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The Post-Natural History Museum

August 5, 2013 by Max Liboiron

The Post-Natural History Museum , 2005 Installation with cut outs, sharpie marker, minature dioramas, and pinhole photographs Lawrence Alloway Memorial Gallery, Stony Brook, NY. The Post-Natural History Museum is a critical installation concerning how nature is depicted in natural history dioramas. Pinhole photographs and miniature dioramas make up an alternative, more contemporary, version of “the natural;” they include factory farms, GMOs, mythical beasts, and ecological nightmare logic. The pinhole photographs are taken from The American Museum of Natural History in […]

Categories: Art • Tags: critique, dioramas, installation, museum of post-natural history, natural history, post-natural history

Abundance

August 5, 2013 by Max Liboiron

I used early woodcuts of the New World as source material to redraw a three-dimensional stage-like environment and create flash animations. Many 16th to 18th century depictions of the New World are skewed towards lushness and adventure, including a tendency to depict an overpowering sexuality or monstrosity in plants, Native Americans, and the landscape. Woodcuts and engravings were the first images able to be mass produced and distributed, and were instrumental in popularizing the New World as being wild and […]

Categories: Art • Tags: animation installation, colonialism, installation art, landscape, natural history, New World narratives, science fiction, science friction, wood cuts

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