Research Tony Oursler's projection sculpture to identify some of the ideas and methods he uses in his work.
How do you think the Enlightenment concepts of Science, progress, reason, individualism, empiricism, universalism, freedom and secularism can be applied to Oursler's work?
Tony oursler's work is based on installation projects which combine spoken text, performance, moving images and sculptural objects but mostly using video projection on a 2d or 3d surface such as balls, bubble like scupltures and also treetops and clouds of smoke. According to the artists website he has been said to have 'freed the video image from the "box" creating a hybrid of art and cinema'. He has been regarded by many as one of the unique, revolutionary contemporary artists of modern times. In one of his shows of works he focused on the head of the human body where the works were based on the head and the notion of the head as the premeable centre of consciousness. These works relate to the flow of elements such as smoke, thoughts, language, impulses, light, voice, memory, which interact with this central icon of the human head.
Tony oursler's installations are influenced by his interest in our information and media society and its effect. The elements listed previously are expressive of this interest as they use video technology as the central focus to create a strong relationship with humanity through the subject matter (the human head and in particular the eye).
Enlightenment can be described as influencing the current way of thinking. Tony Oursler is very well-known for his video and installation work around the world and he has been making works since 1981. He integrates sound, performance, moving images and scuplture in his videos and projects them onto oddly formed objects as mentioned above.
Tony Oursler's work is very interesting, he used new media and the technology supports his work more attractive. It has many eyes with only one mouth, so it seems more look like a mutant. But every eyes have different emotions. In my opinion, he's work is trying to show us about a person's feeling. for these reasons the work was very impressive.
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