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| River Crossing, Minimal Bridge, 2008-9 |
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Crossing the Rio Grande outside of Taos, New Mexico using the least amount of bridge possible.
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Wave, 2007-8 |
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Site-specific commissioned installation that translates highway traffic into an undulating wooden fabric. The piece began by imagining the traffic from the point of view of the highway and grew to wonder how the conservation of energy principle plays out in a section of commuter traffic.
maple, steel, custom electronics, pneumatic system
13' x 6' x 28"
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| Antigravity: Quantum Attempt, 2008 |
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The documentation of an attempt to eliminate gravity by throwing a flexible cube sculpture into the air and sequencing the moments when gravity turns off and back on. This version combines multiple moments at once, trying to generate a fuller image of the flexible cube shape. |
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Antigravity: Staccato Attempt, 2008 |
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The documentation of an attempt to eliminate gravity by throwing a flexible cube sculpture into the air and sequencing the moments when gravity turns off and back on. The staccato version slows the moments down into single frames, to analyze exactly how gravity turns back on and starts to affect the flexible cube. |
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| Falling Cube, 2008 |
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A wood and felt cube rises and falls over a thirteen minute cycle, slow enough to animate the minute changes in the grid-like cube and show the effects of gravity. The actual mechanism that animates the rise and fall is hidden above the gallery ceiling.
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| The
Unemptiness of Space, 2006-7 |
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Stop-motion animation of a wood-and-steel fabric.
Poplar wood, steel.
32' x 7.5' x 1"
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The
Exhale System, 2003-5 |
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A system of twenty bicycle inner tubes, woven over steel frames, that
inflates and deflates, breathing like an industrial respiratory
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Second Generation of Sad Memories Searching for Their Father,
2004-5 |
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Steel, zip-ties, motor, leds, custom electronics.
27" x 24" x 10"
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night, a beetle looked more like a machine. 2004 |
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Steel, nylon, about 4,600 zip-ties, motor, fluorescent lights, electronics.
39" x 39" x 13" |
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| Watching
a Machine Die Slowly, 2004-5 |
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A system of two pieces, one that consists of a motor that turns axles
with leds hidden inside the pistons, creating a moving light
field. The other consists of two tanks, an upper tank and a lower
tank, and a button controls a water pump that pumps water from
the lower tank to the upper tank. Since the current for the light
field travels through the upper tank, when the viewer pushes
the button, it adds water to the upper tank and activates the
light field. But as the water drains back down to the lower tank,
it reduces the current to the light field, causing the light
field machine to "die slowly" eliciting odd empathy from the
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still image of "Watching.."
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Xiphoid Process,
2002 |
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bicycle forks, motion sensor, sewing machine motor, plumbing, light
bulb, grease
33" x 15" x 36"
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A motion sensor activated motor jumps to life when a viewer approaches,
opening and closing the two sides of the ribcage, looking simultaneously
like breathing and chewing. ‘The Xiphoid Process”’ is
almost entirely constructed of recycled materials, and in doing so,
covers the spectrum of organically dead to artificially living.” |
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| Abandoned
House,
2002 |
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Wood from two abandoned houses, ceiling fan motor, metal.
48" x 57" x 14"
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A ceiling fan motor spins the window until the drive belt slips then
the window coasts to a stop, gently finds equilibrium. The window
latch in motion emits the ghostly sound of footsteps.” |
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