CIM System

CIM system explores the tension between automatized industrial repetition and manual ritualized repetition. An image of a CIM system circuit (industrial automation circuit) is painstakingly reproduced by hand in a halftone pattern. At a distance, the image reads almost like a digital image, but up close the rough hand drawn lines, smudges and worn paper become visible. In the artist’s ultimate inevitable failure to perfectly reproduce a digital image by hand, the manual bleeds into the robotic, disrupting and degrading the image with the human essence. The use of a larger scale halftone places the image in an uncomfortable zone, neither legible or illegible, and gestures towards the history of automated image reproduction and distribution. I am interested in questioning the relationship between the handmade and tactile and the mass produced, both in regards to objects and in regards to image production, reproduction and distribution.