data/fields: mark fell
MARK FELL Tone Pattern Transactuality, 2011, computer generated sound and image
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Tone Pattern Transactuality is the newest piece in a series of works by Mark Fell entitled
Attack on Silence. The series uses intense colour and sonic forms that are direct outcomes of the same elementary mathematical process. Fell is influenced by the visual and sonic structures present in both sacred geometries and technological interventions in mind control. Through the early stages of the series, Fell’s central concern was to examine and aestheticize such structures using computational methods. However, as the series developed, Fell’s concerns have shifted away from the sonic and visual forms found in mystical and scientific practices, to explorations of change and attention, and the interplay between psycho-neural and technological process. These later works feature a constant radial form whose boundary blurs into its background with spectral change of varying magnitude and duration. The central ambiguity of the work—the temporal and spatial condition of the object—foregrounds the percipient’s ‘internal’ process. In asserting the impossibility of a ‘passive’ perceptual state the viewer is prompted to consider if the perceived form—its shifting color fields, and transitional status—exist on the screen or retina, or ultimate synthesis.
Tone Pattern Transactuality calls into question the boundary between the self and the world asserted by many Western theoretical traditions. It asks: which data is the viewer responding to, the computational data evident in sound and image, or the data encountered within its perception? Similar distinctions are addressed in Fell’s use of sound. Here a process known as ‘convolution’ is used to map the acoustic fingerprint of real spaces onto synthetic sound. In this piece, the synthetic sound, and therefore listener, is placed within those spaces. In
Tone Pattern Transactuality sensory data can change our situational relationship with a space or field of vision. The single viewer is, in a sense, drowned in visual and aural data. This is the first gallery exhibition of Mark Fell’s installation work in the U.S.
On view in Data/Fields, a new media exhibition in which the
viewer/listener becomes another connection in the flow and transfer of
data. The artworks presented act as hubs of sensory information—sites of
signal, noise, presence, and absence. The exhibition features works by
five noted international artists, Caleb Coppock (U.S.), Mark Fell
(U.K.), Andy Graydon (U.S./Germany), Ryoji Ikeda (Japan), France Jobin
(Canada), and is curated by renowned sound artist Richard Chartier.
About the Artist
British artist
Mark Fell (b. 1966) explores the relationships between
geometry, color, and waveform. His works have been shown around the
world as performances, installations, and in print. For the past decade
Fell has been one of the leading innovators in the fields of
experimental electronic music and sound art. Combining interests in
experimental music, contemporary art, computer technology, and
philosophy, his work has been performed and exhibited internationally to
wide critical acclaim. Fell is one half of electronic music duo SND.
markfell.com