Relational Art is an emerging movement in art identified by Nicolas Bourriaud, a French philosopher, who recognized a growing number of contemporary artists used performative and interactive techniques that rely on the responses of others: pedestrians, shoppers, browsers—the casual observer-turned-participant. As an art critic, Bourriaud has reviewed many internationally renowned exhibitions and performances. Over the course of writing editorials for the French magazine Documents sur l’Art, Bourriaud came to term what he was seeing—more accurately, experiencing—as a movement in Relational Art. Bringing together his many essays on the subject of these artists and their activities, Nicolas Bourriaud, in 1998, launched his theory and book entitled Relational Aesthetics. While art critics, theoreticians, and historians have argued whether Nicolas Bourriaud was accurate in naming what he was seeing as a new movement—or, even a movement at all—artists have been busy carrying out their relational activities.

Bourriaud observed something different in the art practices of today. Artists across all disciplines were collapsing the distance between their art form and the average citizen. No longer were actors up on stages telling stories at people. Now, the stage was gone and the actor was merging into the general public and the “story” was theirs to tell. The artist no longer clung to making objects that were set before an adoring gallery visitor, instead the artist merged into a cyber world prompting an anonymous, global public to interact through telepresence. Now, musicians are innovators, designing and creating new musical instruments, software and compositions that prompt the random passerby to interact, conduct and perform a musical piece that is uniquely their own. While artists have long since challenged the constrictions of museums, stages, and performance halls, Bourriaud observed a significant turn in context and meaning.

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Concept and Definition

“String theory is a model of fundamental physics, whose building blocks are one-dimensional extended objects called strings, rather than the zero-dimensional point particles that form the basis for the standard model of particle physics. The phrase is often used as shorthand for superstring theory, as well as related theories such as M-theory. By replacing the point-like particles with strings, an apparently consistent quantum theory of gravity emerges. Moreover, it may be possible to “unify” the known natural forces (gravitational, electromagnetic, weak nuclear and strong nuclear) by describing them with the same set of equations, as described in the theory of everything.

The Realization

The String Theory Series was constructed in three parts:

1. The images were printed as a deck of cards, each card measuring two and a half by five inches with a total of 27 cards; contained within a white envelop , wrapped with a string.