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Infinity On Trial: Michael Heizer And The Post-War American Avant-Garde, George Fleming Sutton
Infinity On Trial: Michael Heizer And The Post-War American Avant-Garde, George Fleming Sutton
Senior Projects Fall 2023
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.
Echoed Sites And The Unknowable Object, Joseph Canizales
Echoed Sites And The Unknowable Object, Joseph Canizales
MFA in Visual Art
This thesis will discuss the expanded field of sculpture, simulacra, digital technology, and two terms I’ve devised: the unknowable object, and echoed sites. Within these two terms, I’m concerned with the complicated relationship between humans and geology and how we extract material from the ground without reflecting on the geologic history of the site. In echoed sites I create sculptures with and without a geologic site or object, by way of digital technology. These forms display two states paradoxically in balance, where what’s presented leaves more questions than answers. Thus, as part of echoed sites, exists the unknowable object. …