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Tony Lopez

STATEMENT:

What of the world do we make for ourselves? Each experience connected to the last and linked to the next. Personal, private culture updated by the second. Reinventing our past in relation to our now-now-now-now-now and generating the future.
Our new machines give us the opportunity to immerse ourselves in their cultural neutrality, to be in a private space where we can simultaneously observe and create our own aesthetic experience free from implied meaning, purpose or motivation.
By their modification and adaptation, they are synchronised with our many evolutions and in their unorthodox use may facilitate the opening of new paths to our own self-awareness as we perceive and are reflected in their processes.
Adapting computers to randomly generate familiar themes infinitely varied in their subtle, unique differences.
Adapting electronic printing devices to randomly archive fleeting moments that serve as wall-objects recorded for posterity and our great grandchildren's reaction, disposal, reinterpretation, reassimilation perhaps.
Adapting Electro-mechanical devices and redefining their operation, looking at the by-products of their dysfunction.
These devices are my abstraction of all nature and things known/unknown.
We know conceptually that a wave may break, a leaf might fall and a cloud can form but when? Where? How? (But in this case not-why?)
These machines have no god, borders, morality, self or purpose and the rest of it but peculiarly and of primary interest, I have (and in this case-why?).

 

  
        
"wall-object" (540x300mm)  installation
      
All sensations might be/are interpreted using internal concepts arriving at subjective perceptions.
Culture confines our experience of our surroundings. All things exist within the observer.
Any inner reality can be manifested into a sensorial experience via the console, machine and output device.
I wanted to put as much distance between myself and what I created, to be in a new place where I could be the passive viewer and the active creator of the work at one and the same time. The neutral computer/machine was an ideal presentation platform for this and opened the possibility of new avenues of expression. I was surprised at the amount of associative connotation I was aware of whilst standing in front of the machine, as if my mind/body was desperate for connections between fragments of memories that might relate to the temporal experience.
        
Technical process for wall-object:
Five random letters (including SPACE) are generated and displayed as a letter sequence, a word or non-word.


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