTER IV THE LEAGUE OF IMAGINARY SCIENTISTS

11 MAY 2009 05 JUNE 2009
CNSI ART|SCI GALLERY EDA, UCLA BROAD ART CENTER

Antmaster IV is an experiment in Ecological concepts of continuity and
hybridizing Dynamic Media (projections) interdependence are renegade forces.
with Static Media (paintings.) They not only transform existing
Digitally projected images of live ants patterns of material consumption
are superimposed onto painted surfaces and production, they destabilize
to achieve a new amalgam of motion and social values and disrupt aesthetic
still images. In addition, nanosounds conventions. Even the notion of beauty
of ants moving and communicating is overhauled by the ecological mandate
were recorded in James Gimzewski’s to embrace all aspects of the life cycle
Nanoscience Lab to act as a soundtrack – decay as well as growth. Artists who
to the pieces. demonstrate radical beauty are renegade
aestheticists. They demonstrate that the
Through experiments in sound and re- greening of society depends as much upon
envisioning experiences common within revising human values as reforming human
everyday life, Gil’s aim is to push behaviors.
people away from paradigmatic thinking.
He takes a whimsical approach in
subverting common perceptions of
reality. By exaggerating perception
and derailing reality, Gil redefines
the familiarity we associate with the
organic and social processes that
surround us.

Images courtesy of the League of
Imaginary Scientists.

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