https://aaronbjork.com Aaron Whitney Björk Thu, 14 Dec 2023 05:28:59 +0000 https://aaronbjork.com en https://aaronbjork.com/Homepage-left Mon, 19 Dec 2022 05:22:01 +0000 Aaron Whitney Björk https://aaronbjork.com/Homepage-left Aaron Whitney Björk Aaron Whitney Björk is an associate professor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. His research-based art practice serves as a test lab for generating critical ideas that interrogate and provoke visual culture, genealogies of design methodologies, and the cross-cultural implications related to technical artifacts. His work has been exhibited at Gallery 151, New York, Ny; Fisk Gallery, Portland, Or; SOIL Gallery, Seattle, Wa.; Ditch Projects, Springfield, Or.; and has been curated in internet-based exhibitions with Fluidity.Online, ECLIPSECORE, and The Wrong Biennale. He has given lectures or workshops at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Southern Oregon University, and Whittier College, among others. In addition, he has collaborated with many interdisciplinary design studios, working on design projects ranging from feature film and television title sequences, music videos, and other culturally relevant commissions. His graphic design work has been recognized by: The National Academy of Television Arts &amp; Sciences, Communication Arts, Art of the Title, and SXSW. Björk was the 2020–2021 Designer-In-Residence at the Center for Art Research at the University of Oregon. Between 2016 and 2019 he was a curating member at Ditch Projects, helping to organize and host experimental and permissive exhibitions that promoted underserved artists in the Pacific Northwest. From 2006–2009, Björk was a co-founder and co-director of the Los Angeles-based motion design collective BORN. studio@bjorky.com https://aaronbjork.com/A-chair-can-be-hurled Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:04:59 +0000 Aaron Whitney Björk https://aaronbjork.com/A-chair-can-be-hurled A Chair Can Be Hurled 2020–2022Website and videos Created as Designer-In-Residence at the Center for Art Research (CFAR) www.achaircanbehurled.net The online exhibition “A chair can be hurled” uses an apartment as a backdrop for a paramnesiac experience. Nuclear-colored wallpapers illuminate the homepage, housing five films created for this exhibition. The project considers the shifting logic of speed during the pandemic–complicating the signs of speed, reconciling the past’s future, and scrutinizing the materiality of movement—both as an animated form and cultural phenomenon. Launch site︎︎︎ <img width="739" height="415" width_o="739" height_o="415" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0f366ce040b64356a9a2cf0934f42ffda215f10491912e1d5baf1ff40a40e7f/A-Chair-Can-Be-Hurled-Documentation-high.gif" data-mid="162372746" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/739/i/a0f366ce040b64356a9a2cf0934f42ffda215f10491912e1d5baf1ff40a40e7f/A-Chair-Can-Be-Hurled-Documentation-high.gif" /><img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3cdb71e6b0fa57262e53846ad07cc48aeb851d284e62b2958a248ecab07e8acc/AC_01.png" data-mid="143232929" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3cdb71e6b0fa57262e53846ad07cc48aeb851d284e62b2958a248ecab07e8acc/AC_01.png" /><img width="640" height="360" width_o="640" height_o="360" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/301e1b96f7c951938cfc5791fc10954ac7e75ab14ded9a9527a6382f5958a73b/Chair-as-Essence-low.gif" data-mid="143233007" 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(NUMMI) was home to an uncanny collaboration between General Motors and Toyota Motor Corporation for over 26 years. The NUMMI plant produced identical cars for international markets, resulting in a global language of automobiles. In Platform Bazaar, flattened artifacts from the factory were synthesized, translated, and reassembled into a digital workstation highlighting the metamorphosis of the labor force and the subjectification of the digital user. The factory is now home to Tesla's manufacturing