Exhibition May 2023 - SW France
(and in its current second iteration and extenstion for 2024):
"Run From / Escape Into The Machine"
"Integral" reflections on how we can't make sense of technology, without talking about religion (or "faith")...and we can't make sense of art without talking about technology

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Integrating the Good, True and Beautiful (faith, science and art) as one "Web of Meaning"

"My vision for this evolving exhibition is to integrate the figurative and abstract into a series of works that explore how we can hold the fundamental dialectics of our human condition as a "whole" and as a dynamic.

Our sensemaking is one of continual movement between subjective (1st person), social (2nd person) and rational/scientific (3rd person) realities.

I'm seeking here to play with those movements of opposites from "Deus ex Machina" ("God From The Machine" a phrase that has been around since the time of Greek theater), to "Man Into The Machine")!.

I believe that art holds a crucial opportunity for creating spaces of dialogue in emergent, intuitive and embodied (aesthetic) exchanges.

John Oliver (Tyler), May 2024