New Work
August 14 to August 29
2009
Closing Reception
Saturday, August 29
7 to 9 pm
Nate Boyce presents new video works exploring tensions between intuitive and systematic approaches to structure. Weaving together rhythmic permutations of analog video synthesis, 3d animation and text, these new works engage cognitive, perceptual and representational thresholds. As a fundamental trait of Boyce’s work, ambiguous visual textures derived from layers of re-mediation between analog and digital materials complicate the representational status of the image.
Boyce references 20th century composers such as Olivier Messiaen and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and experimental filmmakers Peter Kubelka, Kurt Kren, Hollis Frampton and Paul Sharits, all of whom exploited the generative potential of systematized methods to complicate the dramatic and expressionistic modes of their associated mediums. Boyce’s new work deploys similar organizational systems to establish a formal syntax for the vast possibilities of synthetic imagery.
Flowing from an initial organizational principle, which exists in both the macro and micro level structures of the piece, the work gives the appearance of both simplicity and complexity. Amplifying tensions between motion and stasis, depth and flatness, pictorial illusion and material reflexivity, as well as compositional tensions within the frame, Boyce’s work engages the thresholds of comprehensible visual logic.
