"X-Ray Vision vs. Invisibility"
Tuesday September 10th, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Goldwin Smith Hall G22
Abstract
X-Ray Vision vs. Invisibility employs multiple craft mediums to speak about the formal properties of machine vision surveillance artifacts and the phenomenological effects these vision technologies have on the perception of undocumented immigrants. The images used in X-Ray Vision vs. Invisibility were collected from border patrol, satellite systems, and vigilante websites. I build multi-layered projects that remediate images used to patrol international borders into hand-woven tapestries, embroideries, and the 19th century processes of cyanotype and wet-plate collodion. The remediation in X-Ray Vision vs. Invisibility serves to physicalize the machine vision imagery currently being used to patrol international borders. This translation proposes that subtle shifts in medium can evoke new emotional relationships with images that can have transformative effects on the viewing experience.
Biography
Noelle Mason is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work is about the subtle seductiveness of power facilitated by systems of visual and institutional control. Noelle has shown nationally and internationally in galleries, and institutions around the world including the National Museum of Mexican Art, Orlando Museum of Art, the Benaki Museum in Athens Greece, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist Grant, a Jerome Fellowship, the Santo Foundation Individual Artist Grant, the Florida Prize for Contemporary Art and the Southern Prize. In 2004 Noelle was a resident at the Skowhegan school of Painting and Sculpture. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Art at the University of South Florida.
