Statement Shirley Shor 09
Imaginary coordinates and other unknown territories

The animated fields of colors, surfaces, lines, and pixels in my work are in perpetual fluid motion, expanding, merging, collapsing, and reforming with movements and shapes that become metaphors for concepts such as space, border, conflict, language, and the passage of time.
In my practice, I’m interested in representation of ‘potential realities’.

My works begin with a conceptual idea that is first expressed as a set of rules governing an abstract animation of patterns, colors, surfaces, and movements. The rules are then implemented as code in a software program that runs on a personal computer in real-time to generate ever-changing moving images. Each of images flow into the next, in sequences that are never repeated. Once programmed, these animations become projections onto pre-existing or fabricated architectural surfaces. 
I think about space as a dynamic concept that is in constant change. I like to recreate spaces by injecting real-time virtual elements into physical environments and physical objects. The experience is a synthesis between the code and the territory.  

For me, space (or "to make a place") is a political act. To draw a line is to divide; to include and to exclude. In my recent work I'm shifting from the idea of line as a limit, and from the act of transgression to the idea of liquid architecture that consists of lines in motion. In these installations I don't ask to "cross the border" since the border itself is constantly moving.

Real-time is my preferred medium; it is the only way for text-image and the world to become one. Real-time visuals allow me to reclaim the 'lost aura' of the digital production, since every given moment is unique and never self-repetitive.