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Ken Okiishi
gesture/data (feedback), 2015
Acrylic paint, epoxy, 2-way acrylic mirror and acrylic panel on flatscreen television, feedback .mp4 files (color, silent)
48" flatscreen: 42.3 x 24.4 x 2 in / 107.4 x 61.9 x 5.1 cm
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Ken Okiishi’s work confronts the viewer with the ways we have become accustomed to seeing, via screen-based forms such as the touchscreen and its production of a new form of...
Ken Okiishi’s work confronts the viewer with the ways we have become accustomed to seeing, via screen-based forms such as the touchscreen and its production of a new form of IRL (In Real Life) intensification, as a problematic rather than ‘natural’ way of having experience. By processing and transferring footage across different formats, Okiishi questions the very nature of data and its historical makeup—the image breaks down and is corrupted into its jittering essential elements of color and pixel. On the new works from Okiishi’s 'gesture/data (feedback)' series images of the screen-painting itself is fed back into itself multiple times, generating a dense collision of multiple modes of producing colour (pigment, pixel, light, paint) and image, caught inside the feedback loops that determine our relationships to objects, both ‘behind’ the screen and in real life. Mirrors attached to the surface of the screen will multiply this effect by reflecting what is happening in real time at the fair in contrast with the footage broadcasted from within the screen.