The Geometry of Binary Life

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“We are only particles of change”
Joni Mitchell, Hejira

When we walk into the gallery space of island6 we are struck by the variety of video game characters that many of us have grown up with. Paintings are pixelated as if they were censored. Manga girls try to get out of their frames, inviting us to share the world with them. Digital prints sarcastically mix analogue photography and popular cartoon characters. In these artworks two worlds are mixed: the physical one and a digital one that has been built over the past three decades. Yet, these worlds do not create parallel narratives in our lives, but appear as a single dimension in which the physical and the digital depend on and complete each other. This semi-virtual reality is not composed of unknown elements that scientists and artists have always researched, in an attempt to know what makes life- and what makes art. Instead, it is composed of computable pixels, which irrevocably makes art in the digital era something that derives from measure and construction, rather than abstract analysis. In order to search for new artistic possibilities of digitalism, Liu Dao’s latest exhibition goes deep inside this new digital reality and recreates the fuzzy alternate dimension that we unwillingly but not so reluctantly extend our flesh and blood lives into.

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Digital, binary life...
so strange
how we go around...
analyzing...
reconstructing...
we try to reinvent the world around us.
but the best we can do
is on or off.
it's binary.
everything is either on or off.
on or off...
paintings
images
light... sound...
it's all 1's and 0's
on... and off...
that's it
on... and off...
on or off...
on or off...

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released October 28, 2017
Mychaelangelo Norkus

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island6 六岛 Shanghai, China

island6 art collective places emphasis on innovation and interaction in works made at the studio of island6 Arts Center. Liu Dao's art ranges from visual, to interactive, conceptual, humorous, and somber -- but it is always striking, always involving innovative takes on modern technology, and always the product of collaboration. ... more

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