Statement  :: Shirley Shor, 2005

My work is about the playful vitality of spaces that are defined by movement. A Personal Computer generates real time visuals that are based on a set of simple rules. The rules create new and complex orders. Abstract lines and surfaces in motion create an organic architecture that challenges our perception of space, time and boundaries.

In my work, I think about space as a verb, as an action, as a dynamic process that we are all taking part in.
I recreate space by constantly changing it.  I do so by injecting real time virtual elements into physical space and physical objects. The raw moments are a synthesis between the code and the territory.

For me, space (or “to make a place”) is a political act. To draw a line is to divide; to include and to exclude.
In my recent work I’m shifting from the idea of line as a limit, and from the act of transgression to the idea of liquid architecture that consists of lines in motion. This way I achieve the experience of being on the move. In these installations I don’t ask to “cross the border” since the border itself is constantly moving.

The motivation for attempting to make sense of space is coming from familiarity with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (I was born in Israel and moved to the States in 1997). This conflict is about territory and place.
The struggle over space is also a struggle about representation of reality.

With my recent software art installations, I’m exploring new creative approaches to work with the machine.
I have found the real time medium perfect to deliver my concepts of present, process, and changeable evolving architectural forms. Real time is my preferred medium; it is the only way for text-image and the world to become one. Real time visuals allow me to reclaim the lost aura of the digital product, since every given moment is unique and never self repetitive.