Write a 300 word critically evaluative piece about a contemporary art work consisting of an object which has the form of a tree but is made from a collection of non-organic matter such as wires, LED lights and strings. The tree is surrounded by very little and seems to point towards discussions of cybernetics and the relationship between the nature of 'wirings' and the nature of 'life' itself.

Result #1

Peter OConnell is a living skeleton of an urban 'E. coli sample found near his mother in his father's garage. He makes one thing after another, which is why he is alive and why he has to live. His mother is dead and he is alive. He keeps her alive because he lives. In doing so he makes a world of difference. He has lived every day of his life since his mother died. This is the real world, a real human world. It is an ideal and true. And it is in this mythic and mythic realm that the reality of the human mind and mind-body is found.

Result #2

Write a 300 word critically evaluative piece about a contemporary art work consisting of an object which has the form of a tree but is made from a collection of non-organic matter such as wires, LED lights and strings. The tree is surrounded by very little and seems to point towards discussions of cybernetics and the relationship between the nature of 'wirings' and the nature of 'life' itself. For this exhibition, Kurtz himself organized a performance that was called Tree Walk, 2005. For one hour he was trapped in an underground tunnel and had to navigate between various complex geometric structures and fallen branches. An LED light was attached to a handle on one branch, and the viewer, having become an insect or fly, was able to walk through the tree and the light effect was intensified. This last section, then, may have been the most complex piece in the show. Most of the pieces were made from castoff materials, such as foamcore or aluminum, and covered with strings and wires. Only the stainless steel, neon and mirrored works were made from natural materials. The most unexpected was Tree in Unconventional Comb, 2005, which was inspired by a 25-year-old piece of wood with a protuberant. In this work, the branches that were trimmed to form a 'vear are clearly visible, but they were not connected to any trees, but to a machine. This led to the most surprising idea in the show, a sculpture by the same name made of scrap wood and wired to the ceiling. This installation was created with various parts and were painted black, with painted strings and wires.The exhibition had two parts. The first was a large gallery. Filled with sculptures, furniture and film props, the gallery was decorated with sequentially numbered plates. The plates show letters and numbers. The colored plates are illustrated by pictorial examples, such as the color film A Flower, 2004, or the metallic films of the 70s. In the back of the gallery hung a black-and-white film of the same title, the film stored in a wooden box in the center of the floor. This piece contains a large sculpture. The wood is natural and uncured, and the rust on the surface is clear. The pieces are arranged on shelves that sit on the floor. The surface is bright and colorful, like a colored-painted raisin.

Result #3

Write a 300 word critically evaluative piece about a contemporary art work consisting of an object which has the form of a tree but is made from a collection of non-organic matter such as wires, LED lights and strings. The tree is surrounded by very little and seems to point towards discussions of cybernetics and the relationship between the nature of 'wirings' and the nature of 'life' itself. Besser suggests that, for this work, the tree itself is an integral part of the piece and that his art as a whole is grounded in this relationship. A thousand words to say something is a life has no material, no knowledge of itself as a thing. A life is a certain way of having an experience, the experience of what I see is not a matter of knowing or knowing of what I see. One way of putting it is to say that I do not see.This sort of thinking may seem contradictory to many of the arts more historic or celebrated presenters, especially those of the 60s. But here, Besser has managed to combine a sense of sincere regard for the tradition of art making with a critical attitude, in a fairly simplistic way. The online archive of the Cibachrome works he produced for the artist workshop in the 70s contains more than 1,400 images (almost a third of them from the 60s) of objects made from wire, LED lights, string, LED lights and wire frames, among other materials. The selection has been reworked through rearrangement.Besser is not the first artist to attempt to create a metaphor for the nature of knowledge, since he can be seen as a precursor to what has been done in the past in the art world. The wires in Langston Hughess 1961 photographic series, Water and Air in America, were played by an LED radio and the strings in Konrad Scholzs 1971 photocollage of a handkerchief are painted in some way similar to the wire frames in Elizabeth Taylor's paintings. Besser does not appear to be trying to produce an analogist statement about nature but instead to show us how our understanding of nature is based on information rather than on abstract thinking. Though the materials used in his work are purely natural, they are still subject to that association which is grounded in visual perception.

Result #4

While the piece is excellent in its mental and visual clarity, the piece suffers from the challenge of a self-indulgent vision that is too easily swept up in a pure intellectual veneer.This exhibition consisted of a selection of non-organic sculptures made between 1990 and 1992. Each sculpture was composed of a number of materials which varied considerably, ranging from blue acrylic and graphite to construction resin. The objects tend to look like mulch or old paper, but the paint has been applied so as to be opaque, that all of the objects are embedded in an extruded resin. This effect is done in an obviously visual way, but it is a result of the design process of the sculpture rather than of natural processes. These sculptures are not only models of how we might construct or arrange objects, but are also possibilities of which we can only dream.

Result #5

Write a 300 word critically evaluative piece about a contemporary art work consisting of an object which has the form of a tree but is made from a collection of non-organic matter such as wires, LED lights and strings. The tree is surrounded by very little and seems to point towards discussions of cybernetics and the relationship between the nature of 'wirings' and the nature of 'life' itself. The work is, in its simplicity, a conceptual and aesthetic commentary on the specific symbolic representation of tree-trunks as anthropomorphic and thus as natural-born objects and as parts of their natural environment. The etymology of the name ethyl is a metaphor for a material (wood) material, organic and green. As well as a metaphor for tree-trunks, this material is used as a highly unstable element which, if the wire is a branch, could fall and fall to pieces, and if the string is a branch, could snap. At the very least it is a material which could split into two but could not stay together. In this sense Ethyl has a tendency to fall apart, to fall in on itself. The material has to be broken up into one unit and put back together again. In the process of this process, ethyl, as the spirit tree, is created and nurtured. The ethyl tree is an immortal tree in a world of eternal spiritual growth. In its growth Ethyl gives birth to a single plant, a flowering tree. This tree, a branch in nature, gives birth to the evergreen plant. This tree has a single, transcendent substance which is inexhaustible. Therefore, the tree has its own life force and vitality. This spirit tree is like an enormous tree which is nourished by ethyl. This is the ethyl tree of life. It has life-giving roots. This spirit tree grows and develops until it can do nothing more than grow and grow again. This process, like a flower, can grow up to hundreds of branches and the plant can only grow one at a time. The ethyl tree thus becomes a living organism with endless possibilities of growth. Thus the tree grows like a gigantic tree which is always growing and growing. The spirit tree is a living organism which is in continual growing, growing upward. It is a regenerative organism which grows in the same way that life does.