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  052 Black Box Drawings / 2024  

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“Black Box Drawings”
2024
Series of 10 unique works
8.5” x 11” each
Archival pen on 310g Matte Baryta inkjet paper, salvaged inkjet ink

The “Black Box Drawings” are a commentary on human intention and collaboration with a system outside of oneself. Within an engineering or computer science community, the term “black box” refers to a system interfacing with the world via inputs and outputs, but that processes data in a way invisible or opaque to outside observers. The series of drawings are executed blindly — using a mixed-reality headset as a very expensive blindfold. Seeing only a large opaque black box instead of the hand, pen, or paper surface, the only feedback the artist receives comes from a contact microphone placed under the metallic table surface, which greatly amplifies every movement of the pen and hands on the surface. The act of drawing becomes a sonic moment, freed from composition or plan.





















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  053 Study on Reflections (Delayed But Not Forgotten)  
  052 Black Box Drawings  
  051 Create New Formations (Facade version)  
  050 Study on the Metaphysical Status of a Table  
  049 An Infinite Density Over Zero  
  048 Computational Landscape Series  
  047 Seismoglyph (Mitosis version)  
  046 Artbook Trilogy  
  045 Plasmatic FK  
  044 Bonsai-Gan  
  043 The Albers Variations  
  042 A Mess That Encodes  
  041 An Extended Bootleg  
  040 A Scattered Bootleg  
  039 TYWMC at FILE Festival São Paulo  
  038 TYWMC at Mapbox Locate  
  037 An Infinite Distance Between Two Points  
  036 The End of Information  
  035 Patti Smith Italy Tour  
  034 Strata Systems v02_NIJIMI  
  033 Killer Road  
  032 The Year We Make Contact  
  031 Bessarabia Ghost Tapes  
  030 Strata Systems v01_LOCI  
  029 Performance at The Icebox for Shaping a Signal  
  028 A Strong Hand That Nonetheless Gets You Nowhere  
  027 Apple Blossom Time  
  026 Loci_Convergence  
  025 Noisebed  
  024 Loci_Palimpsest  
  023 The Ornithologist Ghosthunter  
  022 Erosion/Evaporation (Scan Reina Sofia)  
  020 Haeinsa_Palimpsest  
  018 High and Low (Sightlines)  
  017 Dis/continuum  
  016 Cathedral Scan  
  015 Suomenlinna Ornithological Society  
  014 Loci_  
  012 Topoextension  
  011 ATS02: Solve  
  007 ATS01: Wisp  
  005 Moby the Mobile Projection Unit  
  004 Avalanche at Broad Street