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Project: Snake
12" x 48"
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Artist Statement: The paradigm shifts currently at play in contemporary art, architecture and design are fundamental and
inevitable, displacing many of the well-established conventions. In a digitally-mediated design of the
"digital avant-garde" the practices of the past suddenly appear unsuitable. Models of art and design
capable of consistent, continual and dynamic transformation are replacing the static norms of
conventional processes. The predictable relationships between design and representation are
abandoned in favor of computationally generated complexities.
"Project: Snake" represents an incessant fluid process of mutation, deformation and delirium,
dynamically changing form that is both surface and cavity, and expressing the limitless in relative terms.
The sculptural representations embody an emerging new media aesthetic. The metaphor of the snake
investigates experimental art and contemporary design inquiries, that would explore the possibilities
offered by digital processes akin to surfaces coupled with a variety of conditional experiences such as
skin | structure, enclosure, representation, ornamentation, perception, gender and performance.
As we continue to reduce the space of slippage between the plastic solidity of material and ephemeral
liquidity of light, imagination and matter begin to speak the same language.
The digital sculptures were produced with Alias|Wavefront Maya, and the data were
were processed through SURFCAM, then translated through the CNC milling
process into sculptures using medium-density fiberboard. A large-scale sculpture
was produced in high-density foam and converted into an acrylic mould
through the process of vacuum forming.
Vishal Dar, an architect and new-media artist, conceptualizes, designs, and
builds works that inform and overlap the field of architecture, design, film/
animation, and interactive art.
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