Alice In Wonderland – Painting The Roses Red
Hello, this is your exhibition curator coming to you from concept land.
Last year a friend of mine who also studies classical art and is a CGI artist and instructor was talking about render machines. And it got my mind a-wanderin’.
How do we turn people into a render “machine” and what will happen if we do?
So I proudly bring to you the Wetware Render Machine in which our model, Laura Skokan, will pose over a period of three hours and we drawers – the wetware machine – will make marks, remove marks, and create several drawings of her over the three hour period. The drawings will be a compilation of every individual’s marks, just like a CGI is the compilation of many computers making their marks (albeit via programming, but you get the idea).
At least we hope. At any rate it’s going to be fun, like an exquisite corpse parlor game meets Frankenstein’s monster but for the digital age. With pencils. Oh and ink for Darrell of course.
Now you may find yourself asking what the devil does Alice in Wonderland have to do with a render machine made of people?
I guess you’ll have to come to 2215 W. North Avenue, Chicago, between 7 – 10 p.m. this Friday, October 9, to find out. In the meantime, consider our model Laura to be the white rose…
