Artist Research In Terms Of Style, Theory And Aesthetic

Rebecca Fin Simonetti

"Vancouver born visual artist and photographer Rebecca Fin Simonetti does not convey a sense of narrative within her work but instead tries to create an ambiguous psychological state for her viewer, and chooses not to work within the framework of ‘fictional reality.’ As a modern day Surrealist, she often shies away from the banal and boring, describing her own heavily graphic themed work as “schizophrenic.” Fin Simonetti’s photography often leans in the direction of being girl centered, but definitely on the darker side of things."  - FCP Photography blog.

With Simonettis more oil paint based work, theres are definite feel for gestural painting implemented with the delicate strokes. From this picture alone you can see that Simonetti has gone into depth with the central figure whereas the lamp, bedding, and background are largely made from grand sweeps of colour, the tone is set but unimportant and the viewer is drawn into the mysterious white haired woman's  world.  This style of painting encouraged me to look at lapses in detail when painting, to extensive use a certain colour palette that is something other than realistic.  

Jemima Kirke 

MONOLITT

Imagine if the the marble statues of Ancient Rome spurted out paint like a fountain, but the colors reflected the general mood of the empire's populace. MONOLITT, an interactive installation created by Syver Lauritzen and Eirik Haugen Murvol at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, experiments with a similar idea, as a miniature pedestal takes crowdsourced "sentiment analytics" and turns them into physical paint data visualizations.

In a video detailing the project, above, we see users tweet messages like "Annoyed" or "Feeling good," which triggers certain paint colors that then dribble out of the top of a white statue to make a "procedurally generated three-dimensional painting." Though the clip doesn't explain the technology, we'd guess that MONOLITT is equipped with Raspberry Pi and an API that turns the social media data into physical manifestations. 

Though the Oslo-based MONOLITT sculpture trickled out vibrant globs of pink and blue (presumably associated with positive tweets), we wonder what an NYC rendition of the installation would look like. If we had to guess, there'd be so many opinionated, impatient tweets that a Manhattan MONOLITT would look like a messy spray of bleak goop. 

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_uk/blog/emotional-tweets-make-this-sculpture-leak-colorful-paint