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Levi Goldman
DANM candidate Levi Goldman is a visual artist working with sculpture that illustrates his concepts. Goldman focuses on issues of space, particularly as it relates to objects of consumption and their effects on the mind and body. Goldman received a B.A. from UCSC in Visual Art, and has worked as an artist gallery assistant and as an research assistant. In addition, Goldman has curated art shows both on and off campus, with one exhibition receiving grant funds from the UCIRA. Goldman also participated in Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice, a festival designed to break the boundaries of conventional arts practice. There, he collaborated with the Ant Farm and Film and Digital Media to create an inflatable gallery and projection space.
Specifically, Goldman is interested in ideas surrounding the body, the extension of the body, and both literal and metaphorical interpretations of the prosthetic. Goldman uses the prosthetic trope to interpret identity formation, with regard to commodity culture, architecture, and objects of desire. Goldman's work relates to the way individuals have incorporated the built environment into their mind and bodies, and points to the way objects ultimately end up controlling and shaping the body.
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The Prosthetic Trope and Objects of Desire.
This paper positions my artworks within current dialogues concerning literal and metaphorical uses of prosthesis.
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This project utilizes food objects as interactive elements for a viewer. As the objects are handled, the image on the screen shifts. When interacting with this piece, one is fundamentally cognizant of changes made in the environment due to their actions.
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The cube project is a collaboration with fellow artist and electrical engineer Jason Markham Ryan. The cubes track where they exist in relation to each other, and their individual orientation. Sound and light are the variable qualities available for the viewer. The project points to notions of personal space and, through the banality of cube, the fetish of the object itself.
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Drop or Ode To Martha Rosler is a short video which points to the violence existing within a set ideology. The female nude sculpture, cast as a quintessential object of desire, faces multiple traumas as it/she smashes into the ground repeatedly.
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http://levigoldman.com (coming soon)
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