washi – BENJAMIN DE KOSNIK

All the Uhuras

Inkjet, lapis and silvertone wash, bamboo paper, paste. Dimensions for each are H x L (68 cm x 86.5 cm).

2014

Two prints, composed of 288 cropped images of Uhura from the television show Star Trek. Each frame of the first season is analyzed with facial recognition software, and found Uhura faces are either inscribed with tattoo-like circles representing individual facial detection algorithms, or scaled, cropped, and center-aligned via sophisticated image-processing routines. To offset the explicitly computed nature of this work, the images are aligned on broken grids, and floated on an organic background of silvertone metallic or lapis mineral pigments. With Emily York.

Machine is Learning
Equal Weight Uhuras

Asama OG

Variable size. Portfolio of 63 prints using direct gravure, debossing, and aquatint. Kochi gampi chine-collé on Somerset paper. Four stone statue photogravure composition plates, one drift plate, one emboss plate. Each individual print is 510 x 660mm (20 x 26in). With Ianne Kjorli.

2013

Deconstructed zen garden. Variable-size grid of viewer-selected transnational iconography, featuring multiple printing techniques and visual composition strategies from London, Tokyo, and San Francisco.

Asama OG x Nezu Museum x Birgit Skiold
Notes on Asama Stone Ensos
Asama OG Combinatorics
Draft Comments on Asama OG and Eating the Other

The Anniversary Project

A Future Technique

Cali Contrails

Inkjet on Kochi gampi and pulp paper, wood, magnetic metal rods, cuts, magnets.
Dimensions of Future Technique, H x L x W (51″ x 39″ x 4″) (129 x 97 cm).
Dimensions of Cali Contrails, H x L x W (51″ x 39″ x 4″) (129 x 97 cm).

2013

Two installation pieces to honor events that are 2, 10, 50 and 100 years old. Two horizontal pieces, each with accompanying vertical ensigns. Each piece contains at least one unique mark indicating an anniversary year. There are one, two, ten, fifty, or hundred year anniversary year marks to choose from. Some of the pieces contain multiple marks: a joint hundred-and-fifty year anniversary. A combined ten-, fifty-, and hundred-year anniversary. A massed cloud of ten-year anniversaries. A broken grid of two year marks.

The hundred-year anniversary of John Cage’s birth. The fifty-year anniversary of the favorite dojo opening. A ten-year wedding anniversary. Two-year anniversary of Tohoku tsunami, the two-year anniversary of the Syrian uprising. A child’s first birthday.

Being In the (Art) World

Portfolio of three prints. Inkjet, internet, wine, folds. Dimensions H x L (13″ x 19″)

2013

Variable-size works on paper and internet probing artist identity and personality. Self-description using hyper-linked terms from the on-line Art and Architecture Thesaurus from the Getty Research Institute, links to artist web sites, and lists from Wikipedia.

Self Taxonomy
Name Game