Researchers
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from Anti-Pharmakon
from Photoshop Toolbox
from Torcito Project (sound portraits)
Marcin Ramocki
Biography
Marcin Ramocki was born in 1972 in Krakow, Poland. He received his BA from Dartmouth College and MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. He began working with digital media in 1996 and since exhibited both in gallery environment and online. Currently Marcin lives and works in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and teaches Digital Media at Jersey City University. He is also a founder and curator of vertexList art space in Brooklyn.
Description of Research
The last 5 years of my artistic research was rooted in development of simple video, sound and animation based softwares. I am interested in computer as a source of non-linearity, either generative/random or interactive.
That capacity enables me as an artist to challenge the narrative semiotics and introduce a new, object based one. I am using the word “object” in it’s programming connotation, as a virtual entity requiring certain protocol to express itself and reveal the metaphor contained in the software. I am not using it as an antithesis of “subject”. The environments I create have rules of engagement, but not a story.
My interest is specifically in building metaphors through software.
I consider myself a non-modernist. I no longer feel obliged to delineate the borders of my genre, experiment for the sake of experimentation or escape the authorship of my work. I take the full responsibility for establishing the rules of engagement with my software, the micro-universe with its “objects” and their “rules of conduct”. My earlier pieces (“Virtual Singer”, “Japanatious”, “Desperately Trying to Tell the Time”) are random generators based in video material, which through random-seed application attempt portraying existential conditions. Later pieces (“Tuesday Morning”, “Flux”, “History”) involve user interaction and more complex models illustrating my philosophical investigations.