Tom R. Chambers is a documentary
photographer and visual artist with over forty "real"
world exhibitions in the United States, England, Australia, Russia,
Zimbabwe, South Korea, Philippines and Brazil and several "virtual"
world exhibitions. He is self-taught with numerous photo/visual
arts workshops and arts public programming to his credit. He
founded and directed a photography gallery, Viewpoint, which
catered to nationally-known photographers and was mentioned in
American Photo Magazine. Many of his projects are now a part
of various archives around the world, and he's currently working
with digital manipulation and generation as an art form and Pixelscapes
under the namesake of New Directions. He's heavily involved on
the Internet, having initiated and coordinated two hyperlinked
photo exhibitions for PhotoForum and under the auspices of the
Rochester Institute of Technology, and currently managing Focus
Gallery, an online gallery for those individuals who are using
digital manipulation and generation as an art form. He's also
teaching documentary photography at various Web sites.
Extract from a review by JD Jarvis,
Artist and Art Critic:
"The genre of Minimalism
makes a good verbal foundation for the work Chambers is exploring.
This new generation of work is challenging even those distinctions.
In terms of 'minimalism' these works seem almost 'elaborate',
with strong patterns emerging from the basic structure that is
the single pixel. Taken to the next extreme would be a sculptural
arrangement of individual squares (pixels) of a single color.
As if pixels have liberated themselves, through magnification,
from any other context and are now present as individual entities
in 'non-virtual' space. The potential for a huge installation
referenced as a unit (pattern) from a great distance or seen
as individual bits up close has implications for an individual's
life within a global community, as well as, commenting on digital
communication/art."
Pixelscapes: Next Generation
Exhibitions:
- Pixelscapes: Next Generation
(solo show), Global Art Internet Gallery, 2002.
- ArCade-III in Russia (Pixelscapes:
Next Generation) (group show) (an international exhibition of
computer generated prints), Novosibirsk, Russia (curated by Sue
Gollifer, University of Brighton and the London Institute, UK
and by Andrey Martynov, LeVall Art Gallery, Novosibirsk, Russia),
July 18 - 31, 2002.
- Pixelscapes: Next Generation
(solo show), LeVall Art Gallery, Novosibirsk, Russia, April 4-17,
2002.
Pixelscapes Exhibitions:
- Pixelscapes (solo show), VzualNet
Gallery, 2002.
- Pixelscapes (Celebration, Passion,
Go Green, Lift, Skyline I and Redistrict) (solo show), DigiZine.com,
2002.
- Pixelscapes (Celebration, Lemon-Lime,
Contact, Overseas, Passion, Go Green, Red Sweep, Runway, Lift,
Skyline II, Sunrise and Yellow Field) (solo show), It's Art,
Baby! Art!, 2002.
- Pixelscapes (Celebration, Lemon-Lime,
Contact, Overseas, Passion, Go Green, Red Sweep, Runway, Lift,
Skyline II, Sunrise and Yellow Field) (solo show), K Blue Square
Gallery, 2001.
- Pixelscapes (Celebration, Passion,
Lift, Skyline I, Sunrise and Redistrict) (solo show), Digital
Salon Gallery, 2001.
- Pixelscapes (group show), 2nd
Interpoetry Exhibition - The Hypermedia Poetics, Faculty of Philosophy,
Letters and Education, Presbyterian University Mackenzie, S"o
Paulo, Brazil, 2001.
- Pixelscapes (group show), Digital
Media Festival 2001, College of Fine Arts, University of the
Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, 2001.
- Pixelscapes (Medic, Overseas
and Passion) (solo show), Museum of Computer Art (MOCA), 2001.
- Pixelscapes (Skyline I and Skyline
II) (group show), Information Visualization Symposium 2001, The
Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, University
of London, London, England, 2001.
Pixeltone: Scan Series
Exhibitions:
- 6th International Information
Visualization Conference, DART (Pixeltones: Scan Series) (group
show), University of London, London, England, July 10-12, 2002.
- Glass Membrane: Scanner to Screen
(Pixeltones: Scan Series and Toe Totem) (group show), Digital
Studio, UCR/California Museum of Photography, Los Angeles, CA,
U.S.A., March 23, 2002 - May 12, 2002 (Curated by Ted Fisher).
- Pixeltones (solo show), VzualNet
Gallery, 2002.
Pixeltone Gradients: Shift Series Exhibitions:
- Digital Showcase 15 (Pixeltone
Gradients: Shift Series) (group show), Austin Museum of Digital
Art (AMODA), Austin, Texas, May 28, 2002.
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Tom Chambers
e-Artist
YBM
43-3, Bumeo-3Dong, Susung-Gu
Taegu 706-013
South Korea
e-mail: tex1947@kornet.net
and chambersdva@yahoo.com
wwweb: http://tomchambers.0catch.com
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