Leonardo On-Line: Victor Acevedo




                        Artist: Victor Acevedo

My interest in geometrical structure, periodic space division and polyhedra has continued to be an integral part of my ongoing digital work. I have always maintained that the graphical and mathematical territory that M.C. Escher first explored and charted in the twentieth century will remain a well-spring of significant inquiry now and well into the future.

Sad Voyeur (oil on canvas, 1981)

Void Matrix Lattice (graphite on paper, 1983)

I created Void Matrix Lattice for the April 1983 issue of Movement to illustrate an article on Carl Pribram's holographic brain theory entitled "The Real New Wave."

For me, Void Matrix Lattice was a break-through piece. This piece combines intermittent clusters of isotropic vector matrices, or octet-truss subdivisions of inclusive tetrahedral perspectival enclosure, while also referencing Escher's perspectival pun in Relativity, as well as the back of a young boy on a chair in reference to Dali's Suntable.

Approximately Noon Onward (oil on canvas, 1982-83)

Ectoplasmic Kitchen (computer graphic, 1987)

Around 1983 I came upon a book edited by Ken Wilber called The Holographic Paradigm and other Paradoxes: Exploring the Leading Edge of Science, which dealt with the same subject matter as the Pribram article.

This book, like the Tao of Physics 5 years earlier, impacted my thinking and graphic work. It includes an amazing short paper by William A. Tiller that puts forth a generalized description of the structure of space as being embedded in the spirit---an idea that I interpret as omni-cymatic embodiment, i.e. void-matrix nodal density in holonomic four-dimensional refraction.

Napoleonic Seal (oil on canvas, 1979)

Slated Breakfast-Visceral Analytic (oil on canvas, 1981)

Tiller goes on to say that this space is a six-dimensional Euclidean space articulated as a close-packed hexagonal lattice with active nodal points. Other than the Euclidean part, this sounds a lot like a description of an aspect of Fuller's isotropic vector matrix.

More about Acevedo's work.

Victor Acevedo,
167 Avenue B, #3F,
New York, NY 10009,
U.S.A.
E-mail: acevedo4@earthlink.net

At present Victor Acevedo has shown his work in over 70 exhibitions worldwide including SIGGRAPH 98, NY Digital Salon 1996 & 1994, ISEA 1993, and Prix Ars Electronica 1991. In 1998 he was invited to show his work in the exhibition at the M.C. Escher Centennial Congress in Rome, Italy. In Los Angeles from 1990 thru 1997 as a founding member of the Digilantes in conjunction with EZTV Cyberspace Gallery he helped organize seven noteworthy "underground" digital art shows including Silent Partners 1992, Digital Salon Des Independents 1993, Digital Site 1995 and L.A. Digilantes 1997. Originally from Los Angeles, Acevedo studied fine art at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He is currently based in New York City where he lectures at the School of Visual Arts on the theory and practice of digital art.

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