Karen Kuslansky

LEFTRIGHTLEFT, digital illustration, 2005

Karen Kuslansky

received a Bachelors of Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts, NYC in computer art
and computer related media. In 2000, her video Cromagnonmus was juried and selected
for the 8th Annual NY Digital Salon. She was the only undergraduate student to participate.
Karen has worked in the field of new media for eight years and is represented by pod gallery in NYC.

"From the ocean of primitive thought to the plains of virtual existence, where
has the human mind taken us? And has this journey existed all along?
We are indeed puzzles that need to be solved.
My work is a critical investigation of this process."

Cromagnonmus is the culmination of random organization, blueprint encoding, and defragmentation.
These themes can be noted as particularly "digital". This piece reveals the interconnectedness
of man and machine through the organization of language - the intimate process of the human psyche
and how this process is perhaps a permeable pattern in which some underlying current travels.
Cromagnonmus deals with the notion of the universe as a highly organized machine in which
the human being exists as a posterized variable. It is filtered yet proprtional revealing a surface reality
that is disjointed yet somehow symmetrical. Perhaps it is a play on these two opposing elements.