Graham Parker is an artist and curator, as well as the director of floating ip (formerly a project space in Manchester, UK, now an imprint operating from New York). An alum of both the studio and architecture and urbanism programs of the Whitney Museum ISP, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Graham Parker's work is multimedia, though it is consistently focused on two principal areas: the visual image or distribution systems of text and the idea of the 'end user' - the inheritor and explorer of environments or systems designed by others (from provincial cities to graphic user interfaces; urban myths to plans for con tricks).
Parker's most recent work is influenced by moments of failure or stress in electronic communications and in turn the historic failures they echo - unmoderated and contradictory archives, computer generated spam e-mails, and crude bank logos from phishing scams have all been considered alongside Parker's ongoing investigation into the confidence trick in late-19th and early 20th century America, historical ideas of spectrality, and the philosophy of human/computer interaction.
In its execution, Graham Parker's work often uses materials and forms (typeset print, neon, newsprint) that were staples of an earlier moment in conceptual art history, but that are now reinvestigated for a current cultural phase dominated by electronic transactions and forms. Alongside this, Parker uses contemporary media such as digital photography, digital video and 3D animation programs - always with a questioning approach to the new visual conventions they imply or inherit from previous paradigms.
Past projects and shows / Ongoing projects / CV / floating ip
Current/forthcoming:
RxArt Coloring Book
Launching at Art Basel Miami Beach
December 2006
Protections
Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
October - November 2006
The Square Root of Drawing
Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
October - November 2006