42″x30.7″; collage; 2022. Courtesy of the artist.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Nina Fraser: A Study in Psycho-cybernetics
at Marvilla Art District in Lisbon, Portugal
7-31 July 2023
Cybernetics was defined in 1948 by Norbert Wiener as “the science of control and communication, in the animal and the machine”–basically, the theory of messages. As a reaction to an ever rapidly mutating technological world, the work in Nina Fraser’s series explores communication systems, from internal feedback loops within artistic practice and decision making strategies, to external ones. Observing how the printed image acts as one channel of communication, the analogue practice of collage operates as an inquiry into how this system is structured and interpreted, and how it shapes individual thoughts and actions. Presenting the work of art as a complex dynamic system, Fraser demonstrates her artistic strategy through the daily creation of twenty-one collages, laying out the process open to analysis.
(text adapted from material provided by the artist)
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