Visakh Menon
How does human machine interaction impact perception ? This has been the key area of exploration in my interdisciplinary practice over the last decade. My current series of abstract drawings and paintings focus on the visual language of digital artifacts and the aesthetics of glitch, error and noise. Compositionally these works are inspired by geometric abstraction and color field paintings, with a process transitioning from digital to traditional mediums of drawing & painting and driven by the notion of repetitive mark making as an act of meditation. The algorithmic aesthetics of these works pushes into focus both the functional (generative) and dysfunctional (glitch) nature of code as a tool for expression.
As efficient flow of information has become essential for the exchange of ideas, social interactions and political discourse in our networked society, my signal series of drawings explore concepts of structure and hierarchy as informed by the diagrammatic representation of command and control modules often seen in electronic systems, social networks, botnets, neural circuits, genome maps etc. These works are also influenced by my interest in non-traditional graphic musical scores & representation of sound visually.
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Visakh Menon is an artist from India, currently living in New York. His interdisciplinary practice spans drawing, video, installations & media art. He is an Adjunct Lecturer at New York City College of Technology - CUNY, and works as an Independent Art Director & Graphic Designer.