Me O 2 Dp H O S S A Composition in Light and sound created by Chris Jones Reviewed by Alicia Fennell | walked into the theatre and it was transformed. Before the show started | read the words on a small piece of paper, a description of what we were about to experience, and -upon reading it, | realized that we were already in the midst of the concept. The words, like a poem: Morphosis like everything else in this expanding universe, changed many times as it came into being. In particular, this piece evolved according to the ebb and flow of a dialogue between sound and vision. The subject matter itself is decidedly morphed - via mediation. In this process, light became data and will become light again. This transformation of natural stuff into digital representation is unsettling... but curiously so. There is no reason to assume that the evolution of technology is any less organic than our own. After all, what in the world is not nature? Of course, there is a need that goes beyond art and science to witness the development of natural things - to identify the patterns of beauty and ugliness we see in the world. There is this need because, simply by paying attention to something - directing consciousness - we change the probable properties of the thing we regard. We can't help it - we are a part of the process. With this in mind, where do we morph? We constantly create reflections of our potential to which we respond with change. But where should we direct this Dream Engine of our image-making? Morphosis is a venture in the direction of hyper reality, a stretching of various interpretations of real moments, and a layering of those interpretations into a new moment - the rare kind in which many things occur to us at once. It searches for a sense of the interconnectedness of all things. from Jones’ artist's poem Jones’ use of technology in his work is not about the clinch, and it isn’t a critique of technology as an oppressive force, but rather he-sees it as a tool for fluidity within its inter- relationship with art and nature. The work is not about control but the confession of a lack of control, an embrace of patterns within the randomness of uncontrollable forces. Relationships... Morphosis acts as a collage of mediums: digital, still photography, video, sound and human error and reflects the interrelatedness of technology, human beings and nature. It is that moment when you become entranced by the rhythms of music and image that you become a part of the morphosis. The process of change does not come with simply paying attention to something. It comes with the direction of that attention through creative interpretation. The action, the reaction, the interaction. It is hard to deny that we exist in relationship to the world. We are constantly acting and reacting to the things that surround us, and the things that surround us are also acting and reacting to us. Change involves this action/reaction, it is a cycle, a feedback loop. We respond to change, and change is the result. Transformation comes through patterns and relationships, it is a constant event in which we are a beat in the cycle of rhythm. Logic controls... everything else is illogical. It is traditionally “logical” to think that human beings control nature, and control technology. Perhaps through digitally materializing images Jones chances to dissolve these “logical” boundaries which exist between nature, culture and technology. He takes responsibility for their construction and finds within this confusion of boundaries, a pleasure, a fluidity, a strand. Relationships between humans, nature and technology. Jones’ piece seems to address the changes, the transformations and the thread that forms this pattern of metamorpho- sis. The rhythm which we experience is the cycle of a pattern of change existing in our world, and in our universe. a '@] R p H '@] LS | S A Composition in Light and sound created by Chris Jones viewed Bpicie ermal cf iy a Vv : e a z \ ju zl Pall nit | walked into the theatre and it was transformed. Before the show started | read the words on a small piece of paper, a description of what we were about to experience, and upon reading it, | realized that we were already in the midst of the concept. The words, like a poem: Morphosis like everything else in this expanding universe, changed many times as it came into being. In particular, this piece evolved according to the ebb and flow of a dialogue between sound and vision. The subject matter itself is decidedly morphed - via mediation. In this process, light became data and will become light again. This transformation of natural stuff into digital representation is unsettling... but curiously so. There is no reason to. assume that the evolution of technology is any less organic than our own. After all, what in the world is not nature? Of course, there is a need that goes beyond art and science to witness the development of natural things - to identify the patterns of beauty and ugliness we see in thé world. There is this need because, simply by paying attention to something - directing consciousness - we change the probable properties of the thing we regard. We can't help it - we are a part of the process. With this in mind, where do we morph? We constantly create reflections of our potential to which we respond with change. But where should we direct this Dream Engine of our image-making? ‘Morphosis is a venture in the direction of hyper reality, a stretching of various interpretations of real moments, and a layering of those interpretations into a new moment - the rare kind in which many things occur to us at once. It searches for a sense of the interconnectedness of all things. from Jones artist's poem, Jones’ use of technology in his work is not about the clinch, and it isn't a critique of technology as an oppressive force, but rather he'sees it as a tool for fluidity within its inter- relationship with art and nature. The work is not about control but the confession of a lack of control, an embrace of patterns within the randomness of uncontrollable forces. Relationships... Morphosis acts as a collage of mediums: digital, still photography, video, sound and human error and reflects the interrelatedness of technology, human beings and nature. Itis that moment when you become entranced by the rhythms of music and image that you become a part of the morphosis The process of change does not come with simply paying attention to something. It comes with the direction of that attention through creative interpretation. The action, the reaction, the interaction. itis hard to deny that we exist in relationship to the world. We are constantly acting and reacting to the things that surround us, and the things that surround us are also acting and reacting to us. Change involves this action/reaction, itis a cycle, a feedback loop. We respond to change, and change is the result Transformation comes through patterns and relationships, it is a constant event in which we are a beat in the cycle of rhythm, Logic controls... everything else is illogical Itis traditionally “logical” to think that human beings control nature, and control technology. Perhaps through digitally materializing images Jones chances to dissolve these “logical” boundaries which exist between nature, culture and technology. He takes responsibility for their construction and finds within this confusion of boundaries, a pleasure, a fluidity, a strand. Relationships between humans, nature and technology. Jones' piece seems to address the changes, the transformations and the thread that forms this pattern of metamorpho- sis. The rhythm which we experience is the cycle of a pattern of change existing in our world, and in our universe. 25 _@)