Joseph
Scheer is a Professor of Print Media and Co-Director/Founder of the Institute
for Electronic Arts at the School of Art and Design, Alfred University, New
York. His current works, which span print media, video and web based projects,
use technology to re-examine nature through interpretive collecting and visual
recording. His most recent work has been exhibited at The Brooklyn Museum of
Art, New York, the National Museum of China, Beijing, and The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois. A recent show that traveled to four major museums in
Sweden was comprised of 100 large format prints. He has published two books
about his work: Night Visions, the Secret
Designs of Moths and Night Flyers.
His work has been written about in over 120 books and periodicals including: National Geographic, five articles in
the New York Times, Flaunt, ArtNews, ArtForum, Science, Nature, Seed, Forbes, US Air Attaché, American Photo, DER SPIEGEL, The Chronicle
for Higher Education and The Ganzfield. He was recently
Fulbright-Garcia Robles Research Scholar in Sonora Mexico.
Joseph Scheer
阿尔弗雷德电子艺术研究院创始人之一
， 数码版画专业主任、教授
Joseph Scheer
版画教授，阿尔弗雷德电子艺术研究院创始人之一，他的作品跨越视频、版画、网
页。他通过有目的收集和视觉上的记录用科技来重新审视自然。他近期作品曾在布鲁克林美术
馆、中国美术馆、芝加哥费尔得博物馆。他最近在瑞典4个美术馆巡回展出他近期100件大尺寸数
码版画。Joseph Scheer
近期出版了2本画册：《黑夜中的视觉，蛾子身上图案的秘密》、《夜间
飞虫》。关于他的作品的文章曾在120多种出版物中登载，其中包括《国家地理杂志》、《纽约
时报》、《艺术新闻》、《科学》、《艺术造型》《美国摄影》。
数码扫描技术为我们提供了高精密度观察昆虫的手段，这种手段提供了一个超真实的效果，可以
让我们看到平常肉眼看不到的昆虫的造型结构。这些蛾子的图像是用大幅彩色喷绘机印制在厚的
水彩纸上。他基于蛾子不同种类和它们背后丰富的神话来选择、研究和创作。这些昆虫视觉上不
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| Signing prints in Beijing, China 2007 |
I have called the body of work that I have done over the
past decade “Imaging Biodiversity” and it is about seeing the things that live
on our planet in a particular intense way. Using extreme resolution, focus and
enlargements through scanning and HD Video, have become critical elements of my
working process. Recently I spent fourteen months in Sonora Mexico as A
Fulbright Garcia Robles research Scholar. Having the ability to work in
different cultures and geographies with new plants and animals has developed
profound changes in my understanding of the world around us. Being from
somewhere else I noticed details in things that are often overlooked or even
considered mundane. By handling them in the passionate way, it has brought
about a keen interest from the people around me who I have had a pleasure to
work with. Also learning their way of seeing and understanding things from their
perspective has been a great benefit to me as well and has broadened the entire
experience that for always be an inseparable part of my being.
Joseph Scheer的作品既充满幻觉又使人升华，使人近距离观察这些昆虫
的同时又为这些昆虫蒙上了文化的色彩，既优美又很神奇。Scheer的版
画中炫艳的图像不可思议的超大尺寸，增加了这种感触。
Scheer在构图和形象的选择上综合昆虫的系谱和它们在社会中的意义，
使他的作品置于科学与艺术之间。很明显，Scheer延续了自然探测家的
传统：实地考察、扑捉样本、标号、陈列，可是他的艺术创作远远超
出仅仅将实物压在玻璃底下，他迫使我们去关注那些见不到的和视而
不见的，进而使实物变得清晰可见，并且给人一种崇高感。如果没有
艺术和科学的帮助，我们是很难去了解我们生存的这个世界，Scheer的
作品深刻的揭示：观察的过程从本质上来说是一种转变的过程。
Dr. Lisa Fischman 亚利桑那大学美术馆策展人
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