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This is Fine
Part of an exhibition in the fall of 2017 at Project Project in Omaha, NE
from the gallery:
Myers will be presenting an array of mixed-format digital works. Constant experimentation and research fuel Myers’s work in breaking images and systems in order to return them to an alternative form of assembly
from J. Fatima Martins' review at Flatlanders
The multimedia installation This is Fine at Project Project created by Alex Myers, Assistant Professor of Interaction Design at Creighton University, is about human consciousness in flux. Specifically, the fusion of technology and biology suggests that another neuroscientific revolution in human self-awareness and existence is happening
Illustrations
These computer-generated illustrations are ways for me to process all of the shit I see around me.
I read a lot - comics, sci-fi, mysteries. My favorites are always the stories that subtly mix the supernatural with the mundane. So those sorts of narrative structures inform my work conceptually. Visually my influences come from a wide array of sources. I love movies. Cronenberg, Carpenter, Lynch. I also love early Netherlandish art. The weird late-Gothic stuff, with its amazing, semi-polygonal cloth, its tight compositional structures and flat, two-dimensional bodies. They also contain a mix of labels in gothic-lettering. Almost a Proto-User-Interface. When I'm working on a new series I often surround myself with books on alchemy, mysticism, and symbolism throughout the ages. I feel it's important to understand these old systems of meaning so that I can mix them with the new systems of meaning. After I've thrown in a bunch of these visual and conceptual inspirations, I usually build one or two small images. Sometimes I'll see something small and random during my day that sends my mind racing. That's when I really start to put the pieces together.
Installations
"I was really interested in the idea of creating this softly moving wall. I also felt placing the panels in a sort of oblique opposition to each other helped create these little pockets of dialogue. The large size helps bring out the small details I like to embed in my works."
"It's not about anxiety so much as it is about discomfort. By placing the work in a place that causes the viewer to adopt an uncomfortable posture, I hope to use their body as a part of the piece."
Included in this installation were selections from my ongoing Human Terrain Systems Project.
iOS Sticker Pack
An iOS sticker pack that was released in conjuction with the exhibition in the fall of 2017 at Project Project in Omaha, NE
Add some surreal weirdness to your conversations
I'm working on a chatbot that should be better able to explain the work. Stay tuned.
