Field of Vision : Beijing

Live event: 1-16 September 2006

Beijing New Art Projects, 798 Art District
No.4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang
Beijing 100015
China

www.beijing.field-of-vision.net

If you tried to photograph the internet today it would look like Field of Vision – a visual cacophony, a harsh discordant mixture of incongruous images.

At the gallery, a laptop computer connected to a small colour printer churns out images as postcard sized prints. Hausmeister selects and organizes these focus points and applies them to the background of the field in a dynamic spontaneous process; cropping, crumpling, crushing, painting and obscuring to create a layered tactile surface. This multitude of fragments forms a complex mosaic of overlapping, idiosyncratic perceptions, from the banal to the iconic.

Created on site, the process of building the physical field began with pasting a wallpaper of digitally stitched photographs in strips onto the gallery wall. This continuous background image represents the visual grey noise of the field; the ubiquitous elements of our environment that we rarely pay attention to as we move about the city:

…a journey between Shanghai and Beijing, pavements of New York, or for Field of Vision Extremes, scans of grey crumpled newspaper which give an amazingly three-dimensional effect.

Field of Vision: Extremes

Live event: 9-16 October 2005

Institute for New Media
Schmickstrasse 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

www.extremes.field-of-vision.net

The unique and innovative aspect of the project is the way it builds a bridge between live art and digital formats. It creates an interface between the physical world we inhabit and its mirror image on the internet.

Occupying the physical world for only a short period of time, each field was painstakingly documented section by section, focus point by focus point with high resolution digital photographs, which were carefully mapped and merged to create the final digital artwork. After each exhibition, the physical collage was destroyed, leaving behind no material trace.

The digital artwork on the internet has the facility to zoom in close-up, so the viewer can see both the “big” picture and every exquisite detail accumulated on the surface.

Field of Vision: New York

Live event: 13-18 September 2004

The Lab Gallery
501 Lexington Avenue
New York
NY 10017
USA

www.newyork.field-of-vision.net

Hausmeister emphasises individual perception over a predetermined experience and begs the fundamental questions – where is the work of art, who is the artist, how does it relate to the context in which it is located and how does it relate to you, the viewer?

Hausmeister seeks to challenge the ‘real’ as any simple and secure place.