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Two people stand on either
side of a partition. Grasping a line of red light (LEDs inside flexible
tubing), each viewer sees him/herself joined with the other via
angled mirrors mounted on the far wall. As the red lights slowly
pulse, I hope viewers will be led to consider the connections, both
seen and unseen, that join us with others.
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| Project sponsored by Lightology. Special thanks (again) to Insik Kim. | ||
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Performance with rainbarrel sculpture, printed bookmark handouts, 2007 | ||
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A project for
Art 44.46 public art initiative, curated by Stuart Keeler for
the Lakeview neighborhood in Chicago. Theme: "Sustainability" |
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Lightology, Chicago
This piece also shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago on the "first Friday" of August 5, 2005. |
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| A powerful lamp inside a golden pyramid shines skyward. People are invited to take a bubble-bottle and send bubbles up the shaft of light into the evening sky. I hope that this piece's spirit of fun spurs participants to imaginatively reflect on their own inherent capacities to reach "the great beyond" - whatever that may be. |
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| Special thanks to Greg & Kasia Kay, Chris Horski, and Stan Les. |
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Exhibited: Graduate Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Beverly Arts Center, Chicago; Macalester College, St. Paul, MN; Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; Taehwa River Eco Art Festival, Ulsan, Korea; Seongnam Art Center Museum, Korea
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| Heartbeat monitors give real-time output as glass
bell strikes. One monitor rings one bell, for up to five participants.
The piece remains quiet until activated by visitor contact. video (8MB QuickTime) |
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| Special thanks to Insik Kim,
David & Evelyn Parker, Gabriel
Akagawa, Dmitry Strakovsky,
and Todd Bailey.
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First shown at Undergraduate Exhibition,
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| This installation uses architecture and symbol as a means of inviting questions on the nature of self. A red-edged portal slowly pulses in a darkened space. A viewer sees her ghostly reflection in the frame, thrown on the golden doorway beyond and backed by the black graphite doorway behind her. She thereby apprehends her image in 4 simultaneous contexts: body, energy, gold, and carbon, together drawing an axis of separate yet linked meanings. |  |
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| Each pipe emits rain and rushing water sounds. These tracks quietly fade in and out at random, independently in each pipe, and sometimes there is silence. The visitor can wander among the pipes and become caught up in the evocative sounds. When successful, the piece transports the visitor for a moment to another place altogether. |  |
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| This doorway of solid light compels entry even as it refuses bodily passage. |  |
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A kinetic work addressing doorways accessible only by the mind, and the many meanings of the ground below our feet. |
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| Shown installed at Gallery 2,
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Purpose: By creating an immersive environment for physical and imaginative exploration, we hope to evoke a heightened sense of perception and to propagate contemplation in the participant. Participant experience: Movement transforms physical space and imaginative space. After parting a heavy sheet to enter a dark room (ideally alone), and allowing time for his/her eyes to adjust, the participant encounters a large number of white fabric sheets suspended from above, a layered mass looming in the darkness. This group has a clear border in front of the participant's position, like the edge of a forest. Standing there in the near-dark, he/she is literally faced with the unknown and must make a choice. |
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| If the participant remains outside of
the group of sheets, nothing happens. The fearful may elect to
leave the space altogether. The more trusting may decide that
the situation poses no threat and step into the sheets, at which
point small, diffuse red lights are seen slowly coming on deeper
inside the group and all around the participant. Programmed light
patterns are designed to stimulate curiosity and to draw one deeper
into the space. They pulse on and off in a calm and regular "breathing"
manner, but out of sync with one another--the effect is similar
to being in a field of fireflies, and anxiety melts into comfort
and warmth. The activity continues all around the participant
as long as he/she is in motion; once he/she chooses to leave the
mass of sheets, the light activity gradually grows quiet, until
darkness is complete again. It was an honor & privilege to collaborate on this piece for Yuichiro Nishizawa's Post-Baccalaureate exhibition at SAIC. Special thanks also to Shawn Decker. |
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Public-space installation. Superballs, modified literature dispenser |
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This was a one-time installation in downtown Chicago when literature dispensers were still allowed on streetcorners. It uses the "destabilizing" potential of superballs to introduce a bit of fun into the ultra-staid atmosphere of Chicago's City Hall area. Of course, the piece reads quite differently from the viewpoint of today's "war on terror." |
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| A kinetic sendup of the "respectability"
surrounding the famous (and ubiquitous) English clothing marque. |
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| Special thanks to Dan Miller.
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