Madge Gleeson: Golden Parachute
Artist(s):
Title:
- Golden Parachute
Exhibition:
- SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
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More artworks from SIGGRAPH 1997:
Creation Year:
- 1996
Medium:
- laser print/mixed media
Size:
- 23" X 25"
Category:
Artist Statement:
I am extremely interested in the role of new technology in shaping our cultural environment. The computer is both the means and indirectly the content of many of my pieces. If Dick and Jane are still out there, they would be quite shaken by the information society that we are creating. I struggle with the social issues raised by all of this but at the same time am fascinated by the new possibilities. As artists before us have been buffeted by fin de siècle psychology, we are certainly tasting the fin de millennium.
Most of these pieces involve a scanned object that has been enhanced and then greatly enlarged. Despite their hyperreal texture, the black and white fictionalizes them. Most are printed on mylar, which is transparent or frosted and then displayed over wood veneer, formica, aluminum foil, and other materials. Hardware is repurposed from the local scrap metal yard, and the framing material is custom made by a furnace contractor. There is on intended slurring of the real and artificial, of the digital and tactile.
“Golden Parachute” is also about money, power, and the environment.
All Works by the Artist(s) in This Archive:
- Madge Gleeson
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None of Your Business
[SIGGRAPH 1995] -
Thin Slice of Life
[SIGGRAPH 1995] -
Mirror, Mirror
[SIGGRAPH 1997] -
Road Warrior
[SIGGRAPH 1997] -
High Flyer
[SIGGRAPH 1997] -
Golden Parachute
[SIGGRAPH 1997] -
Endangered Species
[SIGGRAPH 1997] -
Artist's Garden
[SIGGRAPH 1997] -
First Things First
[SIGGRAPH 1994] -
Blind Man's Bluff
[SIGGRAPH 1992] -
Frequent Flyer
[SIGGRAPH 1996] -
Endangered Species
[SIGGRAPH 1996] -
Rocking Circle C
[SIGGRAPH 2006] -
Replica
[SIGGRAPH 1998] -
My MeMart
[SIGGRAPH 1999] -
Facing Pages
[SIGGRAPH 1997] -
Illuminated Manuscript
[SIGGRAPH 1997] -
98102
[SIGGRAPH 1997] -
Frequent Flyer II
[SIGGRAPH 1997]