DIS_PLACE
Dis_place is a net-artwork that deforms an image of a place by injecting data from various economic, geographic, and personal sources; generating new compositions of sounds and visuals. The artwork problematises singular and static definitions of place by visualizing place as processual and contested. This artwork highlights the tension between the seeming clarity of meaning embedded in data and the inherent complexity and unpredictability of the phenomena it helps produce. In other words, data as much as place can only be indeterminate because things don’t have fixed, definite properties on their own; everything exists as part of a network.
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Mark Cypher is an artist who lives and works in Perth, Western Australia and has been featured in over 30 international exhibitions. He serves as the Chair of Graphic Design at Murdoch University, whose research revolves around posthuman art and design practice. His artwork is also part of several prestigious Australian state and national collections.
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