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Acritarchy

An Arrangement of Scattered Forms

2024

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Single-channel video

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1920 x 1080 px

An Arrangement of Scattered Forms" is a meditation on early twenty-first-century experiences of loss and obsolescence. Selections from a personal rock collection float in the quiet void of the Windows 3.1 screensaver "Starfield Simulation," a formerly ubiquitous solution to the problem of computer monitor burn-in, since rendered unnecessary by technological progress. Juxtaposing intimate objects and vignettes against this nostalgic backdrop, "An Arrangement of Scattered Forms" reflects on the ongoing transition from a culture coded by material memory—a photo in a scrapbook, the pixelated imprint of a ghost image—to a present marked by new forms of amnesia and melancholy.

About the Artist

Acritarchy

Acritarchy is a design collective based in New York City, interested in improving human habitat through the development of permeability in diverse disciplines.

Acritarchy's founder, James Andrew Billingsley, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in architecture and landscape architecture and was a visiting lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design. He is the co-founder and editor of *Cline*, an independent journal focused on emerging voices in landscape architecture and related fields. Billingsley also won Second Prize in The Avery Review's annual essay competition for his article "An Arboretum at the End of an Epoch," which explores the complex landscapes of Greenland, and he serves as the blog editor for The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology. 

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Gallery

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On the Critical Point

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Acritarchy

Acritarchy

An Arrangement of Scattered Forms

2024

Medium:

Single-channel video

Dimension:

1920 x 1080 px

An Arrangement of Scattered Forms" is a meditation on early twenty-first-century experiences of loss and obsolescence. Selections from a personal rock collection float in the quiet void of the Windows 3.1 screensaver "Starfield Simulation," a formerly ubiquitous solution to the problem of computer monitor burn-in, since rendered unnecessary by technological progress. Juxtaposing intimate objects and vignettes against this nostalgic backdrop, "An Arrangement of Scattered Forms" reflects on the ongoing transition from a culture coded by material memory—a photo in a scrapbook, the pixelated imprint of a ghost image—to a present marked by new forms of amnesia and melancholy.

About the Artist

Acritarchy

Acritarchy is a design collective based in New York City, interested in improving human habitat through the development of permeability in diverse disciplines.

Acritarchy's founder, James Andrew Billingsley, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in architecture and landscape architecture and was a visiting lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design. He is the co-founder and editor of *Cline*, an independent journal focused on emerging voices in landscape architecture and related fields. Billingsley also won Second Prize in The Avery Review's annual essay competition for his article "An Arboretum at the End of an Epoch," which explores the complex landscapes of Greenland, and he serves as the blog editor for The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology. 

Other featured artists

Chenlin Cai

2 works

Mengmeng Chen

1 work

Shaoyang Chen

1 work

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Gallery

/

On the Critical Point

/

Acritarchy

Acritarchy

An Arrangement of Scattered Forms

2024

Medium:

Single-channel video

Dimension:

1920 x 1080 px

An Arrangement of Scattered Forms" is a meditation on early twenty-first-century experiences of loss and obsolescence. Selections from a personal rock collection float in the quiet void of the Windows 3.1 screensaver "Starfield Simulation," a formerly ubiquitous solution to the problem of computer monitor burn-in, since rendered unnecessary by technological progress. Juxtaposing intimate objects and vignettes against this nostalgic backdrop, "An Arrangement of Scattered Forms" reflects on the ongoing transition from a culture coded by material memory—a photo in a scrapbook, the pixelated imprint of a ghost image—to a present marked by new forms of amnesia and melancholy.

About the Artist

Acritarchy

Acritarchy is a design collective based in New York City, interested in improving human habitat through the development of permeability in diverse disciplines.

Acritarchy's founder, James Andrew Billingsley, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in architecture and landscape architecture and was a visiting lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design. He is the co-founder and editor of *Cline*, an independent journal focused on emerging voices in landscape architecture and related fields. Billingsley also won Second Prize in The Avery Review's annual essay competition for his article "An Arboretum at the End of an Epoch," which explores the complex landscapes of Greenland, and he serves as the blog editor for The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology. 

Other featured artists

Chenlin Cai

2 works

Mengmeng Chen

1 work

Shaoyang Chen

1 work

Gong Chen

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