headquarters. <img width="7845" height="4987" width_o="7845" height_o="4987" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c2c42257aa179b8e9c9a7a1374c894ecdec807ce9386e5707a5b179ff530605/pb_M_07.jpg" data-mid="52413932" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c2c42257aa179b8e9c9a7a1374c894ecdec807ce9386e5707a5b179ff530605/pb_M_07.jpg" /> <img width="8256" height="5504" width_o="8256" height_o="5504" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4919dfa44d3f4c19b8abbb74795446f507ef60f7c6be8e9591da0fb37fb4819f/pb_M_04.jpg" data-mid="52413929" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4919dfa44d3f4c19b8abbb74795446f507ef60f7c6be8e9591da0fb37fb4819f/pb_M_04.jpg" /><img width="8256" height="5504" width_o="8256" height_o="5504" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8b5a8d7cc32e37e9d5d3553eb3bf94404296d353596f7545e9d6652ba34793a/pb_M_05.jpg" data-mid="52413930" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8b5a8d7cc32e37e9d5d3553eb3bf94404296d353596f7545e9d6652ba34793a/pb_M_05.jpg" /><img width="4299" height="3224" width_o="4299" height_o="3224" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/467e821d574e2988dc174c8d7a614bc5250403479ed948e825af76f8fa1990bf/P5160677_2.jpg" data-mid="42951477" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/467e821d574e2988dc174c8d7a614bc5250403479ed948e825af76f8fa1990bf/P5160677_2.jpg" /><img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e9b08c5080b7f1972b5435e75c26a1af75a8ba897f96125000641904fab24191/PB_T2.png" data-mid="72915250" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e9b08c5080b7f1972b5435e75c26a1af75a8ba897f96125000641904fab24191/PB_T2.png" /><img width="7888" height="5259" width_o="7888" height_o="5259" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/72d7313ead663f682f854d6d092263896265302ae5db5f02e09be4623774e6b7/pb_M_03.jpg" data-mid="52413928" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/72d7313ead663f682f854d6d092263896265302ae5db5f02e09be4623774e6b7/pb_M_03.jpg" /><img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e0dc9ea96bc0e409a02bd79304ff6ca707e892cb924cbc60378b1da2d60d2d0/PB_T.png" data-mid="72914646" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e0dc9ea96bc0e409a02bd79304ff6ca707e892cb924cbc60378b1da2d60d2d0/PB_T.png" /> https://aaronbjork.com/The-End-Stage Thu, 14 Dec 2023 05:28:59 +0000 Aaron Whitney Björk https://aaronbjork.com/The-End-Stage The End Stage 2024Documentary FilmTitle Sequence Sound Recording Welcome on board The Train of Capitalism. The End Stage is a documentary film directed by South Korean director Seungjae Oh. It is a pointed look at the COVID-19 pandemic and capitalism. Oh brings together an international cohort of thinkers to contemplate the connection between COVID-19, capitalism, and climate change. These thinkers include Pulitzer Prize journalist and author Laurie Garrett, American academic and animal behaviorist Temple Grandin, and NASA’s climatologist Gavin Schmidt. Philosopher Slavoj Zizek sets the stage by claiming that first-world societies are riding comfortably on a train while the effects of global warming torment the rest of the world. However, if we do not pull the emergency brake, our train will collide head-on to an oncoming train. Walter Benjamin: "Marx says that revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by the passengers on this train—namely, the human race—to activate the emergency brake."1&nbsp; I collaborated with Oh on several parts of the film, namely the cinematics inside the film that depict hallucinations of climate change generated by AI that invade a safe train cabin, the livery of The Train of Capitalism, the substantial head-on train collision where the high-speed bullet train collides with an iron locomotive, and the typography throughout the film. ________ 1Benjamin, Walter., Eiland,&nbsp;Howard.,&nbsp;Smith,&nbsp;Gary.&nbsp;Selected Writings: 1938-1940.