YEVGENIY FIKS



Yevgeniy Fiks has created a series of 100 black-and-white digital files entitled Ethnic Hardware/Ethnic Software and saved them on 100 floppy disks. Each floppy disk contains only one file. The disks will be available at the FREE MANIFESTA headquarters. In Ethnic Hardware/Ethnic Software, computer ads of today's America are translated into Yiddish and juxtaposed with documentary photographs from the WW2 era. Ethnic art requires ethnic tools. The Yiddish Typewriter was used to generate text graphics. Digital image manipulation and final layouts were executed in Adobe Photoshop 6.0. If Yiddish Photoshop had existed, the artist would have used it.


Ethnic Hardware/Ethnic Software -- eto seriya iz 100 cherno-belikh zifrovikh faylov kotorie Yevgeniy Fiks razmestil na 100 komputernikh disketakh. Kazhdaya disketa soderzhit tol'ko odin fayl. Disketi mozhno budet poluchit' v shtab-kvartire FREE MANIFESTA. V Ethnic Hardware/Ethnic Software, obraztzi komputernoy reklami segodneshney Ameriki perevedeni na idish i sovmecheni s dokumental'nimi fotografiyami vremyon Vtoroy Mirovoy Voini. Etnicheskoe iskusstvo trebuet etnicheskie instrumenti. Tekstovaya grafika bila sdelana pri pomochi The Yiddish Typewriter . Zifrovaya manipulyaziya imidzhev i konechniy dezayn bili sdelani v Adobe Photoshop 6.0. Esli be idishistskiy Photoshop suchestvoval, avtor bi vospol'zovalsya im.



HOW TO LOCATE

Ethnic Hardware/Ethnic Software floppy disks will be available at the FREE MANIFESTA headquarters.


Ethnic Hardware/Ethnic Software disketi mozhno budet poluchit' v shtab-kvartire FREE MANIFESTA.



ABOUT THE ARTIST

Yevgeniy Fiks's work has been shown at Rhizome OpenMouse, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Parsons School of Design, The Bronx River Art Center, Trenton City Museum, Mercer County College, Visual Arts Gallery, Downtown Arts Festival, Eight Floor Gallery, Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage Museum, Brooklyn College, and Business of Art Center among others. Yevgeniy‚s art criticism and artist‚s texts appeared in Moscow Art Magazine and NY Arts Magazine. Yevgeniy holds a B.F.A. degree in Studio Art from Brooklyn College and an M.F.A. degree in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts in New York.


Raboti Yevgeniya Fiksa vistavlyalis' v Rhizome OpenMouse, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Parsons School of Design, The Bronx River Art Center, Trenton City Museum, Mercer County College, Visual Arts Gallery, Downtown Arts Festival, Eight Floor Gallery, Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage Museum, Brooklyn College, and Business of Art Center, a takzhe i drudizh vistavkakh. Khudozhestvenniy kritizizm i avtorskie teksti Yevgeniya publikovalis' v Moskovskom Khudozhestvennom Zhurnale i NY Arts Magazine. Yevgeniy poluchil diplom Bakalavra Izyachnikh Iskusstv v Bruklinskom Koledzhe i diplom Magistra Izyachnikh Iskusstv v Shkole Vizual'nogo Iskusstva v New Yorke.



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