Infinite Artwork

(set: $one to (a: " visceral"," personal, communal, natural, and historical"," brilliantly colored","n ecstatic and nightmarish"," ritualistically heightened"," virtual reality"," disorienting", "n anxiety-inducing"," simultaneously open, changeable, and tyrannical","n intimate and estranging"," vibrant", " visually pleasing", "n unique", " part landscape, part abstraction"," fantastical", " peculiar and banal"," precious and disturbing", " resonating and contrasting", " disembodied and disguised", "n elegiacal and haunting", " traumatic", " brutal","n erasure-inducing"," repressive"," repressed","n explicit","n elusively sad"," phantasmagoric","n inconspicuous, and emphatically un-heroic", " minimal", "n ornate", "n industrial", " handmade", " comic"," tragic", " progressive"," destructive", "n attractive", " repulsive", " deceptively terse", "restrained", "at once fairy-tale bucolic and fraught with terror", " dark, netlike", " disembodied and disguised"))(set: $two to (a: "abstract","geometric","allegorical","hard-edge", "architectural", "humorous", "assembled", "illusionistic", "autobiographical", "interactive", "biomorphic", "ironic", "urban", "surrealist", "cartoonesque", "kinetic", "trompe l’oeil", "color field", "kitsch", "technological", "conceptual", "landscape", "symbolic", "constructed", "light", "reflective", "surreal", "decorative", "linear", "still-life", "didactic", "literary", "spiritual", "documentary", "lyrical", "sociological", "domestic", "minimal", "shaped-format","environmental", "narrative", "serial", "erotic", "nude", "romantic", "expressionistic", "optical", "representational", "fantastic", "painterly", "religious", "feminist", "political", "psychological", "figurative", "filled with popular imagery", "process-oriented", "gendered", "sexuality-oriented", "primitivistic" ))(set: $three to (a: "intersection of painting, sculpture, and performance","ceremonial stage","set of twenty-six trees","sectional sofa","hallucinatory montage","video of flickering, colorful projections","complex tapestry","stop-motion animation","set of carefully staged photographs", "meditation on the cycle of life and death","voice emitted by speakers","series of words", "machete", "site-specific installation", "infinite visual abyss", "handmade sculpture of furniture and other everyday objects", "penthouse apartment", "elevated platform", "chrome chameleon","box of prisms that reflect viewers’ own eyes back","set of six floor-to-ceiling windows","set of eighteen “stained-glass” panels","metamorphasis", "world in which death and waste are omnipresent", "grid of 2,755 slices of bologna", "calculated absurdity","set of larger-than-life insects", "truncated history painting", "set of stark hand-painted page-spreads","performative sculpture", "precisely outlined areas of flat color", "small collages from cut paper","painting that is experienced both visually and physically","microcosm of tragedy", "landscape painting", "framed view of hallucinatory realms","set of elaborately hand-stitched banners", "poem", "series of film stills","meditation on personal transformation", "set of collected and manipulated images", "collected and manipulated images", "cryptic collage of imagery", "kaleidoscopic grid", "set of sparse shots of traffic, figures, animals, and cityscapes", "dance of moral ambiguity" ))(set: $object to (a: "melting clocks", "individual inhabitants in a living network", "a parklike respite from the tasks of viewing, judgment, and critique", "a seventeenth-century demonological spell book", "appropriated internet footage", "elaborate sculptures and sets", "otherworldly landscapes that reference occult imagery", "The Bering Sea", "silhouetted figures", "biased perceptions of racial personhood in American culture", "remnants of ancient cultures with fragments of the contemporary world", "various orifices emitting light", "body interiors", "subtle spatial and sonic intervention", "the artist himself engaged in an act of unexplained violence", "transcendental beauty", "psychological space", "upended objects and rooms", "river and sky", "mirrors placed on the ceiling and floor", "environments seemingly in conflict", "a middle-class home full of art projects and plants", "drab, cluttered office", "sci-fi narrative of mutual misunderstanding", "children