&nbsp;United Kingdom:&nbsp;Belknap Press,&nbsp;1996. pp 402. <img width="2868" height="1564" width_o="2868" height_o="1564" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/036397caab2d5e475444a26c21df890712efd7bd99797aaf12adb4aaad79bc6a/Screenshot-2023-12-14-at-10.14.53-AM.png" data-mid="199447754" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b442ee2375e01a3a7ff494a8c291d5bb6c36a0abc53da4c837b084cbf8a10f3/ENDSTAGE_STILLS_0009_Layer-6.jpg" data-mid="199440902" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b442ee2375e01a3a7ff494a8c291d5bb6c36a0abc53da4c837b084cbf8a10f3/ENDSTAGE_STILLS_0009_Layer-6.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/458f58c32dacb35d74b1cab8617f37f5a4dfa7e2721878076111a3df8ed4f326/ENDSTAGE_STILLS_0011_Layer-4.jpg" data-mid="199440904" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/458f58c32dacb35d74b1cab8617f37f5a4dfa7e2721878076111a3df8ed4f326/ENDSTAGE_STILLS_0011_Layer-4.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d53e5c241b8ec9f3b38882dfa7f1639217b3e41ffbb76370318393c459fb483a/ENDSTAGE_STILLS_0010_Layer-5.jpg" data-mid="199440903" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d53e5c241b8ec9f3b38882dfa7f1639217b3e41ffbb76370318393c459fb483a/ENDSTAGE_STILLS_0010_Layer-5.jpg" /> &nbsp; https://aaronbjork.com/Papers-On-Power Mon, 05 Dec 2022 05:40:45 +0000 Aaron Whitney Björk https://aaronbjork.com/Papers-On-Power Papers on Power Edited by Brian Gillis ISBN: 978-1-7362447-2-2 © 2021 The University of Oregon, Center for Art Research All content copyright the authors and artists Published by the Center for Art Research 5232 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 Designed by Aaron Björk The following text by the&nbsp;Center for Art Research: POWER comes from the Latin word “potere”, meaning “to be able to”, and is often associated with words such as control, influence, ability, potential, force, impact, energy, and might, among others. Power is often thought of as that which is possessed, transferred, acted upon, exchanged, imposed, and has affect. In its most basic form, power can be described as an exchange of energy that has the potential to yield physical, theoretical, or social impact. It has the ability to do something in a particular way, especially as a faculty, quality, or physical manifestation. Power is omnipresent, existing within, outside, and between forces, objects, people, institutions, and social and cultural systems. Power can be tangible or intangible, enduring or temporary, and have no impact on a body or such that shapes its existence completely. As an expansive way to investigate notions of power, the University of Oregon Center for Art Research (CFAR) commissioned artists and cultural producers with a range of lived experiences to respond to the question “What is power?” as it relates to their work and thinking. Contributors were encouraged to make this endeavor something that in some way serves them, or to approach the occasion of developing their piece as a way to process or explore things they may not otherwise. While the project is called Papers on Power, CFAR encouraged contributors to use any format they deem appropriate, from the typical academic paper or photo essay to experimental forms that may have little or no precedent. The initial project prompt posed a 1200 word maximum, which was chosen as more of a starting point than a constraint and that which is not quite long enough to completely resolve most thoughts but affords the opportunity to be speculative or propositional to introduce thinking specific to an individual’s practice(s) while modeling, probing, and/or elucidating the nature of their relationship to the subject of power. CFAR followed the work, adjusting timelines and lending support as needed to let things mature organically within the complexity of the lives that produced them. Papers on Power is a compilation of casts to the ether, sent from home sites all over the US during a time that was fraught and unclear, and so difficult to find purchase in. These pieces were published through CFAR’s website as they were completed in 2020 and 2021, and now