About the Artist
Michael Schippling persists in attempting to order the confusion of material that passes through his life by reading, writing, and constructing artifacts. His work, written, pasted, welded, photographed, machined, and digitized, has been published and exhibited throughout the country.
He gravitates towards the technological because he finds the tools to be more flexible, if less well developed in their actual use, than traditional media. His aesthetic interest lies in veiled expressions of the erotic and the dangerous with occasional forays into the formal and the humorous. While he is conversant with history and theory, he prefers to mine the post-post-modern mis-en-scène for nuggets of undiscovered irony and hidden sub-text which are then bricolaged into his work. Recently he has become interested in Complex Systems which produce objects having a life of their own, and is pursuing this interest into autonomous robotics.
He has an Aesthetic Studies degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he studied photography and theater; and later, taught the introductory and advanced Electronic Music seminars that he was not qualified to take as a student. The degree proved useful in exhibit design arguments with the director of the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco. He taught the Machine Shop for Artists class at the Crucible in Berkeley, was a systems software engineer in Oakland, and a robotics researcher at the Santa Fe Institute. He is currently at large in Santa Fe, NM.
A catalog of his work may be found at:
Contact information:
Santa Fe, NM 87508
505-699-5054
schip@etantdonnes.com