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Jen Hamilton
 

"The work makes tangible the questions and the answers regarding, in general, the “world of things” and the "world of space." Art and communication, language and consciousness, science and technology are reoccurring interests. As I step up to the plate and participate in a more grounded way to stabilize a coherent and fluid understanding of “reality”, or one might say "being human", or “having perception”, and, "having a body", I look to synthesize, and express the wonder and horror of the way we are. This is what I do in making art, or at least, it's what I want to do."

"I have, on and off, over the past eight years been inspired by theorist N. Katherine Hayles’ writings. I appreciate the way she talks about language and explains metaphor. For Hayles, even mathematics is a metaphor and when I first read that, it came as a surprise. From Hayles, I have also read that the quality of instability is acceptable, or at least permissible, and for me, this teetering, and ambiguity (as suggested by the word 'instability') is important, or, it is where I feel, for the time being, most comfortable.

Still in development is an on-again/off-again need to handshake between disciplines, which is to say, a need, to bring them together in some kind of way. In the past, my interests have been between art and science. A goal in the art is to churn out an isomorphic hybrid of all the “ringing” and simultaneous greeting and connecting, and develop a third characterization that makes a multifarious view, between disciplines, narratives, and attitudes possible. What I am practicing nowadays however, in the work, is to use intuition more...

Sometimes the investigations make me nauseous, but mostly the art making I do sets my heart a flutter. And this really is the end goal, to set hearts a flutter."