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Adam Dix

http://www.adamdix.com
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Adam Dix lives and works in London.

Adam completed his MA in Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art in 2009. Recent group exhibitions include The Catlin Art Prize, The Tramshed, London (2011); Unobtrusive Measures, Schwartz Gallery, London (2011) and Transmission, Haunch of Venison (2010). He will exhibit at Sumarria Lunn in May 2012.

Contemporary Art Society Members visited Adam's studio in November 2011.

" My previous work has concerned itself with the association between communication technology and our desire to communicate, by analysing our response to, and subsequent personification of, the objects of modern communication.

Here there has been a tendency to emphasise a sense of compliance in the association between the two, intentionally appropriating similar traits found in the genres of science fiction and religion, and exploring ideas of ritual and ceremony with respect to how we engage with communication technology.

By referring to traditional methods of communal communication, as found in the rites and customs of folklore and religion, comparisons between the past and present systems of communication are initiated, simultaneously emphasising
‘Sci-Fi’ as a contemporary folklore and acknowledging an exaggerated response to the subject’s relationship with regard to the ‘icon’ of communication.

As we know, any form of ceremony has a set of symbolic actions that involve the audience in the delivery of a message. Ceremony is a form of communication that informs the participant through a set of routines, offering an exchange of customary knowledge by way of combining the physical, visual and verbal through a performance. It is the incorporation of such core values in the work that conjures the central metaphor in expressing communal activity when responding to group telecommunication. Therefore this alliance by default, suggests the fertile growth of modern communication, as well as the disparity between the human desire to communicate and the physical isolation from others that technology engenders.

This has led to the production of several works that invite the viewer to engage in a secular celebration. A festival of communication, presided over by a Shamanic custodian that acts as a conduit between audience and subject."
- Adam Dix, 2012

http://haunchofvenison.com/exhibitions/past/2010/transmission/