who are part animal or part machine", "elaborately beaded sculptures", "figures draped in heavy costumes", "incendiary writing of punk musicians", "two figures in snorkel gear taking pictures", "juxtaposed luminous, watery veils of paint in bright hues", "bold, graphic shapes as scaffolding for expanses of poured acrylic", "a United Nations scientist who has washed ashore after the world’s last nuclear battle", "desolate scenes of apathy, alienation, and exhaustion", "cartoons, manga, and anime characters", " lush medleys of color, pattern, and texture", "artist’s challenge to herself", "concrete realities", "personal experience", "panoramas of present-day Tokyo and Beirut", "the outskirts of Paris", "prison", "visceral exploration of domesticity", "a radical approach to collaboration and the concept of family", "heavily manipulated imagery", "familiar images", "an American icon of masculinity", "scripted dialogue", "visual and sonic fields", "hyperreal landscapes", "rich textures and multilayered surfaces", "rich textures and multilayered surfaces", "a dark, netlike pattern", "floating, ghostly pairs of eyes", "queer-identified individuals", "a traditional museum gallery", "tapestries and linens", "drawings and collages", "a new multicourse dinner developed in collaboration", "a multi-channel sound and video installation", "a hybrid space", "re-purposed materials", "an unsettling dance of seduction, power, trust, tenderness, loss, and betrayal", "wearable technology", "social gaming", "the American dream","the failed narrative of progress","conflicts that inhere in postmodern urbanism", "uncanny performance of media narrative as childlike theater", "grainy photos of ACT-UP activists being arrested"))(set: $five to (a:"the joie-de-vivre of the marginalized"," the subject-object hierarchy being destabilized", "identity, loss, mortality, and love", "collapsing boundaries between performance, sculpture, architecture, and documentation", "he gap between necessity and desire, practicality and fiction", "acts of estrangement, reversal, ritualized behavior, and fragmentation", " the vanishing point of history", "the unsettling dance of seduction, power, trust, tenderness, loss, and betrayal", "an awareness about how ethnography is embedded in place in a way that the homogenized metropli of the First World never allowed you to perceive", "a preoccupation with haunted spaces, aporia and liminality", "a too-perfect repressed 'paradise", "the mechanism that initiates the firing sequence of a gun", "the soft, flaccid forms of upholstered furniture", "a flayed skin", "racial inequality, power struggles, systemic violence, and religious fervor", "the dangers of dark magic and meditating on human suffering", "self-love, friendship, romance, familial connection, and desire", "traditional family photo albums", "high-tech gloss and interactivity", "an image of aspirational wealth", "political climate rife with social and economic inequality", "bodily anxiety", "surreal or nightmarish characters", "New York’s population of 1,086,000 residents", "an unpredictable and turbulent world", "death as a metaphor for the possibility of spectacular transformation and rebirth", "a state of anxiety and alarm", "our own position or role amid the chaos", "militaristic and capitalistic oppression", "the social and environmental impacts of climate change", "mass migrations of people", "waterfront pleasure palaces", "landscape and the body", "dystopian futures", "colonialist projections onto the rainforest", "imperialist exploitation", "the artist’s sense of disgust and fatigue", "our complicated shared history as citizens", "the urgent need to be heard in a time of struggle", "formal precision and tenderness", "loss and ephemerality", "love, renewal, and life", "the pursuit of creativity", "queer desire", "experimental modes of storytelling", "San Francisco’s architectural and urban markers", "invented spaces", "European structures","American colonization", "a liminal space", "post-Fordism", "the performative dimension of language", "narratives of identity, mortality, loss and love", "wounded defiance", "binary opposition between straight and gay"))(set: $six to (a: "zero","one","two","three"))(set: $seven to (a: "zero","one","two","three"))(set: $eight to (a:"s images of