This first version of the series marks the tokenisation of Decimated Skulls, or Vanities. From medical imagery reconstruction of my own skull, a 3d mesh with…
This generative series of digital and analogue sculptures and prints reappraises the genre and aesthetics of the vanity within the digital condition. The Great Decimation transitions from the digitisation of a human skull to its topological decimation by a custom algorithm to its declination in stepped figurations to be finally projected back into the physical world as re-naturalized artefacts, the series journeys into a world of existential self-reflection after the digital.
This first version of the series marks the tokenisation of Decimated Skulls, or Vanities. From medical imagery reconstruction of my own skull, a 3d mesh with accurate topology was generated. The series delineates curated moments when the digital representation and the topology of the skull shift the understanding of the object from one organic figure to another geometric one, challenging the genre of the vanity and reticulating to the contemporary digital condition.
This first version of the series marks the tokenisation of Decimated Skulls, or Vanities. From medical imagery reconstruction of my own skull, a 3d mesh with accurate topology was generated. The series delineates curated moments when the digital representation and the topology of the skull shift the understanding of the object from one organic figure to another geometric one, challenging the genre of the vanity and reticulating to the contemporary digital condition.
General view of the entire series of 7 prints.
Series: The Great Decimation
Version: 0.0.0
Title: Decimated
Year: 2011
Type: Prints
Authors: CompMonks
Dimensions / Format: 60 x 34 cm x 7
Materials: Carbon pigments, piezography on washi paper
Production: CompMonks
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