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Beacon Journal Reviews Art Work of Alumnus Logan Fry
Photographs of art works by Heather Protz
JUNE 7, 2001--A writer for the Sunday's Akron Beacon Journal has reviewed source://code, a new collection of works by Richfield, Ohio, artist Logan Fry '66. The pieces are on view through June 30 at the Millworks Gallery in Akron.
"Fry's work is conceptual in nature," writes reviewer Dorothy Shinn, "in much the same way as Jenny Holzer's invented aphorisms. Both use language as symbols, the letters and numbers as objects which, because they either move by us too fast or are unintelligible, become pattern--a way of placing something in a format or a medium that is neither pictorial nor representational, yet has visual and intellectual import. "
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| Digital Interface, like the other works in source://code relates to "mankind's coming connection to computer systems by direct wiring," says Fry, explaining that such a connection is a theme explored in the publications of Ray Kurzweil. |
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| 1944 3x is the bar code for the year of Fry's birth, executed three times. "I can write anything in bar code!" says Fry. "Just like a sampler of old." |
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| Ideographic Sampler V.2 is based on Cosmic Call, a language project begun by two Canadian physicists for communicating with extraterrestrials. |
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