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Name Gregory HurcombAbout Gregory Hurcomb (°1977, New York City, United States) creates media artworks, architecture, installation, photos, drawings and sculptures. By contesting the division between the realm of memory and the realm of experience, Hurcomb tries to create works in which the actual event still has to take place or just has ended: moments evocative of atmosphere and suspense that are not part of a narrative thread. The drama unfolds elsewhere while the build-up of tension is frozen to become the memory of an event that will never take place. His media artworks are given improper functions: significations are inversed and form and content merge. Shapes are dissociated from their original meaning, by which the system in which they normally function is exposed. Initially unambiguous meanings are shattered and disseminate endlessly. By putting the viewer on the wrong track, he investigates the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination. His collected, altered and own works are being confronted as aesthetically resilient, thematically interrelated material for memory and projection. The possible seems true and the truth exists, but it has many faces, as Hanna Arendt cites from Franz Kafka. By exploring the concept of landscape in a nostalgic way, he absorbs the tradition of remembrance art into daily practice. This personal follow-up and revival of a past tradition is important as an act of meditation. His works establish a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver. These works focus on concrete questions that determine our existence. The work engages with fragments, ruins, artifacts, edifices, interaction, technology, media, and slipstreams along the interstices of space and time. His interests collide along the intersection of art, architecture, literature, and design. Imagination and creativity are the fluids that provide the energy, stimulus, motion, and inertia that propels him forward into new discoveries, fields, opportunities, and manifestations. He has exhibited nationally and internationally including at the International Center of Photography in New York City and in Sao Paolo, Brazil. He has most recently been appointed a lecturer at California College of Arts where he will be teaching Studio courses, an elective entitled Radical Representation and a course in Visual Digital Media in the Architecture Department. He is currently working on amalgamating sound, light, film, and structures into new mediascapes. He received his Masters in Architecture from The University of Pennsylvania in 2010. He also earned a certificate of General Studies in Photography from the International Center of Photography in New York City in 2000 and a BA from Rutgers University in English Literature in 1999. Gregory Hurcomb has also DJ’ed nationally and internationally, most recently in Berlin, Germany and Sao Paolo, Brazil in 2007, as well as in Alicante, Spain in 2009 and is currently working on production and DJing in San Francisco, California, USA. Parts of this bio were produced synthetically via http://500letters.org/ - an artist text / bio producing artwork project by Jasper Rigole. For more information consult: http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/1475503 and you can flip through his complete print portfolio. And his Architectural thesis book at: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/project-locus-to-raise-the-dead/11772577?showPreview Follow his latest musings and projects at http://hurcomber.com Or find him at his blog: http://hurcomber.tumblr.com/ and twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/hurcomber and facetown: http://www.facebook.com/gregory.hurcomb on vimeo at: http://vimeo.com/gregoryhurcomb/videos or move your mind to a mix of his at: http://www.thesurveillance.org/ BREAKING NEWS: http://www.cca.edu/academics/faculty/ghurcomb EDUCATION: The International Center of Photography: NY. 9/99 – 6/00 Rutgers University: New Brunswick, NJ. 9/97 – 6/99 Boston College: Chesnut Hill, Mass. 9/95 – 5/97 |
Location San Francisco, CA 94114
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