Design Observer - Designers and Dilettantes
Dmitri Siegel takes a stab at putting the work of Elliott Earls in context. Click on the image below to read the essay and the comments.
"The economic boom in Lower Manhattan in the mid-1990s is critical to this understanding. The downtown theater community of that era played a significant role in Earls’ career. The enduring experimental performance space Here hosted his first performance in 1995 and later he was awarded an Emerging Artist Grant from the Wooster Group. These venues helped Earls shift his work from enhanced CDs to "technologically mediated poetry reading," to the cycles of performance pieces, digital films, sculptural and photographic works he now produces. At that time, the Wooster Group was staging shows that included heavy use of video. They were actively developing an audience for so-called multi-media performances. This brand of technology-infused work was particularly appealing to the creative professionals of Silicon Alley who had a lot riding on the promise of technology and specifically multi-media. In this context Earls’ pursuit of a hybrid of technology and performance makes a great deal of sense."...
- Excerpt from the article. ( Read the full article here... )
