Postcards from the Edge The premise behind Postcards from the Edge is to revisit the lost art of postcards. Postcards played an important and controversial role throughout history, with the first known postcard – a hand painted card by the writer Theodore Hook in 1840. It is thought that Hook’s intent in mailing the card …
sound. of one hand Clapping (2024) explores in part the theories of the post-structuralist philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their work Capitalism and Schizophrenia.
Naccarato is an Interdisciplinary Visual Media Artist, based out of Montreal, QC and Rome, Italy, who creates conceptually driven visceral works incorporating varied media, such as performance, digital print, media art, and site-specific installations. He uses daily life as subject matter to create a critical commentary of technology’s intervention on social, cultural and personal identity.
Images on their own create singular narratives or monologues, but grouped together, the narrative changes, creating dialogues (in pairs), or conversations (3 or more.)
The term is closely associated with the work of mathematician and meteorologist Edward Norton Lorenz. He noted that the butterfly effect is derived from the metaphorical example of the details of a tornado (the exact time of formation, the exact path taken) being influenced by minor perturbations such as a distant butterfly flapping its wings several weeks earlier.
The white.Rabbit Series (aka, Chasing the white.Rabbit through the Ethereum) was inspired by the rise of cryptocurrency and its role in our ever increasing augmented virtual and digital world. I set out to explore this phenomenon through a collection which follows the rabbit’s experience over a one year period.
The Augmented Story unfolds as narrative, revolving around an unnamed protagonist and his movements throughout the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and his chance encounter with the mysterious V.
The Augmented Story was made up of twenty-three (23) interactive and augmented Story Frames, which premiered at the FED GALLERIES (KCAD), Grand Rapids, Michigan between August 29 to October 15, 2017.
The Augmented City was made up of multiple Story Markers – distinctive GPS co-ordinates and landmarks throughout the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Some of these markers were site-specific to a location, consisting of landmarks, architectural structures and designs such as the mural found across from Fed Galleries. Others consist of non-site-specific elements such as street signs and could be triggered anywhere throughout the city.
The project, ‘The Obscure Objects of Desire and the Rise of the Technological Chimera’ looks at how media technologies are remediated. How such technologies manifesting as objects emit a presence which is not singularly transparent but is in a sense haunted.
