ERIC KIM

HELLO HAPTIC. by Cindy Nguyen

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papers flurry
ideas hurry
the warmth of freshly pressed thoughts
on eggshell leaves.

a touch of the keys
euphoric release
of fragments laced to prose.

published vulnerability
a flicker of humanity.

Sounds by

  • Hanoi, the city
  • Giraffage – “Slo”
  • Cindy Nguyen in a quiet Saigon cafe
  • Google Vocaloids of freestyle rap by Dave Paulson

MISSION STATEMENT

HAPTIC PRESS was built from the ground-up by Cindy Nguyen. In her words:

“My dream is to build a community of playing, making, and sharing. I do not know what to call this, but for the time being let’s say it’s an experimental playground. Not quite a collective, gallery, or industry, but just a space to “fux wit it.” Come and leave as you please. Make this your own space.” – Cindy Nguyen

Personally, I am proud of Cindy — for having the courage, confidence, and the guts to build HAPTIC. To disregard bullshit ‘classifications’ of art. To create HAPTIC PRESS as the anti-‘ART’ — a lower-case ‘a’ in art — to make art for all, to make art for the people.

To make art that encourages everyone to make art. A non-elitist place; rather, an open democratic playground of creating, sharing, and playing.

HAPTIC ARTISTS

heART by Annette Kim

Cindy Nguyen

Eric Kim

Chu Viet Ha

Annette Kim

HAPTIC EXHIBITION

Ephemeral glance

Wind lingers on sweeping shore

a coy morning dance.

EXHIBITION 1: TO CLASSIFY

Genealogical distribution of the arts and sciences’ by Chrétien Frederic Guillaume Roth from Encyclopédie (1780) by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert

Our inaugural exhibition plays with the fantasy of classification.
Classification as control, as order, as comfort.


Photo-Cubism by Eric Kim

semi-abstract, low-poly, graphic design, not picasso, not cubism, matisse-esque, not photography, what’s the point? why? Eric Kim needs to stop diverting from street photography. Eric Kim is addicted to drugs.

METADATA

IMAGE

Graphic design
Photoshop
Layers
Vector
App
Algorithm
Computer generated design
Artificial Intelligence
What is human?
Photography
Black and white
Abstract
Eric Kim
Portrait
Selfie
Mixed media
Conceptual portraiture
Postmodernist Picasso
Post-post Picassso
Post-post process
Experimental
Drugs
Linné’s method for classification of plants in Classes Plantarum 1738, “Figurative System of organisation of human knowledge” from Diderot’s Encyclopédie ca 1751.

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