... 'patagraphical automatists consortium ...
Fresh for October 2009, Bachelor Machines is proud to present:
Join us for our debut exhibition with Gallery Atsui, 602 E.Hastings, Vancouver BC. Opening October 9, running til November 3, 2009. Exhibition info posted here and here:
Donato Mancini
Christian Bök
Marina Roy
at Gallery ATSUI, 602 E.Hastings
Oct 9-Nov3 2009
curated by Steve Calvert
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Bachelor Machines is an online curatorial project, exhibition space, and collegial fanzine assembled in Vancouver BC and territories imagined elsewhere by host organism and contributing artist Steve Calvert.
Bachelor Machines is a collection, but not a collective. It may yet begin to resemble one if cells cohere and differentiate. Artists presented appear at their invitation and consent, but are otherwise entirely independent and unaffiliated beyond a measure of personal acquaintance with the editor. *
Bachelor Machines' prerogative is to collect, display and promote artists working in or around the vague terrain of 'pataphysical culture: in visual, auditory, textual, social, electronic, and performative domains.
Identifying in the round with a rhizomatic internationalist 'pataphysics, we engage locally in an ongoing intermedia exploration on the extended problems of allegorical versimilitude, specifically where the mythopoesis of knowledge interfuses and confuses with its non-dual antipode in the imaginary, permitting the simulacra to momentarily take control: in feedback systems, generative processes, symbiogenic catalysis in ludic automata, chaoid anomalies, emergence attractors, uncertainty generators, reflexivity, multi-perspectival observation-projection techniques [such as the paranoiac-critical method], and any other conceptual ludologies applicable to re-engineering a concrete poetics toward articulating that peculiar abstract machine which mediates the margin of the unknowable ...
Narrowing the gates again, the editor expresses his preference for progressive strategies in non-figurative abstraction, being especially concerned with problems which emerge at the outward breaking points of language, with special interest in radically minimalist and maximalist articulations of the intermedian multiplicity - collecting speculative statistical diagrams to chart and map the border[blur]lands of our contemporary episteme ...
Bachelor Machines gathers and displays collections of images, texts, audio/video files, and references to existing work hosted elsewhere by artists addressing the sensibilities at interest -- aesthetic explorations of generative systems in principle, invoking a trancendental materialism; Functions; "bird of the eternal mechanism, brain in an intimate relationship with the qualities of machines" [Tzara, 1919]
In an effort to participate in and contribute to a speculative discourse on constructive feedback, conceptual abstraction, and 'pataphysical machines which articulate the anomolous spectra of creative automata. The discussion continues everywhere elsewhere, ambient and quietly simmering, beneath layers of cumulative simulacra. The contemporary generative milieu is being explored not only in speculative visual art, sound, and philosophy, all emphasized here, but also finds practical real-world application in cognitive, computational, social, biological, architectural and engineering sciences. Tell-tale pattern-repetitions iterate themselves everywhere, recognitions rattling in my head like a jubilant apophenia. I've determined then, to explore this idée fixée in the context of my artistic community - reach out, amplify the vibration, and construct some bridges...
EXHIBITIONS
Gallery Atsui - Angels in the Angles - Oct 2009
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- Statement of COLLECTIONS
- Statement of INTENTIONS
- Statement of SPECULATIONS
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Collections have been accumulating since the inaugural launch in spring '08, and are found here. Each of the featured artists' pages contain one or more image galleries. These are the richest fruit of this site - all the best meat is available here. Further collections are being added as they arrive.
Galleries are displayed using the easy-to-use and free-to-download JAlbum with the Bananalbum plugin -- even the regrettable spinning banana has grown on us. Respect to the sharewarers, always.
Topically relevant links and blog entries are also in perpetual development... Update notices will appear in the blog, or you may contact the doyen to be added to a mailing list.
If you don't dig on speculative philosophy, please, skip the texts and go straight for the pictures. You won't miss a thing -- there's far more to see than my wandering tetual explications. We're artists, first and last, so all theory aside, what's most important is the encounter with the work itself -- or rather, in this medium, its infinitely reproducing copy.
Reading/writing... acquired taste or neuro-lexical disorder, once you have contracted the word virus, the textual tapeworm, it must be exercised, nourished, and entertained... you know who you are, and if so, exactly what I'm talking about. Clearly you're reading still, in which case, press onward intrepid traveller...
Text submissions are still drifting in from our multi-modal contributors, penning witty and insightful articulations considerably more lucid than my own. These can be found here. Otherwise, if you'd rather not wade throuh pages of experimental text, it's still okay just to look at the pictures and listen to the noises.
Collections of improvisational recordings by several improvisational electroacoustic projects can be found here. Click the large bold project titles to lead to private pages. The handy Box.net widget should offer to play or download individual tracks. Also available are full album zips downloadable from the smaller links indicated below.
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Please take time to enjoy the collections..
Contact info for each artist featured can be found here.
Email the doyen at bachelormachines dot org to comment or propose submissions.
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Many thanks for the generous participation of artists here and everywhere.
All culture is participatory
Eadem Mutata Resurgo
All my relations
SWC, Vancouver BC
Bachelor Machines inaugurated Feb 29 2008
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STATEMENT OF COLLECTIONS - SWC
STATEMENT OF INTENTIONS - BMO
STATEMENT OF SPECULATIONS - SWC
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* Bachelor Machines claims no exclusive rights to the artists or their material. All materials are presented at the permission of the artist. All conjectural information presented is entirely the critical opinion of this author, and does not propose to accurately represent the intellectual positions or affinities of the artists themselves. Collection, commission, and general inquiries should be directed to the artists individually. All restrictions on rights to reproduction are implied, remaining absolutely in the property of their creators.
Intermission Collaborative Drawing, an affiliated society-project stewarded most actively from 2002-2006, remains an ongoing, tho languishing, interest. The collaborative drawing collections, featuring the participation of scores of talented local artists and non-artists, re-appear here... Though presently unattached, SWC does still carry something of a torch for the Intermission Artists Society - alas, she remains dormant in induced cryo-sleep since 2006...
**"Generative art refers to any art practice where the artist creates a process, such as a set of natural language rules, a computer program, a machine, or other procedural invention, which is then set into motion with some degree of autonomy contributing to or resulting in a completed work of art." -Philip Galanter --- I lend metaphorical latitude to my definition by including drawing practices which emulate or simulate symbiogenesis events, involving aleatory permutational dynamics in the construction of the artwork - where the presence of the artist is a negotiating, rather than determining, factor....