dicks and motorcycle jackets", "s the off-handed use of explicit language, indicative of one's anti-authoritarianism", "s experimental geography", "s post-capitalist consumer politics", "s social gaming", "s the interrogation of the semiotics of the object", "s feminist interrogating self-objectification", "s multiple perspectives, visual languages, and landscapes", "s semifictional characters with real-world knowledge", "s obsessions with popular culture and video technologies", "s race, class, and technology", "s concurrently edited materials", "s improvisation, choreographed gestures, and reenactment", "s expressions of desire and biological instinct", "s a world under the threat of climate change", "s archetypes", "s domestic spaces", "s personal memories", "s Gojira", "s every location in which an email has been opened in the past", "s instruments of communication, drops of blood, and surrogates for the human body", "s private symbols", "s pronouns like I, you, and we", "s the creation of psychological scenes", "s a thick, gluelike substance that lends the surface a feeling of solidity", "s the use of encaustic and one-point perspective", "s the front-page layout design of the New York Times", "s contemporary life, culture, and science", "s synthesized, hybrid organisms", "s architecture", "s images of luxury residential skyscrapers", "s natural disasters or political situations", "s monumental scale", "s meticulous attention", "s tense, enigmatic vignettes", "s illusions with reflective surfaces", "s violence as a rupture or distortion", "s distillation of pure intensity", "s often-invisible labor that goes into the development of buildings and neighborhoods", "s race, class, labor, and wealth", "s the raw materials of America’s bloodiest war", "s memory and possibility", "s layering sounds and images", "s personal possessions","s pageantry", "s ritual"))(set: $nine to (a: "representative of the politics of sickness and health", "a brazen unapologetic description of non hetero-normative sexualities", "rich dark humor", "gesturing toward ambiguous futures, suspended temporality and the destabilization of the reality principle", "sociocultural commentary", "a way to capture this specific moment in American History", "a dialectic between conflicting discourses of urbanism and ecology", "problematizing the traditional relationship between spectator and on-screen fetish object", "describing subjectivity is formed in the wake of post-feminism", "the affective dimension", "the ongoing interplay between physical site and displacement", "subverting the traditional subject/object relationship", "a continually deferred relationship", "itinerant practice", "depicting history of social and racial exclusions", "an immersive event for the senses", "suggesting a ritual action", "unwelcome witnesses", "labor-intensive processes", "suggesting the value of autonomy within mandatory civic participation", "emphasizing primal connections between nature and technology", "highlighting the status of the image in today’s saturated visual environment", "lived histories and symbolic alternatives","suggesting innumerable idiosyncrasies of human relations", "alluding to reproductive proclivities", "alluding to left-wing radicalism", "a signifier of power structures", "represntative of radicalization within the political system", "alluding toward complexity and contingency","depicting frustration, resistance, and mourning", "evidence of police violence", "represantative of the beauty in our own differences", "collapsing the past and present to use allegory as a form of live-action or real-time role-play", "the art of balancing similarity and difference", "symbolizing a breakdown between the natural and artificial", "the individual’s relationship to history, trauma, nationhood, and displacement", "shifting from the familiar to the strange in a way that seems to escape words", "alluding to rising sea levels", "a way to frame and transform reality", "a way to take control of censorship in order to eliminate everything from bland nonsense to mass-produced pop to expressions of fascist ideology", "symbolizing artistic freedom of speech has been “won” at the cost of art’s irrelevance and powerlessness", "public and private, intimate and estranging", "questioning the power of big