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| Michael Harold |
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Born January 15, 1952 in Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.
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| 关于此艺术家 |
Four postmodern prologues: 1) Two thought police are sitting side by side observing a suspect. One says to the other, What do you think he’s thinking? The other one replies, What do you think I think he’s thinking? 2) All empires, without exception, have been built on slavery. That is not at question. The real question, especially in a democracy, is, where can you find a lot of volunteer slaves? 3) Everything of real importance has already been said by someone who had no idea what they were talking about. 4) Call me Ishmael. . . . (Reed).
From the beginning, my primary intellectual preoccupation has been with language in all its forms -- as image, as word, as sound, as idea, as thing-in-itself. It is a great mystery in my life, but not the greatest mystery. It is the fourth greatest mystery.
The greatest mystery in my life is the relationship of love to gravity. The second greatest mystery is the fact that I exist at all. I have never gotten over it. I am still boggled by it. Following that is the belief that there is order in the universe, something infinitely greater than the sum of any and all parts, something capable of originating infinities of infinities of universes, the whole thing blinking and popping in the darkness like some illimitable expanse of paparazzi. I personally use the word “god” to describe it, which brings me to language. What does it mean to name something, to give or have an identity? How is it possible to juggle all the things in the universe with one hand while holding the ineffable, indivisible unity of being in the other? Language in one hand, Atman in the other, per se, vis-à-vis, as it were. How is it possible to create something with language and place that thing solidly in the world, perhaps even use it to change the world, to create something that wasn’t there and would never have been there if not for language? I knew from the beginning that I wanted to be a creator of language: a poet, a writer, a scientist, a visual artist. So that’s what I did. |
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"MU" in ASCII
1989 computer, wood, clay and grass |
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Detail of gallery installation with wooden hypercube, computer, clay and grass. An excerpt from Meister Eckhart's Fourth Sermon "On Eternal Birth" written in ASCII (a binary coded language) with a cunieform tool on clay. |
"Art" in ASCII
1985 watercolor, crayon, acrylic and ink on paper on panel 100 x 182 cm |
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The word "Art" in 7-bit ASCII. |
"Ad" in ASCII
1994 oil and encaustic on canvas 212 x 212 cm |
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"Ad" in ASCII as 4 nibbles (one nibble equals 4 bits; ex. "A" = 0100 0001, "d" = 0110 0100) |
"Meta-" in ASCII
1985 acrylic on handmade paper on panel 152 x 208 cm |
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Spells the word "Meta-" in 7-bit ASCII. The edges of each panel are black (0) or gold (1). To "read" the painting, you must view it from an angle. |
The Outside
1985 oil, latex and rubber chicken on canvas 61 x 152 cm |
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Title - The Outside or The meaning of a word is its use, Caption - Which Side of a Chicken has the Most Feathers? |
The first 69 prime numbers in
1985 Oil on canvas 51 x 41 cm |
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The first sixty-nine prime numbers in binary. The prime numbers are in color. |
Caution
2006 Metal, foam rubber, wire, felt, glue, paint, cardboard, tape |
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Sculpture installation with Bruce Allen. Photo by Robert Trudeau. |
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| 教育程度与个人自传 |
B.A. in Sociology. MFA graduate studies.
Painting, Sculpture, Installation and Performance Art
Active as a visual artist since 1983. Visual art includes painting, sculpture, installation, performance and video. Work is represented in individual, corporate and university collections.
Principal member of the artists’ collective Artist’s Transit from 1985 to 1988.
Stoner Art Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1985. Director’s gallery.
Stoner Art Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1986. Three person exhibit with Clyde Connell and Marc Rawls.
Group exhibit, Artist’s Transit, 1985.
Group exhibit, Artist’s Transit, 1986.
Solo exhibit, The Next Next Thing, Artist’s Transit, 1986.
Group exhibit, Artist’s Transit, 1987.
Co-founder of the artists’ collective A Visual Sound and Movement Company with Bruce Allen, Kristi Hanna and Alan Dyson.
Invitational exhibit with David Horner, Jerri Slack and Tama Nathan at the Barnwell Center, Red River Revel, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1987.
Juried exhibit, purchase award for “Meta-“ in ASCII, Boots Pharmaceuticals, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1987.
Juried exhibit, purchase award for “Art” in ASCII, Commercial National Bank, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1987.
Listed in Art in America's Guide to Galleries, Museums and Artists from 1987 to 1990.
Principal member of the “Works in Progress” artist collective from 1988 to 1992.
Solo exhibit, At-the-Loft, installation titled “MU” in ASCII, 1989.
Coming Out: Invitational Sculpture Exhibition with Wallace Walker, Richard Dennis, Jim Buonaccorsi and Ellis Nelson, Centenary College, 1990.
Solo exhibit, Magale Library, Centenary College, 1992.
Performance with Geoff Walden and Ashley Harold, East Bank Theatre, Bossier City, Louisiana, 1992.
Co-recipient of a Regional Artist's Project Grant for the art video Dorothy’s Fourth Neon Dream, 1993.
Group exhibit, Artport, Shreveport Regional Airport, 1994.
Videographer for James ‘Son’ Thomas at Centenary College, a project funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1994.
Group exhibit, Icons and Iconoclasts, Turner Art Center, Centenary College, 1994.
Graduate work in the MFA in Visual Arts program at Vermont College, Montpelier, Vermont, 1995-96.
Group exhibit, CNB Corporate Collection, Meadows Museum of Art, Centenary College, 1996.
Group exhibit, minicine, www.swampland.org, Shreveport, 2004.
Group exhibit, coolspace, Shreveport, 2005.
Group exhibit, Artspace, Shreveport, 2005.
Recipient of Shreveport Regional Art Council’s multi-disciplinary artist fellowship for 2005.
Poetry, Poetics and Fiction
Active as a poet and writer since 1975. Work includes poetry, essays, short fiction, novels, artist’s books/experimental literature.
Louisiana College Writers Competition, Honorable Mention, 1975.
Louisiana State University, Spectra literary magazine, First Annual Poetry Competition, First Place, 1975.
Louisiana State University, Spectra literary magazine, First Annual Short Story Competition, First Place, 1975.
Selected Poems, The American Poet, 1985.
Dataland, from Red Moon, (presented as a performance for four voices), Centenary College Amphitheatre, 1991.
Red Moon (artist’s book/experimental literature), A Visual Sound and Movement Company, 1993, 2002. Printed for use in installation, sculpture and visual art projects. Available online at Harvey Bialy’s www.bialystocker.net and at www.azazaza.com.
Animals, (from somewords.com), online: identity theory (www.identitytheory.com), 2003.
Missile, (from somewords.com), online: smokebox (www.smokebox.com), 2003.
The Class of N-Bits (from Red Moon), originally available online at Steve McCaffery’s North American Center for Interdisciplinary Poetics (NACIP). Now available through the NWLA Art Gallery (www.nwlaartgallery.com).
somewords.com (artist’s book/experimental literature), A Visual Sound and Movement Company, 2004. Available online at www.bialystocker.net and at www.azazaza.com.
Art and Technology, (artist’s book/experimental literature), A Visual Sound and Movement Company, 2005. Available online at www.bialystocker.net and at www.azazaza.com.
The Rapture (novel), 2005. Available online at www.bialystocker.net and at www.azazaza.com.
M (a work in progress). Available online at www.azazaza.com.
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