Robert J. Krawczyk: Sticks/Boxes and Planes

Artist(s):

• Robert J. Krawczyk

Title:

Sticks/Boxes and Planes

Exhibition:

• DAC Online Exhibition 2011: Analogue is the New Digital

Creation Year:

2011

Category:

• 2D and Wall-Hung

Artist Statement:

Sticks/Boxes and Planes: General artistic concerns, themes, or perspectives: “My God is Machinery; and the art of the future will be the expression of the individual artist through powers of the machine – the machine doing all those things that the individual workman cannot do. The creative artist is the man who controls all this and understands it” – Frank Lloyd Wright, circa 1901, from the journal of Charles R. Ashbee.

At the turn of the century, Wright and some of his contemporaries understood the role of technology in their art; I wish to better understand the role of current technology through my own art.

My art explores the potential of using digital media as the conceptual generator and as a production method. I write software that generates images and sculpture. I write software that explores multiple series of a single concept or idea. The software enables me to express and produce any idea I wish. It helps me to better understand the underlying concepts of my work, as well as, produce exceedingly unexpected results. As with conceptual artists such as Sol LeWitt, the concept, in my case expressed in the software, becomes primary; the results are an interesting byproduct.

My overall interest is to investigate methods which can develop images and forms that are in one sense predictable, but have the element to generate the unexpected; the unexpected in a predictable way. The custom software becomes the instruction for producing the work itself. My primary focus is in developing methods and instructions and leaving the production to the computer; laser cutters and 3D printers.