1275 Minnesota St /
Anglim / Trimble Gallery
Reception with the artists and curator on Saturday, November 19 from 4-6pm in the gallery.
Anglim/Trimble announces BULL.MILETIC Zoom Blue Dot: Stills, curated by Carol Covington. BULL.MILETIC is the collaborative duo, Synne Tollerud Bull and Dragan Miletic. Zoom Blue Dot: Stills is a part of their recently completed artistic research project, Proxistant Vision, in which the duo has extensively investigated the current surge in aerial imaging technologies such as drones and satellites. In this work, the pair has identified the emergence of a new visual paradigm that combines proximity and distance into one image. Coining the term “proxistance” to describe this phenomenon, the artists’ intent is to show how surveillance targeting and tracking technologies have shaped “screen culture” today in science, art, and digital geography.
The art prints on view at the gallery are all still frames from the artists’ kinetic video installation, Zoom Blue Dot. Each still’s title refers to the time code of the video in the installation, marking its “slice” of the path between proximity and distance. Zoom Blue Dot is currently on view at the Museum of Craft and Design as part of the exhibition BULL.MILETIC: Proxistant Vision, alongside two other installations.
In the Zoom Blue Dot segment of this project, BULL.MILETIC focuses on the “proxistant” Earth models produced with data obtained by orbiting satellites combined with ground and airborne imaging. In regard to Earth’s depiction as a “speck of dust” in the photograph from Voyager 1 at a distance of 4 billion miles away, this inquiry into “proxistance” is concerned primarily with the question of scale.