COLIN BURKE
Deliquescence, 2011 (installation view)
Site-specific interactive installation
Photograph by Mia O.
Deliquescence, 2011 (installation view)
Site-specific interactive installation
Photograph by Mia O.
Colin Burke repurposes media from Connecticut libraries into Deliquescence, a site-specific and interactive installation that explores how our engagement with library archives has been transformed by the transition from analog to digital.
The Whitney Library of the New Haven Museum focuses on the history of New Haven and its families from the 17th century to the present.
The Whitney Library of the New Haven Museum focuses on the history of New Haven and its families from the 17th century to the present.
Colin Burke is a visual artist who uses analog, antique photographic processes and methods, notably cyanotype photograms, using sunlight for exposure. He was born on the first day of summer, the longest day of the year, which he took quite literally until he figured it out. His birth announcement was an IBM computer punch card listing his father as project manager, his mother as programmer and himself as the project. His first memories of artmaking and drawing are associated with the shapes and grid pattern of IBM green plastic flowcharting templates. He is confident that anyone born after 1985 has no idea what that means. He has been obsessed with mid-century design, grid paper and process ever since.
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