Daniel O’Toole - ‘Untitled’

Installation work - Synthetic polymer on timber and semi-transparent perspex. 80cm x 80cm

2020

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Daniel O’Toole

Multimedia Artist / Melbourne, Australia.

Negotiating the cross over between video and painting.

Inspired by the 'Light and space' movement of the 1960s (Los Angeles) the work is positioned in the post-digital context of contemporary Australia. My work embraces the imperfections and low-resolution modes of recording as an aesthetic decision. I make videos of natural phenomena to use as a reference for paintings. These time based works are a conflation of analogue and digital processes.

The video works combined with soundscapes offer a dialogue between sight and sound, to express a personal interpretation of how they can relate to one another. The video component is created with the painting outcome in mind. The result is a kinetic painting intended to be paused at various intervals and consequently mined for imagery.

Paintings are framed behind a semi-transparent screen, to alter perception and re-animate the static image. Questioning the ubiquity of the digital screen, the work emphasises 'seeing' as an active engagement rather than a passive receiving.

www.danielotoole.com.au / @daniel.otoole

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