#hypermaterialism

Frame border is a Hypermaterialistic sculpture. The artist Jan Robert Leegt received a classical training in architecture and art and employs what he calls Hypermaterial: a conceptual semantic material based on hypertext, which uses the web’s user interface vernacular to describe volume and space.

The artist crafts the website through using hypertext rather than marble or wood. The minimal sculptural form has a sense of physicality, being placed within the confines of the browser window and dividing two spaces. The viewer is able to navigate the spaces, interacting with the border to observe it form the left of right.

Frame Border on Temporarystedelijk

This internet based artwork presents earth as a volumeless surface. The artist has taken 3d technology used in mapping through services such as Google Earth and removed its mass using an algorithm that projects its textures against its surface, in search for what the artist calls the Universal Texture; a hypermaterialistic matter that unifies volume and cartography.

The artist archivist looks for empirical processes in which anomalies occur; these anomalies are not errors, but the logical conclusion of these processes. The Universal Texture isn't a mistake–though its aesthetics are reminescent of Glitch–it is an empirical method of calculating volume, much like mathematical perspective.

Interview with Art21

Nicolas Sassoon’s Pandora series documents the space he lives and works in for this digital commission from Opening Times. Through the humble animated gif, and its inherent aesthetics, the artists plays with the notion of space and psychogeography in this ongoing series of works exploring the juxtaposition of the physical and the non-places which the Web offers.

Studio Visit, the second of the series, presents the interior of the room, carefully composed in a constructivist manner, through pixel art in the form of animated gifts. The interior shows a series of shapes and surfaces, ranging from classical antiquity (a vessel can be found on the floor) to post-modern flairs (post-its appear on the wall). The artist breaks the notions of and perspective by consciously avoiding shading, or placing objects inside flat surfaces. The bright colour palette is limited to the objects which inhabit the house, and the whole scene is set floating in an ethereal inexistent space.

Nicolas Sassoon’s Pandora series documents the space he lives and works in for this digital commission from Opening Times. Through the humble animated gif, and its inherent aesthetics, the artists plays with the notion of space and psychogeography in this ongoing series of works exploring the juxtaposition of the physical and the non-places which the Web offers.

Suiskies, the first series of artworks created for this commission, presents 3d models of the outside of the house, penetrated by voids which reveal the space’s true contents: An ethereal material blue and shifting with no depth, denying volume. This material is characteristic of the artists explorations with moving patterns. The house is transposed to another dimension, in which the traditional notions of space are not applicable.

(Image from the artist's website)