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Please have a look at my ongoing art and physics project, The Trouble with Oscillation. I am launching this phase of the storyboard as part of this weekend's weewerk exhibition in Toronto (with Rebecca Diederichs, Gordon Hicks and Corinna Ghaznavi). Please have a browse through the story and leave your trace (ie: make comments, post links). If you are in Toronto, come down and see the show.
Many thanks to everyone on Digital Media Tree, Joe, Kristin, Mark,Tom, and other posters to this blog who have been helping me shape the project since November. |
How'd the show go? Did they have a computer linked to your project here?
Yup we got the internet connection up and running and it worked out well (many many thanks to Jeffrey for helping me set up the files on my hard drive for the opening night, when we couldn't get online yet). We had 4 main elements to the show: Gordon Hick's elegant, spiralled, sculptural 'equations' , Rebecca Diederichs' probing (lovely, though I know that's not the point) riff on contact prints with fractals, slices and inversions, my online story on the laptop w/accompanying abstract video footage on nearby monitor, and our collaborative work, the black box project. This was a really fun and (for us) frustrating element at the show, a separate (even tinier) room that we three could not enter. We've been passing, modifying and documenting objects between us for months, and plan to continue the process for about a year (when we will have more developed work and a bigger show mounted and hopefully touring around a bit). The room contained the objects in their present state, and each of our various methods of documentation. Our curator/collaborator Corinna Ghaznavi gathered the material and set it up for display. Viewers in the space had to sign a non-disclosure waiver before entering to ensure that they wouldn't blurt out what they saw to us and thereby contaminate the experiment.
It's been an intense, exciting weekend immersed in this project. I find the material endlessly interesting, which is sort of weird*, but great. We've been meeting, talking and researching for quite awhile, and it was great to see our work together for the first time. We each work very differently, but there is a good synergy. For a control freak like me, showing work in progress was challenging, but stimulating, and I think I can speak for all four of us when I say we are feeling pretty pumped and inspired for the next phases of the project. A lot of the good feeling has to do with the intelligence and generosity of artist and weewerk host Germaine Koh, who let us into her exhibition schedule and got us talking to each other in-depth with her low-key, nail-on-the-head questions.
*I am ever suspicious of my lay-person's enthusiasm for quantum physics ... more on this soon.
This is _so_ great, to get a description of it. Thanks!
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Many thanks to everyone on Digital Media Tree, Joe, Kristin, Mark,Tom, and other posters to this blog who have been helping me shape the project since November.
- sally mckay 5-07-2004 12:21 am
How'd the show go? Did they have a computer linked to your project here?
- tom moody 5-10-2004 9:06 am
Yup we got the internet connection up and running and it worked out well (many many thanks to Jeffrey for helping me set up the files on my hard drive for the opening night, when we couldn't get online yet). We had 4 main elements to the show: Gordon Hick's elegant, spiralled, sculptural 'equations' , Rebecca Diederichs' probing (lovely, though I know that's not the point) riff on contact prints with fractals, slices and inversions, my online story on the laptop w/accompanying abstract video footage on nearby monitor, and our collaborative work, the black box project. This was a really fun and (for us) frustrating element at the show, a separate (even tinier) room that we three could not enter. We've been passing, modifying and documenting objects between us for months, and plan to continue the process for about a year (when we will have more developed work and a bigger show mounted and hopefully touring around a bit). The room contained the objects in their present state, and each of our various methods of documentation. Our curator/collaborator Corinna Ghaznavi gathered the material and set it up for display. Viewers in the space had to sign a non-disclosure waiver before entering to ensure that they wouldn't blurt out what they saw to us and thereby contaminate the experiment.
It's been an intense, exciting weekend immersed in this project. I find the material endlessly interesting, which is sort of weird*, but great. We've been meeting, talking and researching for quite awhile, and it was great to see our work together for the first time. We each work very differently, but there is a good synergy. For a control freak like me, showing work in progress was challenging, but stimulating, and I think I can speak for all four of us when I say we are feeling pretty pumped and inspired for the next phases of the project. A lot of the good feeling has to do with the intelligence and generosity of artist and weewerk host Germaine Koh, who let us into her exhibition schedule and got us talking to each other in-depth with her low-key, nail-on-the-head questions.
*I am ever suspicious of my lay-person's enthusiasm for quantum physics ... more on this soon.
- sally mckay 5-10-2004 9:40 am
This is _so_ great, to get a description of it. Thanks!
- Jean (guest) 5-10-2004 8:11 pm