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Loculocu is the on going collaboration between London based artist Jolyon James and Melbourne based artist Raphael Ruz. The pair has been working since '96 after founding the creative collective endersan [.com], which acts as a cyber studio for their large-scale digital work. Loculocu explores themes of displacement, identity against a backdrop of accelerating technology and social uncertainty. "Never before has technology been more immediate or more pervasive. Digital technology, specifically the internet, challenges us to actively participate in our information gathering. No longer are we passively absorbing information, but actively discarding it. Television invaded our homes disguised as a friend, the internet confronts us like a jealous lover." Loculocu
paint pictures with photographs. The work has evolved from highly stylised
portraiture to hyper-real abstraction, crafting unexplored digital landscapes
out of hundreds individual photographs. The viewer is thrust into the
camera lucida of loculocu's mind and is simulataneously presented with
an impossible array of perspectives. |