"apolitical" front window installation by Chad Stayrook
Thursday, January 1, 1970, 12:00 am
“apolitical” by Chad Stayrook
The Mad Genius returns!
Recent San Francisco Art Institute graduate, Chad Stayrock….Staybrook….er, Stayrook takes a break from his new job at Sarah Lawrence college in New York to grace the Valencia Street corridor with his pirated breed of science/art/consumer logic. Sometimes he’s setting off mousetraps with a typewriter in the name of the big bang theory, other times he dons pink bunny ears and just wants to play a little ditty about a piece of string named Ahab that floats out to sea.You just never know what you’re gonna get with this guy.
This installation is one of the curated-in contributions (by ATA Webzine Editor and Gallery Exhibitions Coordinator Kathleen Quillian) to the group show: Order, Measurement and Systems, staged in conjunction with the release of ATA webzine issue #3 (http://www.atasite.org/zine/)
Chad’s work can also be seen (but not dismantled, please!) during the month of November in the 2004 Emerge group exhibition at the Old Mint, sponsored by GenArt.
The Stayrook Equation: governing overall artistic value
(VA + m) / i = PV
thus
(((PV2) Im) Ic) / X = OV
where:
VA = valid argument
m = medium
i = artists intention
PV = proposed artistic value
Im = intensity of the communication/concept as derived from the medium
Ic = intensity of the meaning as derived from the communication/concept
X = audience expectation
OV = overall artistic value
The valid argument plus the medium used, divided by the intention of the artist equals the proposed artistic value of the work. Thus, the proposed artistic value squared and multiplied by the intensity of the communication/concept as derived from the medium, multiplied by the intensity of the meaning as derived from the communication/concept, all divided by the audience expectation equals the overall artistic value of the work.