FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 21, 2004
Turbulence Artists' Studios: "{matrix}" by M. Takeo Magruder
http://turbulence.org/studios/takeo

With {matrix} M. Takeo Magruder has created a series of audio/visual
"information" sculptures by extracting and manipulating small data
strings from news media. {matrix} reflects upon society's technological
dependence in this age of media saturation and information overload.

Each work in the series was created from a single news item parsed from
the BBC International web site on January 8, 2004. Three thousand bits
of text, image, and sound were sampled to generate each sculptural form.
Although the original audio/visual entities are unintelligible, it is
possible to reverse engineer the works and extract the 3000 bit elements
in a lossless manner.

BIOGRAPHY

M. Takeo Magruder is an American artist residing in the UK. He received
a bachelors degree in biological science from the University of Virginia
in 1996. Although Takeo has no formal art training, he has "taken the
initiative to both experience vast quantities of original art (from all
periods and cultures) and learn the historical/artistic context of the
work." He has exhibited his videos, installations, sculptures and
net.art at numerous venues worldwide. Upcoming exhibitions include the
Royal Society of British Sculptors, and 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, U.K.;
M.S. Noordereiland Gallery, Rotterdam, Holland; and 17th Stuttgart
Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany. Takeo is the recipient of a 2004
Turbulence commission funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

For more information about Turbulence Artists' Studios, please visit
http://turbulence.org/studios