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Daniel Kariko
Friday, November 06 - 2:00PM to 2:55PM
Clemson One Building
Daniel Kariko creates artwork using Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and Stereoscopic Microscope, ordinarily used for scientific imaging.
Kariko’s presentation will address multidisciplinary approaches to creating photographic images using scientific equipment, often in dialogue and collaboration with scientists. In addition to sharing his own work resulting from such collaborations, Kariko will present other historical and contemporary artist’s work that addresses similar methodology, and discuss the possibilities of cross-disciplinary work within university environments.
Contemporary artists have an obligation to navigate the possibilities of multi-disciplinary art making. Photography presents a perfect visual language, and can exist as a nexus of visual information for various fields of research. As a simple documentation method it offers scientists a record, yet it is easily extended into a visual metaphor, therefore serving researchers, as well as artists.
Daniel Kariko’s composite images investigate the relationships between suburban landscape and it’s inhabitants- both human and insect. Insects represent almost 85% of all known animal species. Taxonomists name and describe about 2000 species of insects annually. By collecting common insects during his daily routines and creating their formal portraits under electron microscope, Kariko establishes a relationship between suburbanites and their often unseen and ignored neighbors and surroundings.
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