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About Heather:
Heather Dewey-Hagborg is an information artist who is interested in exploring art as research and public inquiry. Traversing diverse media ranging from algorithms to advertising, her work seeks to question fundamental assumptions underpinning perceptions of human nature, technology and the environment. Examining culture through the lens of information, Heather creates situations embodying concepts, freed from the artist’s hand.
Heather on her work:
I want to be as surprised by my work as anyone else. The joy, for me, in creating is that the creation takes on a life of its own. It is born of my imagination, but the thought which is its inception is only the seed of a generative process.
I am not interested in creating commodities. I am interested in exploring the intersection between art and life, folding one into the other. My work is essentially embedded; its situation defines what it becomes as it both influences, and is influenced by its environment. It is, in this sense, as we are: of generative origin, simultaneously products and producers of place. The work comes to life as a dynamic, time based process. It develops through interdependence, evolving as a complex system in response to its surroundings.
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google, evidently.
Comment by rick-roll — March 20, 2009
the question is a deep spiritual question from my point of view. “Who owns you?” You have to blank your mind to truly KNOW the question. Its easy to say my boss, my job, the gov., my landlord, GOD owns me….but deep down do they? Who controls your mind? who allows you to act upon your own action? What makes you move your muscles? ITs ALL YOU!!!!
Comment by Andrea — March 20, 2009
Who owns me?
As a Christian: God
As a student: My own self
As an American: China (Thank you gub’ment)
As an employee: A couple of strange people
Comment by Anon Y. Mous — March 20, 2009
Excellent question!
Comment by Anonymous — March 20, 2009
that would be my whiney 4 month old, brownie bites, neverending bills and an evergrowing pile of dirty laundry.
Comment by laura — March 20, 2009
this sort of quasi-political art is getting pretty cliche’
Comment by marcus — March 20, 2009
I like it.
Comment by Anonymous — March 20, 2009
I own myself 100%
Comment by Anonymous — March 20, 2009
I had to laugh at the comment “I’m not intersted in creating commodities.” All of the work presented is in some way selling something. It’s more like second class advertising art.
Comment by Shecky — March 20, 2009
who owns me? my job, my landlord, the collection agency.
Comment by anonymous — March 20, 2009