1997, acrylic, paper, photocopies, tape, 23 x 21 inches
September 2007
Upcoming Performance at Galapagos
Hard on the heels of "Digital Political Time Lapse," a second Aron Namenwirth-curated event is coming up Oct. 14--an evening of videos and performance at Galapagos in Brooklyn titled "Abstract Horror." Spent some time this weekend thinking about/working on my 15 minute performance. The current plan is to DJ several of my tunes from the laptop, while an accompanying DVD of looping animated GIFs (converted to video) pulses on a projector in stately, hypnotic, obnoxious fashion. Much potential material has appeared on my hard drive since my last event so I'm in the process of culling that--right now I'm figuring thirteen GIFs at about a minute per, edited so each is broken into shorter segments playing at unpredictable intervals. Some of these look dramatic blown up to 740 x 480. Trying to pick songs and images that will read clearly and work reasonably well on any gear or sound system. But I've never "played" at Galapagos before so I don't know how this will look/sound. Feeling much better about this project than I did a week ago.
sketch_a7 notes
A few notes on the previous "sketch"--not really a sketch, more of a finished "internet painting." A photo of a Technics turntable platter-edge is "sampled" and repeated in MSPaint to make an allover pattern. I didn't want to use Photoshop--it was important to struggle with it so it had a rough, patched together quality. There is a lot of extraneous cutting and pasting and blending at the pixel level so the metallic surface would become more organic, like tree bark or reptile skin or something. The "foreground" imagery is two HTML pieces by Chris Ashley that were damaged by being reproduced incorrectly in the Bloglines RSS reader. The red triangle pattern reads like a monogram on a shirt front and could be frames of a breaking or mending heart, depending on whether you read it from top or bottom. The blue pattern was copied, stretched, and pasted several times to make columns in a vague counter-rhythm to the turntable texture.