Velociplosion (A Muybridge Influenced Spatial Event) as part of Dlectricity 2012

This exercise intends to reverse engineer a mechanical phenomenon into a set of sculptural ‘frames’ across 100 feet of installation space. By constructing a series of identical objects in linear space, modifying each successive object slightly, and successively illuminating each object with a brief but powerful strobe, we may intimate Muybridge cell-motion with tangible, three dimensional objects. As subject matter a form has been selected that is both easily manipulated and commonplace to the urban vernacular- a street bicycle. This is animated stop motion mechanics in tangible space. Action as depicted in Manga. An over-sized flipbook. The continued re-analogization of digital white noise into spatial events by exploding.

Press Love:

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012121005083

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20121004/ENT01/210040309

Artifacts of Process (An Interlude)

In the midst of public art installation season we take pause to consider more minute temporary structures- those between production and result and which are unique results of process. These intermediate typologies surface from manufacturing methods based on mechanical tendencies, production workflow, and material optimizations, manifested as clusters, trees, tessellations, stacks, overlaps, negatives, etc. Ultimately these forms are destroyed or shedded to yield the targeted product, and are then recirculated back into the production- Hence, the final objects have both the memory and physical materiality of these intermediate forms which responsive of input, informative of output, but aesthetically unique from both.

  

(Above- "Lost Wax")