James K-M
Kanada (Canada)
jameskm.wordpress.com
Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Acryl
Stil: Abstrakt
Statement:
Art comes from the primal, carries paradox and gestures beyond itself. This summarizes what I have found after many years of actively looking. I will show examples of paintings I made starting in 1977 while still a student. I recall the sensation of these paintings, in a way, making themselves. This began a conscious relationship with a primal force, seemingly outside myself, that I have honoured ever since. I do not believe that there can be any art that doesn’t come from this relationship. Real art cannot ultimately be about anything else. To summarize differently, art is the convergence of profound metaphysics with profound materialism, that is, the meeting of the primal relationship with the inherent language of our materials. Yes, this is a paradox and one of many that art carries. In the end, I see my paintings as contemporary pictographs and abstract icons of energetic fields, which means that they are about and point to something beyond themselves, to an abstract non-rational language beyond mind.
Vita / Lebenslauf:
James K-M is a painter, curator, interface designer and educator. He has been exhibiting paintings, digital prints and interactive art internationally since 1978. Since 2001 he has curated five exhibitions of digital print and is co-founder of the Digitalis Digital Art Society (2001-2005).
In 1994 he created Restless Machines: Noise and Industrial Culture, a CD-ROM tracing the history of noise and industrial music from the Futurists at the beginning of the 20th century to Skinny Puppy in the 1990′s. With his Interactive Paintings created in Director, he was nominated Digital Artist of the Year in 1997 by Bravo TV. In 2003 he published his DVD-ROM Electric Living in Canada which explores digital media language, through interviews with over 90 digital artists and media theorists, both Canadian and international.
Between 1995 and 2005 James K-M taught courses in creative process, media literacy, Macromedia Director, Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro at the Vancouver Film School, the Centre for Digital Imaging and Sound, and at Langara College.
In 2006, he returned to painting full time.
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