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Website: http://www.sandracrispart.com

College / University: Wimbeledon School of Art, London

Program: Master of Arts Printmaking

Graduation: 31 July 1995

Member type: Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?: Digital, Printmaking

I am...: London based artist and art and design lecturer. Currently teaching, making work and doing a residency in a local college.

About my artwork: Complex large format digital prints use appropriated visuals from eclectic sources, digital camera stills from the TV, media and Internet, scanned objects…..
I also work in media such as; drawing, mixed media, etching, online animation and experimental video from time to time.
Artists working with digital technology in experimental and innovative ways form the main inspiration behind my work; Internet art, video, multimedia installation. Too many to mention here... Low tech is also at the center of my practice, using everyday software such as Photoshop and Illustrator to create digitally generated pieces that deal with the media, climate and information overload. I tend to avoid filters and slick techniques preferring instead to layer and draw over often long periods of time until the work emerges. Most of the images here are large format so that embedded detail, erasures, text or drawing is only revealed on that scale. Images on this page entitled '5ways..' are based on an online video and TV documentary ' 5 Ways to save the world'. Where scientists propose eccentric solutions to global warming such as releasing millions of glass 'sunshades' into space to protect the earth. Or floating strange vessels 'Cloudmakers' across the oceans to create a layer of protective clouds in the lower atmosphere. The narrative evoked by these themes is deconstructed, recycled then re assembled.
'The ‘Bigger Picture' theme appropriates visuals from a website in china selling everything imaginable: Thinking about the source of stuff we buy everyday and take for granted.
Other themes embedded in the work: Stream of consciousness, chance, complexity science, satellite surveillance.

Artists I like: Robert Rauschenberg, Sigmar Ploke, Kurt Schwitters, DADA, Charles Csuri, Robert Smtihson, Bill Viola, Ben Fry, Thomson and Craighead, Tomoko Takahashi, Leonardo's sketchbooks.Too many more to mention...

Interests: meeting friends, exhibitions

What exhibitions are good at the moment?: Juan Munoz. Tate Modern

The centre of the artworld is: nowhere and everywhere

p style="text-align: center;">Large Format digital prints, size 115 cm x 115 cm depending on image

The Bigger Picture Picture [online]

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'Filmstrip2 [5 ways to save the world]'

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5ways to save... [cluster]

Blue Terrain

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'Discovering pancake ice'

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Installation view 'Filament' with Sandra Crisp, Andrew Carnie, James Faure walker & Andrea Jesperson. London Print Studio, Sept 2006

Previous work

'Infoscan 4'

'All that is solid....'

'Global Happenings [excel23]'

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At 5:10pm on 8th August 2008, Jane Webb said…: Thanks Sandra
I really like your work, very different. got a website ?
There looks like one there but cant see it clearly of space ships. I may be curating something else next year that , it may really work in, so keep in touch.
Jane

At 5:01am on 24th July 2008, Anna Jaros said…: Hello Sandra
Thank you for your kind comment. I like very much your work, it looks very interesting.

At 6:41pm on 22nd July 2008, Robert Tombs said…: Sandra,

Thanks. I'm sure I would like your work at full scale too. There's much detail that doesn't translate here.

Robert

At 4:25pm on 17th April 2008, Jon Coffelt said…: Nice and cerebral work. Makes me happy and seems organically informing. NICE!

At 4:12pm on 17th April 2008, Paul matosic said…: now had a chance to look in depth, would love to see these as really large images, or even in detail, lots of depth and a resonance with maps and stuff.
good work

At 3:55pm on 9th April 2008, Pall Thayer said…: I think that for any programming language the primary hurdle is to understand the requisite mind-set. You can basically say the same of any artistic media. You have to learn to reconfigure things into the language of your medium and once that happens things just sort of flow. If you are interested in learning Processing better you should have a go at some of the exercises in the online documentation at http://www.processing.org Many are quite easy to follow. Your applet contains interesting visual effects but I agree that it would benefit from real-time appropriation from the internet. Where and/or how you appropriate data can add interesting conceptual levels to the work.

At 2:52pm on 9th April 2008, Mona Moon said…: thank u very much sandra.u are welcome kiss mona

At 2:47pm on 9th April 2008, Pall Thayer said…: Hi Sandra, thanks for the comment. Yes, On Everything appropriates photos from flickr.com and text from blogger.com. Processing is a good environment to work in. I used to work in pure Java but I find I can usually do the same things quicker in Processing and if I can't I can always throw plain Java code into the Processing code. I found your work interesting too. I have to admit that I immediately noticed a similarity between yours and mine.

cheers.