axiom and simulation

source: mdorf

AXIOM & SIMULATION examines the ways in which humans quantify and explore our natural surroundings through the use of artistic, scientific, and digital realism. As a developed global culture, we are constantly transforming physical space and objects into abstract non-physical thought to gain a greater understanding of composition and the inner workings of our surroundings. These transformations often take the form of mathematical or scientific interpretation. As a result of these changes, we can misinterpret or even lose all reference to the source: when the calculated representation is compared to its real counterpart, an arbitrary and disconnected relationship is created in which there is very little or no physical or visual connection resulting in questions of definition. Take for example a three-dimensional rendering of a mountainside. While observing the rendering, it holds a similar form to what we see in nature but has no physical connection to reality– it is merely a file on a computer that has no mass and only holds likeness to a memory. When translating the rendering into binary code, we see just 1’s and 0’s – a file creating the representation from a language composed of only two elements that have no grounding in the natural world. After all of these transformations, a new reality is created – one without an original referent, a copy with no absolute source. When observing these simulations and interpretations of our landscape within a single context or picture plane, ideas of accuracy, futility, and original experience arise.
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source: mdorf

The young artist, Mark Dorf, graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design, Magna Cum Laude, in 2011 with a B.F.A. in Photography and Sculpture. His most recent works examine humanity’s relationship with our fabricated digital realities and the physical landscape in which we reside through the use of both photography and sculpture. With the understanding that all art is based upon comparison and relationships, he re-contextualizes moment and symbol to create new meaning through the surrounding environment. Mark seeks to understand humanity as an observer in his surroundings, using photography as a tool to explore the curious habitation of the world around us.

Mark’s work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions nationally and internationally, this year in two solo exhibitions. The first of these shows, Environmental Occupations, was in conjunction with Kiki Smith and Valerie Hammond’s collaborative exhibition Streaming Spirits in Lacoste, France, and most recently Mark Dorf: Environmental Occupations at Phoenix Gallery in the Chelsea gallery district of New York City.

Mark currently resides in Brooklyn, New York where he creates his images and continues to study contemporary art.
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source: toppli

En la serie “Axiom and Simulation” el fotógrafo Mark Dorf trata de explorar visualmente cómo los humanos utilizan el realismo artístico, científico y digital para explorar y conocer su entorno. Sus fotografías, sutilmente manipuladas, muestran cómo los objetos y espacios naturales pueden ser transformados en simulaciones digitales que si bien recrean las siluetas de los objetos, en realidad no guardan relación con la masa y volumen de estos. Al final ninguna simulación digital se equipara con la experiencia tangible de estar en contacto con la naturaleza para así poder comprenderla.
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source: fubiznet

Avec cette série Axiom & Simulation, le photographe Mark Dorf examine la façon dont l’homme rapproche constamment les éléments de la nature, à la science et à l’art. En modifiant des paysages et grâce à l’ajout d’éléments géométriques, ce dernier nous propose de découvrir un univers surprenant.