Machine Based Artistic Production (MBAP)
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Date
2015
Authors
Krajkowski, Alex
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University of Oregon
Abstract
My practice involves surrendering control to a variety of generative processes as a way to
create an image. By exposing gelatin silver paper to obscure chemical processes, or using simple
machines to create photomechanical drawings on large sheets of gelatin silver paper, the work is
actively directed by the process. Visually, this work begins to relate to painting as much as
photography, taking on elements typically associated with high modernist painting. Instead of
paints and brushes, however, I employ a variety of chemical, mechanical, and process based tools
to create the work. While I produce the work, the process creates the aesthetics and form, as with
the series Machine Based Artistic Production (MBAP). The pieces that make up this series are
unique images produced by the dance of several self-propelled machines mounted with lights,
drawing their paths across the page. This process creates an illegible record as it traces an event
that I set in motion; capturing a moment photographically without the mediation of the camera.
Through my practice I investigate the relationship between the exercise of control and the
element of chance in a process that actively and self-consciously embraces both.
Description
19 page thesis statement, portfolio of images
Keywords
Photography, Fine arts, Abstraction