bound here to seed thinking and catalyze exchange related to power. Special thanks to contributors Bukola Koiki, Libby Werbel, Nick Tobier, manuel arturo abreu, Nicki Green, Molly Zuckerman Hartung, A. Laurie Palmer, Crystal Z Campbell, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Yaelle S. Amir, Jea Alford, Ariana Jacob, Susan Cuffaro, Sean Cumming, Brian Dolber, Hannah Gioia, Anna Gray, Patricia Vázquez Gómez, Cat Hollis, Anna Neighbor, Larissa Petrucci, Emmett Schlenz and Lise Soskolne, Garrick Imatani, Lynn Yarne, and Lu Yim, garima thakur, Sharita Towne. <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bcfab5f6ebe10b83236aeb52bd549cf06b6d8df88e1da5a60c673b8e453c7421/POP_MOCKUP_01_0007_0006.png" data-mid="161008043" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bcfab5f6ebe10b83236aeb52bd549cf06b6d8df88e1da5a60c673b8e453c7421/POP_MOCKUP_01_0007_0006.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9515d003919125f403e83c6373d165a31ffb8b8a45e92d0be2c4f7ce822e843d/POP_MOCKUP_01_0007_0004.png" data-mid="161008037" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9515d003919125f403e83c6373d165a31ffb8b8a45e92d0be2c4f7ce822e843d/POP_MOCKUP_01_0007_0004.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62f8a232a35887fd03e79801e8e9218493b79efb1b6414690a4c534a61a65e16/POP_MOCKUP_01_0007_0011.png" data-mid="161008053" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62f8a232a35887fd03e79801e8e9218493b79efb1b6414690a4c534a61a65e16/POP_MOCKUP_01_0007_0011.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5852b556c161b47983b4d3224746cf29544b5df77e0ceab53f80db5f415b6a40/POP_MOCKUP_01_0007_0014.png" data-mid="161008064" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5852b556c161b47983b4d3224746cf29544b5df77e0ceab53f80db5f415b6a40/POP_MOCKUP_01_0007_0014.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5ef8b200b83a7e081ae87588668ba6df96db19a7062f25394f08f6db296b669/POP_MOCKUP_01_0007_0012.png" data-mid="161008058" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d5ef8b200b83a7e081ae87588668ba6df96db19a7062f25394f08f6db296b669/POP_MOCKUP_01_0007_0012.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62011062ac73f36a0f80936ff0bd4707628d2843940ad13e612f902abd8e6fe8/POP_MOCKUP_01_0007_0010.png" data-mid="161008050" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62011062ac73f36a0f80936ff0bd4707628d2843940ad13e612f902abd8e6fe8/POP_MOCKUP_01_0007_0010.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f63c881d9a89327e12d8f5647b4fc4e081a5e0778a224d1f1635f8320746dfad/POP_MOCKUP_01_0007_0005.png" data-mid="161008038" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f63c881d9a89327e12d8f5647b4fc4e081a5e0778a224d1f1635f8320746dfad/POP_MOCKUP_01_0007_0005.png" /> https://aaronbjork.com/When-we-trip-we-trip-together Sat, 23 Mar 2019 23:13:09 +0000 Aaron Whitney Björk https://aaronbjork.com/When-we-trip-we-trip-together <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5341584ac86cb19306e628dff3cf15770682942e8161670d463c7d0702299f6f/WT_T.png" data-mid="72915740" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5341584ac86cb19306e628dff3cf15770682942e8161670d463c7d0702299f6f/WT_T.png" /> When We Trip, We Trip Together 12 feet x 50 feet digital print on billboard vinyl. Ditch Projects. 2019. <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b845cd3d96074a03d66a80032f25e48d387bba00a9348c80af2ffdd2857a032f/P1010304.jpg" data-mid="38351572" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b845cd3d96074a03d66a80032f25e48d387bba00a9348c80af2ffdd2857a032f/P1010304.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c238c50c874642a0e9bfc16b9aa99bb93a7e8da207f0bf02f696afb7f2973d1/P3200353.jpg" data-mid="38351575" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c238c50c874642a0e9bfc16b9aa99bb93a7e8da207f0bf02f696afb7f2973d1/P3200353.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e2360f42169869f2a896b174f359c29b10af0c73685c9971e1a859e13560c8c/P1010311.jpg" data-mid="38351574" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4e2360f42169869f2a896b174f359c29b10af0c73685c9971e1a859e13560c8c/P1010311.