November 7th- December 13th, 2008.
Projex Mtl Galerie is proud to present an exhibition of works on paper entitiled “Cellular Cultures (T)” by Georg Mühleck. This is Mühleck’s first solo exhibition with Projex Mtl.
"Cellular Cultures (T)" is about communication on a micro level: Cell formations correspond visually, drawing on algorithmic rules. In the process of creation, cell cultures go through hundreds or thousands of generations before they freeze into a large artificial micro still. Rather than simulating real life, this work is a reference to an intelligence of yet unknown origin and scale. Mühleck's recent work builds upon his "engram trackers" and "mind bunker" series where he explored the human brain and its memory function.
During the 1980's Georg Mühleck has shown his work throughout Canada and is back from Europe with his first solo exhibition in Canada in a long time.
“Cellular growth is generated on the basis of mathematical rules (algorithms); self-reproduction and changes in cell state takes place. In December 1992, I experimented for the first time with the simulation of a cellular automaton. Ever since, the 'cells' have occupied a firm place in my brain and an unsettled one in my mind.[1] "Altered attractors", "generating" and "blueprint" zoom into the universe of the brain and mind.
There is no objective path to memory or truth. It all depends on many internal and external influences in the body and its sensory system. The mind can be altered through the 'inner pharmacy' of our bodies. Transmitter substances exist naturally in our nervous system. They are amongst other things responsible for our state of mind. Transmitter action can be triggered from within the body and from outside stimulants. Tea [2] stands here for just one possible means of external alteration of our 'inner pharmacy'. The leaves are performance relics, recycled from the ceremony of brewing tea. Not only am I using the substance of it in my own body, but also the very leaves for the creation of works of art. They are dried and collected until needed for production. Many kilos of these are scanned for shape and function, a pretty meditative style of work. The selected ones often look like characters, perhaps performers expressing something. They are placed to communicate with one another. After they altered my brain's performance, they become 'performers' themselves and this time I am controlling them. Three years ago, Australian scientists have discovered a way to track the electronic footpath of a single thought travelling through the human brain, in real time, using functional MRI [3]. My tea leaves could be neurons with invisible dendrites, axons and synapses - just imagine these and you have a neural network. The work of art becomes a still or a map of an ongoing process of something - perhaps of the microcosm of constructing thought. The leaves suggest patterns of activity for the magic time machine called memory. While you look at the work, your brain gets triggered and your fantasy interacts with the composition. Software is a dead substance. Bringing machine generated forms to something that can be read and understood in terms of real life and emotion means: giving life to an automaton, the Frankenstein of algorithms; zoomed into the Nothingness of bits and formula, still powerful enough to trigger one's fantasy towards the 'real'. Internal and external worlds are interdependent. Georg Mühleck, August 2007
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