Charlie G. Hachadourian's Informational Hollows: “Art Is a Light Thing, Yet You're Making It Way Too Heavy”

Abstract This article is dedicated to the Armenian-American artist Charlie G. Hachadourian. The author guides the reader to the idea that conceptual sculpture—and the conceptualization of art in general—is, among other factors, shaped by the transformations occurring in the domains of science and technology. By distancing itself from representational practices under the influence of the advancements, art evolves into a discursive practice, a means of communication, which normalizes and embeds in the social reality the same scientific and technological context it has been fueled by, while simultaneously normalizing the fragmentations, migrations, hybridizations, and assimilations that occur within cultural, political, and professional identities. And this, in turn, enables a novel reproduction of human and social life.