Artist Statement:

Free Standards is a series of sculptures that explore the cinematic apparatus, while excluding the actual camera itself. Coming from a technical filmmaking background, the technician is offered a bevy of components to help the cinematic apparatus function in a myriad of ways. For these works, I have stripped away the camera itself, and let these pieces act as ghosts, so to speak; there is negative space implied here. I am interested in technology and its use as a representational model. With this work I am attempting to develop a specific iconography that reflects upon the evolution of technology, its dependency in capital institutions , while at the same time pulling it out of context and questioning its main function as a reflection of the authoritative and corporate powers that it is most clearly aligned and supported by. By deconstructing these technologies, and reorganizing specific objects and components, I am questioning the value of the objects, disregarding any protocol (which is at the heart of any system) and exploring the relationship between technology and the world it is meant to serve.           

 About:

Andrew Neumann is an American artist. He works mainly with time based forms, including video, (single/multiple projections and installation), mixed media electronic music performance, as well as static sculptural modes, text panels, and conceptual photography. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004, a Harvestworks New Works Grant, a LEF Foundation Grant and other awards. He has performed his music/multimedia performances at Experimental Intermedia Foundation, Roulette, Issue Project Room, The Rose Art Museum, Artist Space, Microscope Gallery, as well as numerous “black box” basement venues. He has had one person shows at bitforms Gallery, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, The DeCordova Museum, and has been in numerous group shows. He has been awarded residencies at The MacDowell Colony, YADDO, Ucross Foundation, STEIM, Djerassi, and many others. He is currently preparing two CD’s of solo electronic improvised music systems.

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