Dowd Gallery – Innovations – Pics (Part 2)
Posted by David | Filed under Digital, Installations, Shows
The second piece of artwork that I had in the Innovations exhibition, Mapping the Probability of Archetypical Configurations of Elementary Particles in Thought-Space, did not appear in the Dowd Gallery, but instead was displaying in its proper setting — an institutional building dedicated to science — in Bowers Hall on the campus of SUNY Cortland (a few buildings away from the Dowd Gallery). Again, thanks to Bryan Thomas for making this happen — as I know, firsthand, how difficult it is to get art displayed in a science building. It also seemed that where it was displayed, on the main floor of Bowers Hall, received much foot traffic.
Here is part of the original proposal essay I submitted with my images for this exhibition that explains this poster/installation/intervention:
“Does altering the context (specifically the complete environment) in which we see art transform or strengthen its meaning? Mapping the Probability of Archetypical Configurations of Elementary Particles in Thought-Space, 2009*, is meant to be displayed in a building dedicated to science in an educational institution. This intervention questions the reception and hence, the meaning, of the artwork when it is taken out of the context in which we normally see art. I am questioning the notion of whether the gallery is the ideal space in which to convey meaning.”
