REED GHAZALA
If you've ever said digital photography can do everything film can, Qubais Reed Ghazala invites you to a enjoy a delicious dinner of your own words. Ghazala will literally manipulate an image between the lens and the subject or the camera and the film to concoct otherworldly aleatoric images that occurred under conditions that could not be repeated in a billion years. Besides time-exposure and pyrotechnic lighting, the artist will modify his lenses and cameras, or employ camera-free techniques where, as seen in the image at left, dye migration materials are hand-manipulated in the dark.
These are just a few of the experimental methods Ghazala uses to change the way we view photography and remind us that there is always more to know than we thought there was.
"Now THAT would be chance-y."
Reed Ghazala is a self-taught, self-executed, self-exiled multi-media artist. As the explorer of these pages will quickly discover, all of Reed's work --visual, audio, musical instrument design and writing-- reflects an unusual thinking-space. Reed not only bends the rules; more so, he makes up (and publishes!) his own. Perhaps this might take shape in musical instruments that conduct electricity through their players. Or those that are controlled by hand shadows and produce chance music. Fantastic landscapes of never-never worlds might rise out of reconsidered film stock. Digital mediums might resolve at atomic level. The visitor will find technical theories and art mediums turned inside-out.
Reed's sculptural experimental instruments have been built for Tom Waits, Peter Gabriel, King Crimson's Pat Mastalotto, Faust, Chris Cutler, Towa Tei, Yann Tomita, Blur and many other interesting musicians. Reed's work has been covered and requested throughout the arts "underground" and the major media as well, including ABC Television, The Discovery Channel, MTV, Disney, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The L. A. Weekly, The Chicago Tribune, The Music, Wired Magazine, Option, Billboard, Time Out, Stereophile, The Smithsonian, The ReR Quarterly, Sound on Sound, Computers & Music, Japan's Sound and Recording, and many others. Reed's twenty-article series "Circuit-Bending and Living Instruments" is now being published and translated around the world. Along with many private acquisitions, Reed's work has found its way into the NYC Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim and the Whitney permanent collections as well as numerous other public galleries worldwide.
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