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c5e22138c23adef30541c21f0c4cd9316318a94c83cf3c3b2a8b0e84ed0c193/P1010299.jpg" data-mid="38351571" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c5e22138c23adef30541c21f0c4cd9316318a94c83cf3c3b2a8b0e84ed0c193/P1010299.jpg" /> https://aaronbjork.com/Best-guess-for-this-image-Chevy-bow-tie-exhaust-tips Wed, 25 Jul 2018 23:40:32 +0000 Aaron Whitney Björk https://aaronbjork.com/Best-guess-for-this-image-Chevy-bow-tie-exhaust-tips Best guess for this image: Chevy bow tie exhaust tips 2018Single-channel video Sound UltraChrome pigment printVinyl film An experimental animation tracing a family tree of automobile ownership highlighting the exchange between the USA and Japan over nearly a century of imported car culture, misunderstood folklore, and industrial manufacturing. The project was spurred by the simple notion of successive mutations—copying but not perfectly. This work uses the post-war relationship between Japan and the United States as a starting point to ponder global exchanges of cultural customs, diy digital aesthetics, and global consumer behaviors. Curated by Ryan Huff for Portland‘Pataphysical Gallery. Translation by Kudo Chihiro. <img width="6910" height="4758" width_o="6910" height_o="4758" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/807acc9a9fd3ef41df8947f29e4860f736aa15836912264d7ebde3ffbad69be1/pata_outside_01.jpg" data-mid="27072452" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/807acc9a9fd3ef41df8947f29e4860f736aa15836912264d7ebde3ffbad69be1/pata_outside_01.jpg" /> <img width="2448" height="3264" width_o="2448" height_o="3264" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75b3dd86f1c1d078f5286c88fbecde7c98a4924803d860c73ed26e234c470816/patap_02.jpg" data-mid="27073770" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/75b3dd86f1c1d078f5286c88fbecde7c98a4924803d860c73ed26e234c470816/patap_02.jpg" /> <img width="4801" height="7193" width_o="4801" height_o="7193" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b87ba5cf53c3c234ced32bc4724e046c26e97be3ff08cbb25f01945d0cd924c8/patap_01.jpg" data-mid="27073473" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b87ba5cf53c3c234ced32bc4724e046c26e97be3ff08cbb25f01945d0cd924c8/patap_01.jpg" /> <img width="3876" height="6269" width_o="3876" height_o="6269" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/54bfcbf5b4d7e99f488a769d94ce62e39d16d57cc4a07a68270a6dbbe87073df/DSC_1244.jpg" data-mid="27073544" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/54bfcbf5b4d7e99f488a769d94ce62e39d16d57cc4a07a68270a6dbbe87073df/DSC_1244.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27505afe2243ddbc253532c022369b303d03e89eaf19d08ba845efac164b2c50/patap_03.png" data-mid="27075496" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/27505afe2243ddbc253532c022369b303d03e89eaf19d08ba845efac164b2c50/patap_03.png" /> https://aaronbjork.com/Craft-and-The-Hyperobject Sun, 13 Dec 2020 18:37:18 +0000 Aaron Whitney Björk https://aaronbjork.com/Craft-and-The-Hyperobject Catalytic Conversation: Craft and the Hyperobject 2020 ISBN: 978-1-7362447-0-8 Craft and the Hyperobject documents a Center for Art Research (CFAR) Catalytic Conversation held on January 29th, 2020 with Anthea Black, Garth Clark, Sonja Dahl, Jovencio de la Paz, Brian Gillis, Bean Gilsdorf, Nicki Green, Namita Gupta Wiggers, Anya Kivarkis, Bukola Koiki, Stacy Jo Scott,Shannon Stratton, and Lori Talcott to explore notions of craft through the structure of a hyperobject. CFAR’s Catalytic Conversations serve the creative practices of individuals and groups by giving them an opportunity to engage a small body of thinkers in ways that contribute to a project or line of thinking that is in development. These conversations are recorded, transcribed, and archived as reference materials for those involved. This particular Catalytic Conversation was the first that CFAR conducted with intent to publish. Book design as part of my Designer-In-Residence duties at the Center for Art Research. <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c468b3111ee8d03f771ab9d27869b9e4d8cd415de538b345624d44175620dba4/hyperobjects_mockup_wip_03.png" data-mid="110204474" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c468b3111ee8d03f771ab9d27869b9e4d8cd415de538b345624d44175620dba4/hyperobjects_mockup_wip_03.