STATEMENT: Eric Robert Parnes is a visual artist whose work explores the emergence of science and technology in the world we inhabit. Rather than a blind disciple of modernity, he instead considers the developments of tomorrow for their opportunities as well as their
limitations. His work has iconified structures and machines, and imagines the objective verities of science, technology, and bio-chemistry through the subjective lens of art. With over 10 years of experience, he has completed coursework at New York University and the Pratt Institute. He implements his vision in a broad array of media, including painting, photography,
acrylic sculpture, and multimedia.

STATEMENT: I have a web site which recontextualises digital images that I collected over the year 2001. As these images were collected over the year and dumped onto my hard drive it became obvious
that this mechanical device (the hard drive) was now serving as an adjunct to my memory. The
images are displayed randomly in a 4x4 grid and present an alternate memory through digital
photography. A history of a year in my life through this medium. Fragments recombine in random
ways to create new associations between disparate events and memories. Images often recombine
in surprising ways raising questions about our own abilities to remember and the role the
digitisation of photgraphy plays.

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STATEMENT: coadm? Means Of Destruction: Where A Kid Can Be A Kid(1) Honorary Susan Rice(2) ADVICE COLUMN FOR THE DAMNED(3)

STATEMENT: The overlayed transparent visualizations of these forgotten desktops contain all the obscured lines of my past exploits absolving in the digital fire of generative iterations. The letters DC stand for Document Container as if to suggest the confused package of too much marketing like a bright bottle of detergent. Purple floor is a dream computer; contained.

STATEMENT: With Reckoning I began with a screen capture of the quintessential Microsoft meadow-ground and designed a window that appears out of it as if in reaction to a secret or accidental probe into the heart of the system, which is shown as a baroque graph with various values ranging from solvitur ambulando, a solitary walk in which mental exercises take place, to quartz, a base component of time keeping electronics. It is meant as a painful little valentine from a computer system that witnesses creative work.

STATEMENT: After a while the harddrive becomes a mountain of garbage, useless property to be thrown out. Yes, always underway digitalizing anything my camera fixes all that stuff my harddrives tries to hide before my eyes. Agricola de Cologne is a New Media artist operating from Germany, he is the creator and founder of NewMediaArtProjectNetwork.