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Dendrochronological Data Sequences
Artist
Andrzej M. Zielinski
(United States, born 1976)
Date2015
MediumWood, bronze, paint, stain, and powder-coated steel with caster wheels
DimensionsH x W x D: 43 x 35 x 6 in. (109.2 x 88.9 x 15.2 cm)
Object TypeSculptures
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, 2016 Friends of the Beach Museum of Art purchase
Object number2016.32
On View
Not on view• Dendrochronology is the science of studying the annual growth rings in the cross-sections of tree trunks. Tree rings store information not only about the age of a tree, but also fluctuations of annual growth due to environmental events or changes.
• Computers store, analyze, and compare characters and symbols in order to discover meaningful patterns in very large data sets.
• The artist has said that he is interested in how information is captured, stored, and transmitted in nature and human civilization, and often thinks about the life of an object holding information or data.
• Zielinski, in a 2015 interview, said that his sculptures evoke “the history of technology, with the Stone Age, the Bronze [Age], woodworking, plastics… and these all coalesce into a digital idea.”
• When asked about what one work meant, in that same 2015 interview, Zielinski replied: “They need not have specific literal meanings, but to me what generates them [meanings] is the machine I’m depicting. But, from there I let things… go, I let the materials speak for themselves and be honest in what they are.”
• Computers store, analyze, and compare characters and symbols in order to discover meaningful patterns in very large data sets.
• The artist has said that he is interested in how information is captured, stored, and transmitted in nature and human civilization, and often thinks about the life of an object holding information or data.
• Zielinski, in a 2015 interview, said that his sculptures evoke “the history of technology, with the Stone Age, the Bronze [Age], woodworking, plastics… and these all coalesce into a digital idea.”
• When asked about what one work meant, in that same 2015 interview, Zielinski replied: “They need not have specific literal meanings, but to me what generates them [meanings] is the machine I’m depicting. But, from there I let things… go, I let the materials speak for themselves and be honest in what they are.”
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