Lance Winn

Lance Winn is a professor in the Department of Art and Design, and in the Center for Material Culture Studies, at the University of Delaware. His personal work searches for the language embedded in processes of reproduction. From painting to robotic and three-dimensional modeling, he investigates a poetics of construction that might speak to current conditions, particularly as they relate to mediation and technology. His academic research is directed most specifically towards a dialectics of modernity, best represented by Benjamin’s Arcades Project, and extending into material culture, architecture, and the affects of time on objects. Alongside this research Winn is studying alternate systems of visualization, particularly thermal imaging and other ways of seeing outside the visual spectrum, and is working with ways of capturing three-dimensional information.

(re)memory *co-presenting with Jason Ferguson

Jason J Ferguson and Lance Winn have been investigating the promise of big data coupled with the loss and sense of distance that accompanies the digital age since 2019. The duo engages with cyberspace; collaborating with social media, satellite images and topographies, and the code of search engines to evolve forms that reflect on access to information, captured from afar. They then use digital fabrication techniques to extract their investigations of virtual space back into the physical world as epistemological objects exploring how we come to know things now. Ferguson and Winn use the language of mechanical fabrication to reconstruct and make material the power of the virtual as well as revealing the glitches of translation. The two consider these models to highlight the hyper-connectivity found in the digital age as well as the subsequent gaps found where information, and communication, are missing.

Website
https://www.lancewinn.com