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Spiros Hadjidjanos
“Hybrid Landscape III (Silicon Valley),” 2011. All artworks and photos courtesy Spiros Hadjidjanos.
Carbon fibre mesh becomes a canvas for data
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In his artworks using carbon fibre, the Berlin-based Greek artist Spiros Hadjidjanos employs the tightly-woven mesh material to represent the web of networked information systems within which we live. The warp and weft of the fibres imply the interconnectedness of information and formally refer to the pixelation of the digital image.
For Carbon Fibre Z20:X50 3D, an image of a carbon fibre plate was magnified via digital microscope and then printed on a plate of the same material – the image of a material embedded into its tactile reality. The numbers in the title refer to the lens, Z20, and the degree of magnification, X50. The colors come directly from the microscope and are a precise depth map of the surface of the carbon fibre measured in microns (1000 microns = 1 milimeter) from blue to red.
“Carbon Fibre Z20:X50 3D,” 2003, UV print on carbon fibre plate, 130 x 90 cm.
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For works such as the one pictured here, Network Topologies (Distributed), 2013, Hadjidjanos loaded the image data from one tiny section of a digital graphic onto a microchip. He then printed the image on carbon fibre and embedded the chip into the surface of the print, literally replacing part of the image with its digital counterpart.
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“Dataspace.ocp I,” 2012, UV print on carbon fibre plate, 45 x 65 cm; 17 digital images (85kB) on 17 microchips.
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“Carbon Fibre Z20:X30,” 2012, UV print on carbon fibre plate, 65 x 90.3 cm.
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“Displacement Map III,” 2012, UV print on carbon fibre plate, 65 x 90.3 cm; 18 digital images (72kB) on 18 microchips.
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Spiros Hadjidjanos is an artist living and working in Berlin. He has recieved DAAD and Fulbright scholarships, and has exhibitied work internationally at galleries including Kwadrat Gallery (Berlin), cirne Gallery (Cologne), Transmediale (Berlin), Instituut voor Mediakunst (Amsterdam), Import Projects (Berlin), and Autocenter (Berlin). His solo show Local Manifestations is on view at Future Gallery in Berlin from October 26 through November 30, 2013.
“Network Topologies,” 2013, UV prints on carbon fibre plates, 131 x 91 cm each.
By exploring data in its various physical manifestations, Hadjidjanos pushes the micro and macro levels of materiality to their limits. The carbon fibre surfaces of his works come to embody the texture of our digital lives.
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