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Metropolis: Some of Chambers' first work [1998 - 1999] withMetropolis and other images experimenting with symmetry/pattern asan artform. Pattern relies upon three characteristics: a unit, repetition,and a system of organization. Symmetry is a fundamental organizingprinciple in nature and in culture. The analysis of symmetry allows forunderstanding the organization of a pattern, and provides a means fordetermining both invariance and change. Metropolis and other imageswere exhibited at online galleries such as the Art Bin Gallery, DigitalArt Museum and PhotoForum Gallery.>>

GEO: One of Chambers' earlier works for print with new mediacomponents utilizing Fabio Ciucci's Anfy applets. Fabio says, "Niceapplication of my applets. I majored at the Institute of the Arts here inLucca, Italy. After all, the Anfy applets are meant to be art, mostly."Geo and its new media components are abstract representations ofEarth's geography/climate through an applet experimentationprocess. Geo was exhibited as a part of the 2001 IDAA exhibition atNoosa Regional Gallery, Australia.>>

Blue Sky: Chambers put this work together based on hisexperimentation with the pixel [Pixelscape], Traditional Africansymbolism and appropriation of his photodocumentary project[Southwest of Rusape: The Mucharambeyi Connection] that he made inZimbabwe, Africa. This appropriation or borrowing/presentation ofimages in ways that offer the viewer new perspectives and/or valuesassociated with them is the essence of Blue Sky as well as an exercisein Web mechanics.>>

Toe Totem: Chambers put this work together as scanner art, a play onthe word, toe [part of the anatomy scanned] and a study of the totemas a tribute to the Native peoples who made/make totems as symbolsthat that each Native family, or clan, adopts. This image was exhibitedas a part of Glass Membrane: Scanner to Screen (group show), DigitalStudio, UCR/California Museum of Photography, Los Angeles,California, U.S.A. (2002).>>

Chinese Character Studies: Chambers' sensitization to the Chineselanguage [characters] led him to this study utilizing various Chinesecharacters within a simple design context. He views the characters notas a language, but as objects/subjects within their translatedenvironment. These images and Flash versions were presented as apart of the Digital/New Media Art Seminar at Zhaoqing University,Zhaoqing China, 2005. Brush up on your Chinese to be able tounderstand these images.>>

Pixelscapes: Chambers has been working with the pixel since 2001,and he's currently involved with the fifth generation of images asMinimal Art. With Minimalism, no attempt is made to represent anoutside reality, and the viewer responds to only what is in front of

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him. With all of the complexities and myriad approaches to art that thecurrent Digital Revolution offers, Chambers says, "There's no need tolook any further than the pixel because it doesn't pretend to beanything else other than truth." Pixelscapes exhibited at numerousvenues, worldwide.>>

My Dear Malevich: Chambers found these Pixelscapes ... as a homage... within a photo of Kasimir Malevich [Ukranian-born artist, 1878-1935] via magnification, filter treatment [halftone] and isolation ofthe pixel(s) in Photoshop. Malevich founded the art movement,Suprematism in Moscow, 1913 as a parallel to Constructivism.Suprematism ["supremacy of forms"] is a study in abstractionconceived in itself ... non-objective and not related to anything exceptgeometric shapes and colors ... and a precursor to Minimalism.Exhibited at Zhaoqing University [China] and Novosibirsk State ArtMuseum [Russia], 2007. Buy this book. >>

Another China: Chambers uses appropriation [borrowing/presentationof images in ways that offer the viewer new perspectives and/orvalues associated with them] again of his photodocumentary series,Widescreen China, by combining three images via RGB software andutilizing gradient filters. China becomes fantastical and as a foreigner[outsider] for almost three years in this country, Chambers projectspersonal feelings of delight, awe, confusion and frustration - at thesame time.>>

Soft Portraits: Chambers takes a look at self-portraiture as anincorporation of various graphics software programs to affirm e-technology's overriding presence in today's society. And in a mixed-media sense, he contrasts photographic image(s) with the text anddesign of the software to make the point that the product (image(s))and the tool (software) are one and the same - coexistent as a part ofthe creative process.>>

Tom Series: Chambers utilizes the self-portrait to project his lifeexperiences. The portrait remains constant with the experience[situation] indicated as a change or flux in the image. It is not only anartwork about Chambers' life ... biography [visual/textual] ... but alsoa reference tool ... a study of history through his existence. A part ofthis series was included [instructor invitation] in the SELF/SOULStudent Exhibition, Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing, GuangdongProvince, China (2006). Buy this book. >>

Buddha Earth: Chambers made this work for Common Ground ... atouring art exhibition which premiered in Beijing, China at the HuanTie Art Museum in November 2008, and now continues in NorthAmerica and Europe in 2010. A new Common Ground exhibition will beproduced in London 2012 to coincide with the Summer Olympic gamesin London. It's a corporate sponsored, brand extension series ofevents that generates media coverage through artist and celebrityparticipation, with visibility on television, print media and on the Web.Through this visibility and art sales, Common Ground raises

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awareness and funds for environmental stewardship projects. >>

Just Words: Chambers utilizes portraits of Native Americans from theEdward Curtis Collection at The Library of Congress. The title of theproject is a play on the "White man's" broken promises, and the wordsseen as a part of the art reflect Tom R. Chambers' emotional states orreactions to the mistreatment and near annihilation of the indigenouspopulation by his Anglo Saxon Ancestors. He hopes to begin to findclosure for his haunted existence with this attempt as a politicalstatement through the Arts.. >>