Gregory A McCullough ARTICUL CTION A C o n t e m p o r a r y A r t R e v i e w Special Issue the object loses its functionality. It’s no do appreciate and see the significance of longer “what does this do”, “what is it good whatArticulaction does via the digital realms! for”- you instead are forced to engage with the artwork on an intimate personal level, as We have really appreciated the multifaceted you do with a person. Whom is this? How do I nature of your artistic research and before relate to it? You are more open to leaving this stimulating conversation we conversation and exchange with the artwork would like to thank you for chatting with us in the gallery setting. and for sharing your thoughts, Greg. What projects are you currently working on, and Two different technologies and media, two what are some of the ideas that you hope to different ways of interacting with art ... explore in the future? So is the audience changing – from one that promotes an intimate engagement with art to Gregory A McCullough:Thanks, it has been one that encourages a mobile passing over to fun. I hope I haven’t diverged too much from other viewers? Creating an Artwork whose your questions. I tend to circle around things purpose is to grabs eyeballs? Maybe these quite a lot, becoming obscure in my telling. aren’t two distinct audiences? Do we My studio has recently moved and one of my distinguish between the gallery goer and the current projects is a series based loosely on art book collector?. But definitely the art will thoroughbred racing. It is a new sport to me diverge depending on the venue. (the found in the area, and I like the quandary of it: medium as the message) is it a jockey-horse collaboration or are they There is a lot to say for both audience venues, just along for the ride?… yes, more athletes I I tend to still work in a manner that gives suppose, more striving and overcoming, more preference to the in person medium. Maybe I passion and story-lines. And the tones of have a legacy tendency to view the digital burnt sienna on some of the horses- a visual realm as more of a RSVP/ introduction to the joy to behold. It’s rarely one thing that grabs audience, even when I do realize there is my interest in a series and this one has several much more there in terms of communal hooks already for me. reactions that can be shared across time within the digital realms. I just prefer that one Also I’ve been procrastinating on building a can physically approach my work and discover Forsythe press, and I hope to complete that details. Zooming in with a pinch of the fingers by summer time. So I am likely to begin to isn’t comparable. Currently I hesitate to use then re-explore the medium of hand pulled Instagram for copyright reasons, not so much prints some what in the near future. audience concerns. So in terms of my relationship with the audience, it remains with the artwork acting as the intermediary. I An interview by , curator privilege that interaction of artwork/audience and , curator rather then the digital artist/audience. But I