Alan Warburton (b.1980, Scotland, based in London) - an artist and writer
with a background in fine art and commercial visual effects. His work often deconstructs CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) and post-production workflows, reflecting on the use and impact of these technologies on the visual culture.
Lookout Gallery opens the season with an exhibition by Karol Komorowski & Alan Warburton. In Komorowski's new photographs and the accompanying movie Spherical Harmonics by Alan Warburton, both artists employ CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) to redefine the status of the image, exploring how these new technologies alter the perception of reality.
- Distrust in images is already an obsolete artistic formula. We have accepted the reality structured by two - dimensional representations. One cannot escape into this virtuality, nor can one escape from it – some kind of pure abstraction would still remain. Even the difference between silver halides, pixels and CGI has lost its importance. Today, images are our "real world" and virtual reality is gone. How, then, should we define this realism? How does...