GABRIEL DUNNE
GABRIEL DUNNE’s work represents his continuous investigations of visual, audible, and physical frequencies of natural and technological perceptual and imperceptible realities. His process is based on sound, space, still and moving visual image, architecture, installation, sculpture, and utilizes custom software and hardware systems and performance tools. He has show and performed at galleries and museums across the world, including NYMoMA, SIGGRAPH, Barcelona Festival Sonar, Interferenze Italia, and numerous publications. He is a San Francisco native.
Claves Angelicæ, 2018
Ink pen drawing made by plotter machine on Bristol paper
11 unique sigils
Size: 138 x 18 cm
Exhibited at “Perfect and Priceless” show, Zürich, Kate Vass Galerie, 2018-2019
Description:
Claves Angelicæ is a seven-step process to guide one through the process of securely constructing a Word with an ‘Alphabet of Desire.’ This Alphabet of Desire is a mediation with one’s own libidinal framework. Magic has many aspects, but it primarily acts as a dramatized system of psychology. It is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with one’s Will. A magical spell is quite literally the spelling out of a Word. Once the Word is constructed within oneself it is set in motion by bringing it forth into grammar and sound. When completed one must seal it and cast it out into the Ethereum network.
The seven-step process is designed to collect and transmute the participants’ input data into an encrypted message. For the participant to cast their Word they must transmit Ether to a preselected set of charities. Once the spell has been cast and verified by the consensus pool, the transaction signature’s hash is returned, parsed, and passed into a sigil generating algorithm. The participant receives an inked paper talisman authored by a mechanical plotter drawing machine as a tokenized sigil of their spell.