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Dark Learning (act 9)

by Jacobus Capone

Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2015
 

Finalist, Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2015
Single channel HD video

Dark Learning (act 9) by Jacobus Capone, b. 1986, Western Australia. Video length: 2:12

Dark learning (act 9) is part of an ongoing process attempting to integrate all action into the wholeness of one lived experience. The project seeks an uncertain equilibrium by means of direct engagement, extinguishing all thought and instead putting faith in sensation. Subtle enactments and observations (either brief or durational) become components orchestrating an ongoing journey to better fathom one’s relationship to the natural world and seek a more holistic sense of engagement devoid of direct intellectualization.

Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2015
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Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2015

Previous exhibition, 2015

An annual event to extend traditional notions of portraiture and foster emerging artists with an interest in contemporary technology.
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