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Scott Billings
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My practice explores the mimetic relationship between the technological body and the somatic form. I work in several mediums including video, sculpture, and moving apparatuses. A subset of
my practice represented in "Emergence: The Unexpected and the Unpredictable" consists of sculptural objects which reference modernist forms through industrial facture. In other words, I employ methods and materials common to industrial
design practices to examine how tropes of modernism interface with our physical body.
In "Brice Marden Annexation", I used 3D CAD software to effectively add a 3rd dimension to a Brice Marden painting. Through the rapid
prototyping method of SLA, the object was then printed in 3D. As such, the sculpture was not sculpted in the traditional sense. In fact, I would argue that it is not a sculpture at all but rather a representation of the design.
In "Half
Life Mask", I cut pieces from several UV-decayed plastic shells of high technology devices and then reassembled them on top of my face, making a sci-fi cyborg-like replica of it. The method represents the indexical method of death masks and the
connection between physiognomy and the blanketing of vulgar (inhuman) circuitry.
" His Master's Universe", a dense black sphere constructed from a stack of vinyl records, is titled in reference to the famous painting and RCA logo
His Master's Voice which depicts a dog tricked by a phonograph. The image connotes the historical moment mimicry entered the non-bodily form of technology (i.e. wires and grooves). The constructed sphere—the icon of the cosmos—suggest man's
mastery of both physical form and the cryptography of information: silent sound mysteriously infused into vinyl.
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Brice Marden Annexation 10 x 8 x 8 Inches SLA 3D print $1,445
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Half Life Mask 2.5 x 7 x 4 Inches plastic $685
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His Master's Universe (This Too Solid Flesh) 8 x 10 x 10 Inches 10-inch 78 rpm records $1,760
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Education |
2007-2009 UBC, MFA
2003-2007 Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, BFA
1997-2002 University of Waterloo, BASc (Mechanical Engineering)
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Solo Exhibitions |
2007 Point of View, Concourse Gallery, Solo installation in Media Gallery, Vancouver
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Group Exhibitions |
2009 Interrobang, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
2009 Signal and Noise, VIVO (Video In Video Out), Vancouver
2009 City Shorts, Van City Theatre, Film Festival, Vancouver
2008 Being There & Elsewhere, Organ Gallery, Chongqing, China
2007 Rad∙i∙cle, Canvas Gallery, Vancouver
2007 Post, AMS SUB Gallery, UBC, Vancouver
2007 Talk to the Hands, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver
2007 Enablers, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver,
2006 Visceral, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver
2005 Perception and Depiction, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver
2004 Painted, Subeez Gallery, Vancouver
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Awards |
2009 Andrew MacIntosh Book Prize, UBC
2006 Helen Pitt Award, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
2006 Friends of Sculpture Award, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
2004 Friends of Emily Carr Award, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
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Scholarships |
2008 SSHRC CGSM Scholarship Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada
Graduate Scholarships Masters, UBC
2008 BC Arts Council Graduate Scholarship, UBC
2007 MFA Graduate Entrance Scholarship, UBC
2004 Mary Catherine Gordon Memorial Scholarship, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
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