Our lives are massively bombarded by images. Should we celebrate that fact or dread its consequences? As a creator of images, Michael Salu is interested in communication they provoke. Can communication through images nd our advancement with digital experiences actually help us reach a greater level of empathy for each other? Or should we fear the reverse?
Michael Salu's story The Nod explores identity through virtual reality and appears in issue 1 (Arrival) of Freeman's Journal.
I spoke with Freeman's Journal about some of the underlying elements structure my recent art practice, which is manifesting in both text and image as I explore the representation through the physical and the digital.
Photo © John Freeman
Freeman's Journal landed at new bookshop Liberia in February as preview event before the shop's official opening. I joined editor John Freeman and short story writer extraordinare Helen Simpson in a discussion about migration, what drives us to write, where we find characters and how we talk about the world.
Has access to hard data actually helped us to know more than before?
What can't Big Data tell us? What does all of this information mean for the unknowable, the intangible, the essential mystery of life?
Local Transport presents three short, sharp, multimedia performances from innovative artists and writers.
Michael Salu & Rut Blees Luxemburg, Natasha Caruana and Catherine Anyango take the stage for fifteen minutes each. They tell stories of love at first sight, dystopia and Big Data using words, photography and illustration.
Art billboard takeover. My psycho-geographic movement between text and image continues #welcometoSOUL
Students arriving for my talk.
Looking back at my career thus far with students from Falmouth School of Art.
I held a moment on stage, as did Anne Carson, Colum McCann, Garnette Cadogan, Honor Moore, Tahmima Anam, Laura van den Berg & Ishion Hutchinson to read a segment from our contributions to the inaugural edition of Freeman's Journal last September in front of a packed room of about 700 people. A definite career highlight for me.
In October I joined writers Tahmima Anam, Helen Simpson and editor John Freeman on stage for an event on 'arrival' at The Southbank Centre for the London Literature Festival.
The remaining limited edition (20 of each) signed 12x12" #screenprints from @michelsalu art series for Nils Frahm’s special edition of his ‘Spaces’ album are being prepped for our new @depop (@saluspace) store. Available from Monday. This one is entitled #space #digitalart #3dart #digitalsculpture #limitededition #newmedia #oldmedia #contemporaryart #digitalillustration #generativeart #nilsfrahm #space #nasa #molecular #spaces #erasedtapesrecords #vinylmeplease #albumart #printmaking #3dartist #timeandspace #spaceandtime #spacetravel (hier: Berlin, Germany)
The remaining limited edition signed #screenprints from @michelsalu art series for Nils Frahm’s special edition of his ‘Spaces’ album are being prepped for our new @depop (@saluspace) store. Available from Monday. This one is entitled #amoeba #digitalart #3dart #digitalsculpture #limitededition #newmedia #oldmedia #contemporaryart #digitalillustration #generativeart #nilsfrahm #space #nasa #molecular #spaces #erasedtapesrecords #vinylmeplease #albumart #timeandspace #spaceandtime #spacetravel (hier: Berlin, Germany)
Consolidate your #desire
#collage (hier: Berlin, Germany)
#Micro #space & #time
#molecular #nasa (hier: Berlin, Germany)
#experimental #sculptures based on the heart. Works in prog. #digitalart #digitalillustration #digitalsculpture #3dart #3dprinting #3dsculpture #3dillustration #experimentalart #graphicdesign #digitalillustration #artdirection #newmedia #newmediaart (hier: Berlin, Germany)
Should we celebrate the image society? My Ted talk on visual culture and the economy of deception & propaganda is now on YouTube http://youtu.be/blSKwiKTsWU. Discussing everything from nuclear war and growing up in Britain to memes, surrealism and #vr and of course Can’t beat a bit of @sandroparis while on stage 🤓👔 #tedx #tedtalks #tedxtalks #artisttalk #propaganda #image #memeculture #surrealism #artmovement #digitalexperience #userexperience #deathofbeauty #endofbeauty #visualculture #contemporaryart #modernlanguage #celebrity #instafame #creativewriting (hier: Berlin, Germany)
#Repost @saluspace with @repostapp.
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What is an artist? Next week @michelsalu will be giving an art lecture @falmouthuni discussing a polymathic career that straddles design, art, creative writing, criticism and more. Pictured is the classic Granta Magazine Sex issue cover, acknowledged by @d_and_ad and @coverjunkie in 2010. #creativedirection #artcareer #artist #multidisciplinary #creativewriting #creativefiction #artdirection #magazinecover #magazinedesign #duchamp #michaelsalu #graphicdesign #classicdesign #designer #awardwinningdesigner #creativedesign #conceptualartist #conceptualart #bookdesign #creativethinking #polymath #creativeminds (hier: Falmouth University)
Children of Wrath. #welcometosoul #childrenofwrath #wareconomy #distraction #yourebeautiful #narcissism #refugee #meme #newmeme #3dart #3dsculpture #digitalart #digitalartist #instafame #encanta #miencanta #portrait #digitalsculpture #sculpture #oppression #oilmemes #oilart #monoconomy #memeart #propaganda #arteconomy #neocolonialism #slaying #slavery #welcometoSOUL (hier: Berlin, Germany)
Today’s rumination. #kanyewest #donaldtrump #americandream #theamericandream #americanhistory #swish #michaelsalu (hier: Berlin, Germany)
What is art? Type tests.
#noart #whatisart #typography #3dart #3dtype #3dartist #typedesign #lichtenbergfigure #skin #mysteriouskin #affliction #naturalaesthetics #digitalart #digitaltype #tattootype #scarification #bodymarking #helvetica #3dtypography (hier: Berlin, Germany)
Children of Wrath. Work in progress.
