variation 003 : an exploration of variation, play, chance & interpretation
Limited Edition Prints
iheart variation 003 original editions by Seth Indigo Carnes
Edition Size, Quantity and Price
8 x 8 inches, edition of 250 each at $25
24 x 24 inches, edition of 25 each at $480
iheart variation 003_10 by Douglas Rushkoff and Shaun Friesen
Edition Size, Quantity and Price
8 x 8 inches, edition of 50 each at $50
the gleam that turned on an exploded novel, special edition for Internet Week by Douglas Rushkoff, Shaun Friesen, and Seth Indigo Carnes
Edition Size, Quantity and Price
16 x 16 inches, edition size and price TBD
Artists’ Statement
directions: cut up, chew and spit out
We chose to return to the source of modern cut-up: the Beats and other 60’s psychedelic creators who sought to reclaim the power of language, art, chemicals, and sex from the elites who had monopolized them for centuries. Whether it was Burroughs cutting up text, Leary promoting neurochemistry, Ginsberg teaching love, or Warhol artifying industry, these are the fathers of mash.
Edition Description
the gleam that turned on an exploded novel is a collaborative benefit edition between writer Douglas Rushkoff, Shaun Friesen, and Seth Indigo Carnes created for Internet Week NY 2011.
Proceeds from the sale of this edition will be given to the New York City Department of Education general fund. Inspired by an invitation from Carnes to experiment with his ArtWeLove iheart variation 003 print series which explores powerful symbols in human society, the artists were invited to re-arrange and re-contextualize five images: iheart, heart, splat, pill, and camera.
Ultimately, new meanings were created, resulting in iheart variation 003_010, which celebrates what Carnes states as “the grand collage that is life and meaning in flux.” Sourced from Beat generation literature and concepts exploring freedom of expression, the fragments of text in the iheart variation 003_010 symbols were accessed online through google search and deliberately extracted to retain their pixelated qualities.
Language was cut from The Ticket That Exploded by William S. Burroughs, Turn on, tune in, drop out by Timothy Leary, Night Gleam by Allen Ginsberg, and A: a novel by Andy Warhol and purposely rearranged within the silhouettes of Carnes’s original symbols.
Documentation of Rushkoff-Friesen variation creation process:
