{"id":4641,"date":"2020-07-02T17:08:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T17:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=4641"},"modified":"2024-04-12T17:24:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T17:24:37","slug":"ants-as-a-superorganism-on-an-art-gallery-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/ants-as-a-superorganism-on-an-art-gallery-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Ants on an art gallery wall. Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Note:  this work has coincidental similarities to <em>House Taken\u00a0<\/em>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gomezbarros.com\/house-taken\">Rafael Gomezbarros<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My concept predates that of Gomezbarros, mine being originally conceived in the 1990s to accompany an article in the Guardian newspaper, while Gomezbarros&#8217;s work was created in the 2000&#8217;s (as far as I can tell).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/contemporary-art-science-ants-superorganism.jpg\" alt=\"Contemporary art and science - ants and insects as a superorganism\" title=\"contemporary art and science \u2013 ants as a superorganism\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A proposal for an artwork about ants as a super organism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Artist&#8217;s impression for a gallery installation.    January 2020.     Based on a work from 1990<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A proposal or concept for an artwork showing ants crawling across an art gallery wall, with the ants grouping together and coalescing into the form of a single gigantic ant.<br>The artwork depicts the concept of the superorganism, in which multiple individual organisms of the same species (in this case ants) interact by a process of synergy to give rise to a collective body that can operate in ways that the individuals can&#8217;t. The individual organisms within the superorganism usually display a degree of division of labour or specialisatoin of function, meaning that the individual organisms can&#8217;t survive for long on their own. Human civilisation is often defined as a form of superorganism, although this isn&#8217;t strictly accurate, as humans can survive alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/contemporary-art-science-ants-superorganism.jpg\" alt=\"Contemporary art and science - ants and insects as a superorganism\" title=\"contemporary art and science \u2013 ants as a superorganism\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ants in the work may be two dimensional, such as in a mural, or three dimensional such as in a sculptural work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/contemporary-art-ants-superorganism-2.jpg\" alt=\"Contemporary art ants\" title=\"contemporary art \u2013 ants\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: this work has coincidental similarities to House Taken\u00a0by Rafael Gomezbarros. My concept predates that of Gomezbarros, mine being originally conceived in the 1990s to accompany an article in the Guardian newspaper, while Gomezbarros&#8217;s work was created in the 2000&#8217;s (as far as I can tell). 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