April 1, 2005
Turbulence Artists' Studios: "Encoded Presence" by Michael Takeo Magruder
http://turbulence.org/studios/takeo
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The mobile phone has become the primary transmitter of our digital
selves. Generating ephemeral networks, it mediates our intimate
exchanges and erodes distinctions between public and private space.
Within this framework, there exists the potential to explore, critique
and expand the conceptual and aesthetic structures of classical
portraiture. Can the physical recording limitations or compression
artefacting of mobile phone technologies become meaningful creative
elements? Does the portrait attain a greater or different 'truthfulness'?

BIOGRAPHY

Michael Takeo Magruder is an American artist based in the UK who works
within the fields of New and Interactive Media. He received his formal
education at the University of Virginia, USA, graduating with a degree
in Biological Sciences. For the past eight years his artistic practice
has reflected upon society's data-driven and information saturated
existence through the examination of international news communications.
By recombining the notions of art and media, it has been his intention
to analyze the interconnections which have been forged between the
individual and the pervasive media network. It is a questioning of
product vs. process, knowledge vs. stimulation, fact vs. perspective.

Magruder's artistic production has been exhibited worldwide and
encompasses an eclectic mix of forms, ranging from futuristic
stained-glass windows, digital lightscreens and modular light-sculptures
to architectural manipulations, ephemeral video projections and
interactive network installations. His current explorations and research
embrace 3D stereoscopic projection, immersive multi-sensory environments
and interactive non-linear narratives for network/gallery settings. His
work in these fields is presently supported by Turbulence.org, 3D
Visualization Group: University of Warwick, and Arts Council England.

For more Turbulence Artists' Studios please visit
http://turbulence.org/studios/index.html

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Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780