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6e5ed471da1071f9c06c7970d45bb35a05d1419003286674fca9581af805be7/hyper_totentanz0006.png" data-mid="110204708" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f6e5ed471da1071f9c06c7970d45bb35a05d1419003286674fca9581af805be7/hyper_totentanz0006.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/46ada2809a638789cdec5021998959292420cf9377ac8fb8c6e94b09777d2a1b/hyper_spring_01_0004.png" data-mid="110204568" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/46ada2809a638789cdec5021998959292420cf9377ac8fb8c6e94b09777d2a1b/hyper_spring_01_0004.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/102193699df85e8ff0b35f821c6925d85fd0ec88d8d2e487138026d0f53d1669/corundom0006.png" data-mid="110204561" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/102193699df85e8ff0b35f821c6925d85fd0ec88d8d2e487138026d0f53d1669/corundom0006.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c468b3111ee8d03f771ab9d27869b9e4d8cd415de538b345624d44175620dba4/hyperobjects_mockup_wip_03.png" data-mid="110204474" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c468b3111ee8d03f771ab9d27869b9e4d8cd415de538b345624d44175620dba4/hyperobjects_mockup_wip_03.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ba10c0557ae91e895e993d1328efb4cbb0476a26f5e365191b58e3a7fe1c6c9/IMG_3694.jpg" data-mid="110204683" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3ba10c0557ae91e895e993d1328efb4cbb0476a26f5e365191b58e3a7fe1c6c9/IMG_3694.jpg" /> https://aaronbjork.com/Chrome-Klein-Worms Mon, 23 Dec 2019 20:11:16 +0000 Aaron Whitney Björk https://aaronbjork.com/Chrome-Klein-Worms Chrome Klein Worms (2017)UltraChrome pigment prints, various sizes. In 1971, artist Claude Ponsot drew a series of Klein worms to accompany video artist Paul Louis Ryan’s article Cybernetic Guerilla Warfare. The essay reflected on network theory, cybernetics, and cultural agency—posing mobile video production of the 1970s as a tool for distributing information outside of the dominant broadcast methods of the day. My series of three-dimensional diagrams are musings of feedback loops in the corporatized internet age. <img width="2550" height="3300" width_o="2550" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4573308d16222c16aa621c1e09b5d6e5dd3b99d61c81305f707f180324c82624/aaronbjork_chrome_klein_worm_01.jpg" data-mid="57144539" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4573308d16222c16aa621c1e09b5d6e5dd3b99d61c81305f707f180324c82624/aaronbjork_chrome_klein_worm_01.jpg" /> <img width="2550" height="3300" width_o="2550" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e084f3c077248512d03416012e6b6c3660155a1a5fb155b8bcbe26d052db36d9/aaronbjork_chrome_klein_worm_02.jpg" data-mid="57144540" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e084f3c077248512d03416012e6b6c3660155a1a5fb155b8bcbe26d052db36d9/aaronbjork_chrome_klein_worm_02.jpg" /> <img width="2550" height="3300" width_o="2550" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cfa2036d37b1b577a8229a19eb1a15db7d536d2ecfc8951bead908dcb38cbf0c/aaronbjork_chrome_klein_worm_04.jpg" data-mid="57144542" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cfa2036d37b1b577a8229a19eb1a15db7d536d2ecfc8951bead908dcb38cbf0c/aaronbjork_chrome_klein_worm_04.jpg" /> <img width="2550" height="3300" width_o="2550" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd345272526b492621f49b451d368bcb2552b464488be4858caf1360a9687e79/aaronbjork_chrome_klein_worm_03.jpg" data-mid="57144541" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dd345272526b492621f49b451d368bcb2552b464488be4858caf1360a9687e79/aaronbjork_chrome_klein_worm_03.jpg" />