Future Landscapes
Friday, October 21, 2016 at 2:34PM
To a floating city built on wooden platforms supported by wooden stakes driven into the ground, I took my iPhone art printed on recycled construction wood collected from building sites.
In a city whose architectural style is a fusion of both Byzantine and Islamic forms overlaying a Latin Christian foundation, a group of artists and architects explore the concept of future landscapes. At a time when so many have had to leave their homes and cross borders, this exhibition forms part of the Borders International Art and Architecture Festival, which runs parallel to the Architecture Biennale 2016. As a featured artist, my contribution is an investigation of the architecture of cyberspace.
To visually express the experience of cyberspace using the tools found there, I created the series titled “Corridors of Cyberspace” entirely on my iPhone. Working with various apps, I transformed my photographs of Dubai architecture and international venues into iPhone art.
Each artwork on wood incoporates augmented reality.
I have written before about bridges and bridging cyberspace and so was excited to take my art to a city with over 400 bridges.
In a city made up of many calles and canals, one gets the feeling of being in a labyrinth. Chance encounters, as those that occur in the corridors of cyberspace, are not uncommon.
Venice captured my heart. While there I took many photographs and often posted to Instagram Stories.
I did a live iPhoneart sketch on St Mark's Square.
I went live on Facebook for the first time!
Similar to keeping a journal, I wrote up a Steller story each day I was there, and it is these stories I will now share, to perhaps give others a glimpse of my experience.
Venice, October 2016
(the day of the opening of the exhibition at Palazzo Ca' Zanardi)
(this story was featured by Steller in their Stellerverse collection)
(featuring my #interact2connect artwork)
I am still processing all I experienced during this time in Venice.
Should you happen to visit Venice soon, Future Landscapes will be running until 27 November 2016.