data", "groundwork for systematic acts of discrimination", "a way to question who can enter and leave the country freely", "turning the mundane into the fantastical", "pointing out discomfort about otherness", "an allegorical figure for today’s political climate", "the struggle to communicate", "denouncing the vast income gap between rich and poor", "suggesting at once the interior and exterior of the human body", "rearing up to tower over the viewer"))(set: $mat1 to (a:"webcam", "The Bering Sea", "strangers", "machete", "antebellum structures", "chanting", "disassembled interior architecture", "upended objects and rooms", "optical retroreflectors", "paper, wood, glue, tape, beads, and acetate sheets", "eBay-sourced figurines", "glitter", "plastic", "toys", "nail polish", "gesso", "Ubuntu Server operating system", "headphones", "archival imagery", "judicial documents", "a voice encoder and stock footage", "appropriated text", "pamphlets, automotive manuals, fast-food–franchise contracts, and blog posts", "a tree trunk", "bloodred crushed bodies of cochineal insects", "a wrought-iron bar", "carnation petals", "adobe bricks", "a rotunda", "the Los Angeles River", "shared food, drink, music, and performance", "underwear", "rollerskates", "Evian bottles, cardboard, rubber caps, plastic wrapping", "pizza boxes", "crystals", "coca cola cans", "mummified fingers", "plaster","metal","iron bars"))(set: $mat2 to (a: "metal bars", "paper", "acrylic paint", "oil paints", "linseed oil", "crayons", "markers", "colored pencils", "oil pastels", "chalk", "watercolors", "tempera paint", "yarn", "felt", "fabric", "silk", "silkworm cocoons", "embroidery floss", "acetate", "toothpicks", "burlap", "aluminum foil", "clay", "red clay", "muslin", "glass beads", "ink", "floral wire", "tree trunks", "tree stumps", "glue", "fabric glue", "fishing line", "wooden beads", "clay beads","canvas", "cardboard", "contact paper","newspaper", "egg cartons", "bubble wrap", "glass", "1-way mirrors", "mirrors", "plastic lids", "bologna", "leaves", "sticks", "rocks", "diatomic earth", "iron-rich dirt", "aprons", "thrift-store jackes", "jars", "metal wire", "glitter", "vantablack pigment", "pigment", "crushed glass", "sand", "ice", "water", "clear gel", "nail polish"))(set: $mat3 to (a:"appropriated images", "a whole human skeleton", "cow skull", "artists's mixing bowls", "artist's mother's quilt", "polaroid photographs from the artists collection", "coffins", "laptops", "floppy disks", "earbuds","apples", "appropriated ads", "television recordings", "iphones", "tables", "table", "lightbulbs", "brass light fixtures", "home-made cookies", "google street view footage", "dead flowers", "plaster fingers", "wooden turned tables", "audio-visual equipment", "basketball hoop from artists garage", "basketballs", "soccer balls", "deck chair", "Marilyn Monroe"))//Untitled,// 2017//(either: ...$mat1), (either: ...$mat2), (either: ...$mat3).//This work is a(either: ...$one), (either: ...$two) (either: ...$three) consisting of (either: ...$object) which is reminiscent of (either: ...$five). The work deploy(either: ...$eight) as (either: ...$nine).[[refresh|testboi]] [[about|About]]

''Isabel Kim'' (b. 1996)//Infinite Artwork Simulator,// 2017-presentHTML, appropriated texts- - -"Recipe: something from popular culture + something from art history + something appropriated + something weird or expressive = useful promotional sound bite. The work is selected for review because it can be written about efficiently. It is not necessary to see the piece." — Mira Schor, "Recipe Art." The Infinite Artwork Simulator is a tongue-in-cheek artwork description generator based on this template. It currently pulls data from Schor's titular essay, Andrea Liu's "Top Ten Words I Am Sick of Seeing on Artists Statements," and descriptions of artwork and artists from the 2017 Whitney Biennial. More text sources will be added in the future.Please contact me at isabeljkim@gmail.com if you have suggestions or find errors in the text.[[Back|testboi]](link: 'About Isabel')[(open-url: "http://isabel.kim/")]- - -Other neat similar projects:(link: 'Random Exhibition Title Generator')[(open-url: "http://www.mit.edu/~ruchill/lazycurator.submit.html")] (link: '500 Letters (An artists statement generator)')[(open-url: "http://500letters.org/")]