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TIBI CHELCEA - F.F.
The “Circuit Floorplan” series is inspired by common symbols from electronic design. The schematic and the layout design are the two main stages in electronic board design. In the schematic stage, the circuit is drawn and verified for electrical correctness; in the layout stage, the circuit is laid out as a circuit board and verified for mechanical correctness. “Floorplaning” is a stage in between these two, where a drawing is created to indicate general areas where blocks of circuitry are to be placed on the board, thus bridging the gap between the schematic drawing and the physical layout. In this series, I have used the idea of floorplan drawings as a springboard to explore the graphic potential of electronic symbols.
This series ‘Faulty Electrodes’ is repurposing faulty/misprinted electronics teaching materials as the basis for paintings. These works are painted on carbon paper (a slightly conductive paper) used in teaching college grade students to measure voltage gradients; the silvery areas are screenprinted metallic electrodesto which electric currents are applied in order to create these voltaic gradients.However, these particular pieces of paper were misprinted. Thus, these works, taking theirtitles from these faulty printed electrodes, allude to the correctness (or not) of our electronic tools.
Tibi Chelcea takes elements and processes of traditional art disciplines, such as printmaking and drawing, and combines them with parts and operations of digital technologies. His work demonstrates unexpected correlations between old and new technologies, and issues of consumption, serial design, automated vs labor-intensive processes, are brought to the fore. His works have been exhibited throughout the United States (New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Iowa, and other states) as well as Mexico, Egypt and Brazil, and has received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and an Iowa Artist Fellowship. He was born in Romania and came to the United States to pursue a PhD in Computer Science. He has received several awards, fellowships, and patents in the field of electronic and digital design, which continues to be a major source of inspiration for his art.