Sticky Little Fingers (Lunch at the Military Entertainment Complex: A Few Moments in the Techno Utopian Cafe)

The Ajna Series Between 1994 and 1998 Michael Rees spent time working and collaborating with engineers in various rapid prototyping companies. Initially the desire was to locate and target companies who would make art using their high dollar technology. To that end, he had to transform himself and the ways he talked about art projects. For the work to be comprehensible to this new audience, he had to demonstrate a high level of knowledge about technical issues. He did this by reading patents, writing technical articles, and sometimes posing problems that hadn’t been anticipated. Slowly other values for these collaborations began to emerge. The resulting moments were highly personal and idiosyncratic. What started as a single artist wandering in the vast array of commercialized science, engineering, and technology, became a series of intimate experiences.

Notes:

• Color in Rapid Prototyping

• Goth Sculpture and the Missile Maker

• Developing Texture, In pursuit of the hand

• Online conference, gibson, hong kong

Michael Rees'
work has been seen most recently in the exhibition, Bitstream, at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and in solo exhibitions at Gorney Bravin + Lee, Universal Concepts Unlimited, and Central Fine Arts galleries in New York.  His work was also included in the 1995 Whitney Biennial, curated by Klaus Kertess.

EMAIL: site@michaelrees.com
URL: www.michaelrees.com

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