Petroglyph Electroglyph
Syliboy’s artwork inspired by Mi’Kmaw petroglyphs, actual artifacts, mixed with Lukas Pearse’s exploration of digital video artifacts.
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Une vidéo cartographiant l’art personnel inspiré des artefacts Mi’kmaq et l’art impersonnel
composé d’artefacts vidéo.
Syliboy’s work, inspired by indigenous Mi’Kmaw petroglyphs, a type of actual artifact, are here presented in an evolving relationship with Pearse’ work, which is technologically self-reflexive and inspired by the results of creative misuse of analog and digital video technology, exploring what are known as video artifacts. Hopefully the viewer will be drawn to both consider the Mi’Kmaw imagery in a contemporary technological perspective as well as to consider how the technologically derived abstract images are themselves usually only considered as part of Eurocentric tradition, one whose self-absorption has the potential to negate the wisdom of shared and inherited knowledge. The relationships between the images keep changing over time, which keeps the piece dynamic but also speaks to the idea that the relationships addressed in the collaboration are not fixed but are continually in the process of evolution, reconfiguration, and reconciliation.