Anne de Vries

Interface – Downstairs

Title: Interface – Downstairs
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2014
Dimensions: 164 × 124 cm
Materials: Two digital prints on Photo Forex sheets with CNC cut-outs; painted wooden frame
About:
Interface explores the relationship between observation and thought, and considers how the exchange between the two might be visualized. Developed in relation to early discussions around artificial intelligence, the work reflects on attempts to model and clarify the often complex processes through which reality is perceived and understood.

The project also engages with the history of photography and its claim to document reality. By using photography to suggest perception as fragmented, layered, and non-linear, the work challenges ideas of photographic clarity and objectivity, proposing instead an experience of the world that is subjective, composite, and constructed.

Interface – Musashi

Title: Interface – Musashi
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2014
Dimensions: 164 × 124 cm
Materials: Two digital prints on Photo Forex sheets with CNC cut-outs; painted wooden frame
About:
The Interface project is informed by processes of tracking thought and observation, and by an interest in how the constant exchange between the two might be visualized. This inquiry was shaped by broader technological preoccupations of the time, particularly in the early days of A.I., when there was a growing attempt within the tech world to model and make legible the often messy cognitive processes through which we perceive and understand reality. The work also engages with the history of photography and its longstanding investment in the documentation of “reality.” By using photography to visualize perception as fragmented, layered, and non-linear, the project questions ideas of photographic clarity and objectivity, suggesting instead that our experience of the world may be closer to painting – subjective, composite, and constructed – than we might like to admit.

Interface – Easy Jet

Anne de Vries Interface artwork made with photography and cnc.

Title: Interface – Easy Jet
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2014
Dimensions: 164 × 124 cm
Materials: Two digital prints on Photo Forex sheets with CNC cut-outs; painted wooden frame
About:
The Interface project is shaped by an interest in thought, observation, and how the constant exchange between the two might be visualized. This inquiry emerged alongside broader technological concerns of the time, particularly in the early days of A.I., when the tech world was increasingly trying to model and make legible the complex cognitive processes through which we perceive and understand reality.
The work also engages with the history of photography and its longstanding investment in documenting “reality.” By using photography to visualize perception as fragmented, layered, and non-linear, the project questions ideas of photographic clarity and objectivity, suggesting instead that our experience of the world may be closer to painting: subjective, composite, and constructed.

Infinite Value

annedevries_infinite_value

Title: Infinite Value
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2009
Dimensions: 5 × 74 × 53 cm
Materials: Three digital prints layered within a custom wooden frame

About:
This work features three digital prints overlaid inside a custom wooden frame. By milling out sections of the first print, another version of the same image is revealed, creating a layered visual effect.