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TIME. SPACE. BEING.
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| Hancock
- April 12, 2009 |
| A large gathering
of art
enthusiast gathered at the Kerredge Gallery at
the Copper Country Community Arts Center Thursday evening. The group
came to the reception that was held for artist Yueh-mei Cheng
whose New Media Installation opened on April 7th.
The installation is really excellent, but the work also
speaks to the fantastic talent of the artist. This writer has
come to believe that 1) Yueh-mei can accomplish anything well, very
well, and 2) our community (the western U.P.) is really lucky to have
such an artist living here, and 3) the students at Finlandia
are the most fortunate of all. Yeuh-mei is an Associate Professor of
Studio Arts for the School of Art & Design at Finlandia
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| The press release
describes New
Media art as creative projects that
make use of emerging media technologies such as digital art, computer
graphics, computer animation, virtual art, and interactive art
technologies. Their aim is to explore the cultural, political, and
aesthetic possibilities of these tools. |
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The genre emerged in the 1990s as the Internet and electronic
communication methods began to pervade modern society. New Media
projects are often completed in collaboration with other artists.
Cheng says her multi-media installation places each visitor in a unique
position to play his/her own mind game of 3D visual chess. Derived from
her meditative experiences, "TIME. SPACE. BEING" creates images that
echo the existential reality of meditation.
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| Cheng adds that in
art, time,
space, and beings are interwoven and inseparable. She says that in this
art installation, one's internal vision is represented by pictographic
images and metaphoric symbols. |
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| The letters of the alphabet become
beings that live beyond the ordinary dimensions of perception, invoking
the ancient mystics. The viewer's sense of time and space is influenced
externally by the artist's imagined appearance of form, color, light,
and sound. |
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| As previously stated
the exhibit is a combination of senses . Yeuh-mei has designed three
dimensional lettering and masks. The masks might be described as
bas-relief (pronounced bah-ri-leef) the most subtle piece in this
exhibition is the “talking mask”. This exciting exhibit
must be "experienced" and you can do just that by visiting
the exhibit which will be open through April 30th. |
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| To create the
installation, Cheng is collaborating with artists Aaron Radzwilowicz,
sound design, Jonathan Soper, computer animation, Donica Dravillas,
glass design, and Karl Larson, electrical support. |
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