So I have started making drawing machines.
This comes mainly from a subconscious desire to automate the act of drawing and leave myself out of it; or so I say. I remember going to a grad show maybe my first year as an undergrad at Mason Gross and being really intrigued by Jonathan Gabel’s mechanical drawings, all done using drawing machines that he had created. They were really fun to look at an also very loaded, because if a machine can draw then whats the difference or value attached to a drawing done by a human being? …… yeah way heavy and thats just the top of the iceberg.
Plus I just recently discovered the work of Theo Jansen, a Dutch physicist-turned-artist, his work is amazing and in a way related to the drawing machines I am working on. This is a link to a short conversation with the guy, and the following is a youtube video of his machines:

I now have a motor that came from a massaging machine:

and it made this drawing once I attached sharpies to it:

and I just got this toy back home in West New York:

It is so sweet because its got an “on-board computer” that can be programmed to move the toy in all cardinal directions, plus it seems to have a very long memory which is very exciting in its raw potential:

So my vision for this toy right now is to make a drawing machine that will draw according to programed strings of numbers. Ideally I would program it to draw squares of different sizes, or perspective drawings or copies of M.C. Escher prints.
I also want to get a remote control car and make a drawing machine with it, and I also want to somehow connect this machine to the net or have it take commands from cellular devices, and maybe add cameras to them or MOTHERFUCKING GUNS! nah just pencils.

“HI-Tech Low-Tech: Up-to-date Contemporary Art”

September 27^th to Oct 3^rd

Opening reception and performances, Sept 27^th from 5 pm to 9pm

Space II III IV Gallery

234 Raritan Ave, Highland Park, NJ, 08904.

www.sarahwellington.com

Telephone Number: 201 543 0968 + 732 246 2400

Opening on September 27, 2007, Space II III IV is pleased to present the new exhibition “Hi Tech low Tech: Up-to-date Contemporary Art”, curated by recent Mason Gross BFA graduate Lenny Correa. The opening reception will include performances by local New Brunswick bands Tin Kitchen and Snake Vision as well as a how-to workshop on circuit bending and D-I-Y electronic modification. This event is free and open to the public.

The exhibit is comprised of fourteen local and international young artists whose mediums and modes of creation reflect today’s technology embedded culture. The results range from videos made with security camera footage to the assimilation of an internet persona in lurid amorous narrative acted out across social networking websites. This exhibition is continued by a mass email containing links to artists’ blogs, websites and internet art, where the work takes up new multifaceted implications and continues to be realized. This act of openness between the artist, the public and the creation process creates a new relationship between the gallery (as the central hub from which art is transmitted) and the public. It also questions the binary relationship between physical and virtual artwork, which in itself is a burgeoning concern of our time.

All the work presented in this show looks forward to the future of art and questions its now antiquated idea of what is modern. The hackneyed and inflexible idea of painting and sculpture being the only hallmarks of art is no longer valid in a world where wars are fought via computer screens (http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-09/ff_estonia ) where presidential debates are held online (http://www.youtube.com/debates ) and where the idea of place and time can be so easily consumed. (http://maps.google.com/maps?tab=wl&hl=en ).This group show is a declaration or independence from these overarching institutionalized ideas and a showcase for truly new contemporary art that is itself at the verge of being canonized and completely assimilated.

Lenny Correa.

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The following are links to the artists’ various Internet sites where some of the work shown at the exhibit can be viewed:

Amanda Barrett: http://www.amandabarrett.net/

http://www.asianeuro.com/

http://rutgers.facebook.com/profile.php?id=8809516&ref=ts

http://www.myspace.com/mandameanders

Reid Bingham: http://whereheremeetsthere.blogspot.com/

http://rutgers.facebook.com/profile.php?id=8803407&ref=ts

Natalie McKeever: http://www.geocities.com/bowtie_is_really_a_camera/

http://rutgers.facebook.com/profile.php?id=8807280&ref=ts

Alexander Conner: http://eden.rutgers.edu/~aconner/

Jacki Sulley: http://blexxings.blogspot.com/

http://art.rutgers.edu/~sullivan/

http://www.myspace.com/jackisulley

Doug O’neil: http://www.dougoneil.com/

Marissa Paternoster: http://forgottengrin.blogspot.com/

http://www.myspace.com/noun

http://www.myspace.com/screamingfemales

Sociotree: http://www.sociotree.com/

http://www.myspace.com/zomziw

Jen Park: http://k-nekt—-ic.blogspot.com/

Jamie Bruno: http://rutgers.facebook.com/profile.php?id=8831606&ref=ts

Elizabeth Lynch: http://courtlandtlanddotcom.blogspot.com/

Tin Kitchen: http://www.myspace.com/tinkitchen

Snake Vision: http://myspace.com/snakevision

Courtlandtlanddotcom: http://courtlandtlanddotcom.blogspot.com/

http://www.myspace.com/courtlandtland

Lenny Correa: http://lnylnylny.blogspot.com/

http://courtlandtlanddotcom.blogspot.com/

http://rutgers.facebook.com/profile.php?id=8823568

Frank Castro: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=136780814

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=6367151