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Works from 2007

Extra-Sensory Wave Device

Installation, 37' x 37', 2007. Live closed-circuit video projection, infrasonic microphone, geophones, novelty wave-machine, satellite dish, salt, steel, concrete.

The idea that we are products of a dynamic coupling with our surroundings drives this work. The possibility that we may be influenced or affected in subtle, even imperceptible, conditions by our ambient environments would require reassessing the boundaries of internal and external experience. In this piece the viewer is immersed in a timeless (science) fiction with explicit references to a natural environment mediated and/or interpreted by the technological. By transposing stimuli that we are not consciously aware of into the visual experience, these connections are explored through time, place, technology and consciousness.

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When visitors move about the space, their presence alters and at times disrupts the video projection.

Listening In At 1 R.P.M.

Kinetic sound sculpture, tower 5', arms 6' span, case 22" x 20", 2007. Piezoelectric sensors, electronics, steel, motor, case.

Piezoelectric sensors "read" the textured gallery wall and translate its imperfections into sound. The result: a repetitive composition of one-minute duration. This work translates the latent, randomized information existing in the wall surface as if it were Braille, highlighting the distinctions between noise and information, and translating the tactile into the auditory. The work was repositioned several times over the course of the exhibition.

Listen:

Location One, 1 min.
Location Two, 1 min.
Location Three, 1 min.
Location Four, 1 min.
Location Five, 1 min.

Recorded April 13 - May 4, 2007 at R.G. Miller gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.