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Sarah Attwood
Fragment Reader
Wall mounted - 25"w x 17"h x 3.5"d
The Fragment Reader is a collection of abandoned answering machine tapes found in thrift stores. The tapes have been uncoiled and stretched onto a mahogany frame, with their last, old messages still intact. Participants touch a custom-built audio-pen to the tapes and run it forwards and backwards to hear snippets of voices scheduling, gossiping and joking from the void of the forgotten past.
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Ranjit Bhatnagar
Sonnets from the Portugese
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Paul Catanese
Misplaced Reliquary
Commissioned in 2004 by Rhizome.org, Misplaced Reliquary is a handheld
curiosity cabinet containing the holy relics collected by an eccentric
curator. The relics are contained within a virtual repository taking the
form of a gameboy advance ROM that can be "played" online and/or downloaded
to any gameboy advance (with the correct transfer hardware). In addition to
the online aspects of this work, a physical installation also exists
consisting of a GBA with the reliquary preloaded onto it as well as a
leather-bound book containing the field notes of the curator of the
reliquary.
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Ben Chang
DataGhost Defragmenter 2008
software
The DataGhost Defragmenter is a piece of software-art masquerading as a piece of actual software. A "defragmenter" is a disk utility that optimizes and cleans hard drives by removing and compacting the dead space left on the drive when files are deleted. Disks that have not been defragmented can easily become filled with small pieces of files that were supposedly deleted; these fragments can remain even after the entire drive is erased. These data fragments are like something we try hard to erase and forget but that keeps coming back, like a memory that won't stay repressed.
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Kim Collmer
Berlin Skin
(4min video animation)
Berlin Skin creates the aura of a city through textures and motion. Animating the layers of a city, memory is encoded into its walls as the continual patter of urban energy pushes us forward in time. The projected animation is meant to create a physical connection between the viewer and Berlin, cloaking them in the "skin" of another location.
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Chris Harrison
Visualizing the Bible
Few books can claim to have been as thoroughly analyzed as the Bible. For millennia, people from several major religions have poured over the text, extracting meaning and guidance from its pages. Using special software, it is possible to extract large quantities of simple information very rapidly. By collapsing information found on thousands of pages of text into a visual overview, we can expose interesting, even beautiful patterns, and relationships that might otherwise get lost.
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Kelly Kirshtner
The watch, the escapement, and the marginal sea
(6min video installation)
This installation presents a story of virtual presences and inundation: of vision saturated by the desire to see, and by almost seeing; of an immersion of being into an arbitrary flow of time and space; and of currents between partial spaces and routes of escape.
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Joseph Kohnke
Hollow
With Hollow, I wanted to capture the sound and feeling of having an asthma
attack.The sound within the body during an attack can be deafening, from the wheeze in
the chest to the high-pitched ringing in the ears. With this internal noise is
also an overwhelming sense of aloneness, as the battle to breath is your own
and one which no one can help you with. When the attack passes and the internal
cacophony dies down, a sense of calm and wellbeing comes over you, as you
realize that you have escaped death one more time. With this piece, I wanted
to simultaneously convey this sense of loneliness and relief.
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Jesse Kriss
Dead Air, Live
Dead Air, Live turns the local radio signals into an interactive (and
indeterminate) composition.
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David Parker
Escape Strategy No. 1,4,5,8
A suburban malcontent longs for an elsewhere, and pursues various schemes to attain that goal. But how far can his dreams and longings take him?
Untitled (Key)
A work about the tension between hope and despair, belief and doubt. Even if you could reach what you
believe to be the solution, would it solve the problem? Or is it enough to envision it there and live
in the glow of its promise?
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Silvia Ruzanka
Ginger Minus Fred
The late Ann Richards, former governor of Texas, was famous for saying
"Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, only backwards and in high heels."
In Ginger Minus Fred, Fred Astaire is erased from a dance sequence with Ginger Rogers.
The results are unsettling and hypnotic as she dips, bends and contorts around her non-existent dance partner
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Andrew Sempere
(curator)
Bowl of Oceans
Meditations on Burst Philosophy.
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Leslie Sharpe
SGPaths: SG7777x4/
Ghosts for Cellphones: 10 captures
I am haunted. Haunted by tales of electronically-charged change. Haunted by promises of formlessness, disguise, hidden identity. I can't shake the longing to 'beam up,' to pass through time and form, to function like a charged-up device without a shell.
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