Overview...

We often presume that those capable of mastering the complexities of emerging technologies, view the world in a manageable binary: discernable 1s and 0s, “yes”es and “no”s, true black and optic white. We assume that these technical savants would trivialize their and our relationships with archaic concepts of material color, shape, and form. Wouldn’t they as well,l be completely disinterested in how those concepts interact with bodies that yearn to be adorned, enhanced and exaggerated?
And what of their craft and corporally focused nemeses immersed in pursuits of blurring the lines between beauty and bawdy…working in mediums neither digital nor organic, but somewhere quite disturbingly in between (like poplin or peau de soie). Wouldn’t these visionaries, dedicated to a unique brand of sculpture insistent on a human form’s engagement, find the fascination with pure concept and visual aesthetic, indulgent? Wouldn’t they see the non-functional (and non commercial) as, creatively too simplistic?
…Leaving us to consider those that embrace just that brand self-purposed creativity: the artists. Dedicated to nurturing their often deliberately complex expressive voices, wouldn’t they scoff at their far more accessible cousins: the techie and the tailor?
What if these three played together, engaging shared passions in varying amounts depending on chosen context, criticism, or conceptual objective?
This triumvirate is responsible for perhaps one of the most dynamic relationships occurring in contemporary creative media: the three-way synergy between fashion, technology and art. It is characterized by explorations of cultural “power” associated with specific material icons and their associated performances. It is complicated by “perverse” inversions of convention that (like so many of our fascinations) we love to hate and hate to love. Most intriguingly, it is stimulated by the break neck “pace” of our cultural metronome that flits back and forth from extreme to extreme, encountering each unique intermediary point at breakneck speeds.