{"id":950,"date":"2013-03-04T11:31:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T19:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/ajna-spine\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T23:00:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T07:00:58","slug":"ajna-spine","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/ajna-spine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajna Spine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Stub\">STUB article<\/a>\u00a0please make edits and adjustments as suggested on Wikipedia to make it more robust.\u00a0 Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Ajna Spine 222<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Michael Rees<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Michael is a an artist who has harnessed the power of digital tools to create a wide range of sculptures, installations, animations and interactive pieces. Michael has exhibited in a range of venues domestically and internationally including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Source :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spalterdigitalartcollection.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/michael-rees-sculpture-digital-master.html\">http:\/\/spalterdigitalartcollection.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/michael-rees-sculpture-digital-master.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ajs222.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ajs222.gif\" style=\"width:209px;height:468px;\" \/>Sculptor Michael Rees (b. 1958) uses rapid prototyping to create objects that borrow from medical anatomy for an exploration of what he refers to as &#8216;spiritual\/psychological anatomy&#8217;. In Rees&#8217;s Anja Spine series, anatomical elements and organic forms, such as a spine with ears protruding from it, are woven into complex sculptural structures, which raise questions about the scientific validation of a sensuality that transcends the known structure of the body. Rees uses science and its imagery as a way of weaving systems, both analytical and intuitive. &#8216;Anja&#8217; is the Hindu term for the sixth of the Chakras, energy centers that are openings for life energy and vitalize the physical body to bring about the development of our self-consciousness. The word &#8216;Anja&#8217; means &#8216;command&#8217;, in the sense of spiritual guidance and, while still part of embodied existence, is associated with the most subtle elements.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Source :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newmedia.opinionware.net\/docs\/114text_PaulCh1.pdf\">http:\/\/newmedia.opinionware.net\/docs\/114text_PaulCh1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":4578,"template":"","artist":[43],"streams":[14],"keywords":[4383,4382,4380,4381],"decade":[],"media":[],"class_list":["post-950","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist-michael-rees","streams-bodies-surrogates-emergent-systems","keywords-4383","keywords-ajna-spine","keywords-michael-rees","keywords-spine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artwork"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4585,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/950\/revisions\/4585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"streams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/streams?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keywords?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}