b. 1981 in Wilmington, DE.  

Lives and works in Long Island City and New York, NY

Joe Winter works in many media. His sculptures, images, and sound-based works evolve through research into specific technological and mechanical systems. Recent projects have involved photocopiers, record players, tape recorders, and scanners. 

The two works exhibited here are from a series of works that attempt to uncover moments of significance in the optical artifacts and mechanical limitations of common imaging technologies. Both works use an everyday technology—an inkjet printer and A4 paper—and treat the act of desktop publishing as a singularly important event. The images comprising Printershake/Earthquake were printed while violently shaking the printer. The resulting colour misalignments, interference patterns, and distortions alternately read as scientific data (EKG, seismography, spectrometry) and abstract drawings. In Inkjet/Sunset, the same image of a blue sky is printed over and over until the printer's ink cartridges are emptied. One print is made each day at a specific time chosen in relationship to the moment of sunset in Manchester, proposing a series of parallels between these two time-based daily events. 

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images

Inkjet/Sunset
2008
Inkjet printer and prints
Courtesy of the artist

Printershake/Earthquake
2007/2008
Courtesy of the artist