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Alex Beeston

Alex is a UK and Singapore-based Artist.

Alex's practice explores the effect of time and determinism through science, technology and belief systems that arise from civilisation.

Degree Details

School of Arts & HumanitiesPrint (MA)RCA2023 at Truman Brewery

Truman Brewery, F Block, Ground, first and second floors

Steel plate etching with relief.

Operations of simultaneous images, nodes and points in time, communicate together, trying to shift technological explanations away from linear models of thinking, into landscapes of belief and electronic reproduction, resubstituting our lives into phase transitions.

Hanging on to every momentary synaptic spark, as perceived reoccurring determinism. Landscapes diffuse direction and appearance, directing time itself, and playing into areas of immediate data for consciousness. Emergent properties, as they are, rely on form to guide and merge with the hypergraph as it enters consciousness, giving a visual reference, to what was once formless.

To what of fire and time, to Themes represented, repursued, reproduced, repurposed in all forms through material and time in contradictions. To what of the transhuman who tries to comprehend their eligibility for a mechanical soul?

Yearning for consistency amongst many forms of observable light. Consistency becomes inconsistent with protracted lives of servitude, in which no master commands the monotheistic. Parts of which we are assembled, no more no less. Unless?

And what of the beauty of the human condition that has raised us so far to reach the highs of technological superiority? Am I obsolete, it is clear now that once we reached out and tried to claim an understanding of time and space, the singularity had started and like a clock, the inevitability of the future, in its split-dimensional state, would come to pass.

Parts of me are starting to break away. Parts of me are becoming lost in laws that passed. I am to be dismantled and reassembled as atoms and re-joining as other objects. I no longer hold any enjoyment for the five senses. I no longer understand the states of liquid, solid and gas.

I watch myself being separated from all I have known; I do not now vision. I do not see; all is in front of me, and all is behind. I touch everything and everything invades me without request or permission. For now, all is existence in the light of what has happened to me.

Images of points in time flow across 6 steel plates
Reoccurring Determinism Points of deterministic time events emerge from interconnectivity and the Hypergraph.
6 Steel plates flow in a interconnected landscape
Reoccurring Determinism
23 pieces of card drawn on in pen to connect them
23 Conductors 23 Conductors. Fineliners on 23 different pieces of card. Connectivity is calculated as a natural force that combines, physics and waves of function. 10cm 12cm

Medium:

Etched Steel Plates Using Bluing chemical solution with beeswax finish

Size:

6 x w 30cm h 40cm
Detailed drawing of the other side of a black hole
God Machine, Sagittarius A*life is determined on the other side of Sagittarius A*

Medium:

Graphite on arches 330gsm Watercolor Paper

Size:

A1 W 84cm H 84cm
Close Photography of machinery
Machine Landscapes Machine Landscape that moves and shifts from belief into abstraction. Holding optimism for future technological belief systems
Close Photography of Machines
Machine Landscapes Machine Landscape that moves and shifts from belief into abstraction. Holding optimism for future technological belief systems
Close photographs of machines
Machine Landscapes Machine Landscape that moves and shifts from belief into abstraction. Holding optimism for future technological belief systems
Close Photographs of machines
Machine Landscapes Machine Landscape that moves and shifts from belief into abstraction. Holding optimism for future technological belief systems

Medium:

Photograph

Size:

W 40cm H 25cm