Machine Vision Artist Feature: Michael Borowski
MACHINE VISION
March 3 – April 29, 2023
Candela Gallery is pleased to feature Machine Vision, a survey of tech-based photographic works by Michael Borowski, Kurt Caviezel, Adam Chin, Rashed Haq, Noelle Mason, Drew Nikonowicz, Maija Tammi, and Corinne Vionnet.
MICHAEL BOROWSKI
Through the Swift Black Night 04, 2019. Archival Pigment Print,
18 x 24 inches, Framed. Edition 1 of 10. $800, Framed. INQUIRE >
...Odysseus of many wiles went to the hut and cast about his shoulders a shield richly dight, and followed after them. And they came to Tydeus' son, Diomedes, and him they found outside his hut with his arms; and around him his comrades were sleeping with their shields beneath their heads, but their spears were driven into the ground erect on their spikes, and afar shone the bronze like the lightning of father Zeus.
Through the Swift Black Night 05, 2019. Archival Pigment Print,
18 x 24 inches, Framed. Edition 1 of 10. $800, Framed. INQUIRE >
Michael Borowski’s ghostly, scanned landscapes imagine an Appalachian science fiction and question how emerging technologies will impact the region, visualizing it through computer vision. The title of the series, Through the Swift, Black Night, references the muddled chaos of the nighttime battle chapter in Homer’s The Iliad. The flashes of teeth and metal among an uncertain sea of darkness serve as a metaphor for the way in which autonomous devices “see.”
Through the Swift Black Night 05, 2019. Archival Pigment Print,
18 x 24 inches, Framed. Edition 1 of 10. $800, Framed. INQUIRE >
Through the Swift Black Night 02, 2019. Archival Pigment Print,
18 x 24 inches, Framed. Edition 1 of 10. $800, Framed. INQUIRE >
"The digital images in this series are point clouds generated from 360-degree LIDAR scanning. LIDAR (light detection and imaging) is a remote sensing process that scans the surrounding area by emitting near-infrared lasers, rendering a 3D model through a series of data points. These scanners are most publicly seen spinning on the roof of autonomous vehicles. Instead of recording urban areas, I brought one of these scanners into Appalachian forests. So often, science fiction presents the future of technology in a dystopian urban setting; I am interested in the ways technology impacts rural America, and what a science fiction of the region might look like."
ABOUT MICHAEL
Michael Borowski (he/him) is an artist living and working in occupied Tutelo/Moneton land (Blacksburg, Virginia). He works with an expanded photographic practice to critically engage with architecture, technology, and the environment. Construction and fabrication are recurring metaphors in his work, which inhabits an ambiguous space between truth and fiction. Borowski approaches the built environment as a kind of fiction in order to show that design is not neutral, but reflects political values, personal biases, and desires. His work has been exhibited at the Soho Photo Gallery (NY), Site:Brooklyn (NY), The Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CO), Candela Gallery (VA), the Prairie Center for the Arts (IL), The Czong Institute of Contemporary Art (Korea), and Espace Projet (Montreal, QC). He is a 2019 recipient of a Graham Foundation grant. He received his MFA in Art and Design from the University of Michigan in 2011, and a BFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico in 2003. Michael is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Visual Arts at Virginia Tech
MACHINE VISION
APRIL 6, 2023 | ARTIST PANEL
Join Candela Gallery on the evening of Thursday, April 6th as we welcome featured Machine Vision artists into the space for a panel covering topics regarding the overlaps in technology and photography: surveillance, artificial intelligence, NFTs, and more. Doors open at 6:00pm. Panel discussions and live broadcast begin at 6:30pm.