Interview with GARRETT LYNCH
Interview with GARRETT LYNCH
Initially I studied as a Visual Communicator in art to design, training to design for static media and then non-linear and interactive media. Subsequent to this I worked for a number of years as a designer and programmer, primarily in the web and CD-ROM industry in the late nineties and early part of the millennium, which allowed me focus my artistic work solely in new media and continue my studies to a postgraduate level.
My interest in media, whether it be for art or design, has always been of a visual nature but has evolved over time to be temporal, digital, non-linear, interactive and most importantly networked.
Post dot com boom I made the transition to teaching at universities in England which I continue to the present. My art work centers around ideas of networked art.
> Where you from?
I am Irish, lived in Cork, my home city, until the age of 18 when I moved to England for the first time to pursue my artistic career and research. For the last ten years I have been living in England or France.
> When do you create ?
There is no specific time for me to create. The act of creating, actually manifesting my work in a form for others to see / hear / touch / smell / taste (although I have yet to cover the last two senses here), happens when I have some spare time away from teaching however in many ways creating is not a choice I make and can not be switched on or off. It is as instinctual for me as eating or sleeping. In this regard I create continuously even though I may not manifest or document it. Paraphrasing text from Sol LeWitt's Paragraphs on Conceptual Art (1967), In ... art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of my work ... execution is a perfunctory affair.
> who inspires your work ?
Inspiration is key to my work and this was fundamental to my move into teaching allowing me to support my artistic career with research. Personal references come from all areas of, visual arts, sonic arts, literature. A shortlist in no particular order would include:
Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland, James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, George Berkeley's A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Vuk Cosic, Mark Napier, Michael Mandiberg, Stelarc, Orlan, Steve Mann, Art+Com, Paul Johnson, Luc Courchesne, Tony Ousler, Peter Wiebel work at the ZKM, Douglas Coupland's Microserfs, Mike Figgis' Timecode, Damien Hirst, Conceptual art - particularily Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt and John Baldessari, Sonic avant garde work - The Hafler Trio, Zoviet France, Nurse with Wound and Dead Voices on Air, Lev Manovichs new media writing, Henry Dreyfus' Symbol Sourcebook, Edward Tufte work on information visualisation, Joseph Weizenbaum, Theodor H. Nelson's Xanadu, the 1970 Software exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York and the 1997 Mac Classics exhibition at the Postmasters Gallery, New York, the MIT media laboratory aesthetics + computation group, science fiction cinema, reality tv.
Inspiration such as these can come through in my work very apparently, such as in the recent work Grimace and its evident referencing of Tony Ousler's work, or in more obtuse ways, such as the work The irrepairable damage of self-realisation communicated to another and it's reference to the titles of Damien Hirst's works or System for multiple compositions on a theme and its reference to the 1960's work of John Baldessari.
> What is art ?
Art is very much what you make of it and not necessarily what you make for it.
> Have you ever exhibited in Italy ?
The exhibition of my work on the First Independent Free Internet Art Gallery this year has been the first time I have exhibited with an online gallery which considers itself associated with Italy. Since my work primarily concerns networks and as a part of that focuses on the internet as one form of particular networ,k which is all at once the works inspiration, means and site for artistic initiation, creation and discourse, I consider the majority of my work to not have been exhibited in any one country, not be associated with any one nationality (and this includes my own) but instead to be exhibited without recourse to borders, any one institution, culture or belief system.
> How do you image your works in a city_space ?
Cities are where I have lived the majority of my live and urban life is implied in the nature of my work, the necessity of networks of communication, the electricity to run them and the users to navigate them.
> tell me more about your work-
My latest works include:
Live Feed - http://www.asquare.org/project/livefeed/
06:32:00 Recombined - http://www.asquare.org/project/063200_recombined/
full texts can be viewed on their respective sites. Recent work in collaboration with Frederique Santune includes:
Grimace - http://www.asquare.org/project/grimace/
Grimace is a studio based performance employing three digital video cameras networked to a multiple camera security system. The two faces displayed are a reconstruction of artist Garrett Lynch's face. Two camera video his eyes while the third camera videos his mouth. The live feed of each of the eyes are then used eight times with a set of four right eyes on the left of the screen and a set of four left eyes on the right of the screen. Two identical live feeds of the mouth are displayed below each set of eyes. The resulting composition is of two faces bearing a close resemblance yet differing slightly, reacting, grimacing, to some unseen event or in response to each other
> If you have more references please add it
This is my main online reference:
http://www.asquare.org/
this has some of my art work (not all) and is currently under construction for a full website listing works, publications etc.
But there is also:
http://www.bannerart.org/ (a collaborative work)
http://www.netartreview.net/ (not active any more but I was a reviewer for about three years)
http://www.netartreview.net/weeklyFeatures/nocopyright.html (article of interest)
http://www.isea-web.org/inl/inl99.html (a short article on Google and art)
http://rhizome.org/member.rhiz?user_id=1000113 (I no longer support Rhizome in any shape or form since their paid subscription policy was implemented however I have an old profile there with a collaborative art work listed in the Artbase)
Garret also joined gallery2006
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