On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Jacob Joaquin <jacobjoaquin@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello everyone,

I have a good friend, Michael Orr, that is an artist from Atlanta
Georgia that specializes in mail art; He composes original post cards
and mails them to other artists and friends in his circle.  We've been
talking for years about possibly collaborating on a project, and this
led to the idea of him doing a series of work based on Csound code and
block diagrams. He just posted this to his art blog this morning:

http://cornpone.tumblr.com/#2082661036

I actually have two other Csound inspired works of his in my
possession that I'll need to hunt down a scanner for so I can share
them.

Here is Michael's profile from his art opening in August:

"Just a few years before Michael Ladd Orr was born, Alvin Toffler
introduced the concept of "future shock". The concept, and the book of
the same name, proposed we were entering an age when the future was
arriving "prematurely" - when one could stay in one place and the
culture around him/her would change so rapidly that it would have the
same disorienting effect as simply moving to a foreign culture - when
the rate of technological advancement would increase exponentially
until the average person simply wouldn't be able to keep up. Orr's
work often hints at these notions, whether he intends this or not is
up for discussion. His art studio and tools are completely mobile at
all times so he can create on the spot and in the moment. He may post
a newly created image on the web or drop it in the mail. There is no
time to dictate meaning, only to reinterpret the numerous images and
impressions as they go whizzing by. Consumerist culture's infinite
supply of marketing images collides with arbitrary hand-drawn
patterns. Ordinarily warm and vibrant yellows and oranges become
jarring against nonsensical shapes and random household items. There
is the sense of an artist trying to inject a touch of restraint and
familiarity into a machine that is insatiable and alien. Collage
becomes collision, but all the while a childlike kind of wonder and
playfulness seeks to burst through the surface. Orr, 35, was born and
raised in and around Atlanta, where he continues to live, work, and
ply his craft."

Jake
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