grid:current 2008

grid:current

2008

grid:current 2008

grid:current

2008

gridworks circa 2008

gridworks circa 2008

Multiple Screen Projection Reminder

Note To Self:
experiment more with projection again!!!!!
(*disclaimer: I usually don't post like this, sorry)

Just saw a really great article about UW Milwaukee's Arts+Tech night at Milwaukee Journal Sentinal. Its a fun event that I used to go to every semester while I was in Milwaukee. Unfortunately, I never got a chance to take part in one. Its a great chance to see what people are up to in the program and its usually somewhere between gallery and demo.

At the end of the article linked above, I noticed an image of a multiple screen projection. This is what I spent my last year of grad school working on. So I kinda had something very similar in Milwaukee in 2008 but nobody really cared about it at all then... our show didn't get a mention anywhere in Milwaukee press.

I'll post the images below for comparison purposes only - its a really great concept and I want to do more with it sometime. I'd trace it back to documentation of Bill Viola's "The Veiling" - that's how I got interested in thin fabric screens. But I was also interested in making projection become physical planes of a sphere shape - go figure. I haven't met or talked to the artist in Milwaukee - Yoko Hattori, so I can't say what the work is about other than that it looks somewhat narrative. Regardless... high five on getting some positive attention up in there!!!

Yoko Hattori


my project "Grid:Current"

"Getting Closer" Opening at Fe Gallery in Pittsburgh

Just got back from the opening! The show looks great... I wish I could have stayed longer, but you know how it is. Thanks Lindsay Howard for making it happen. Thanks Fe Gallery for doing it up! Sorry for the phone camera quality pix - they def don't do the show justice... its pretty mind blowing IRL.

gridworks exhibition

Here's some photos from my opening yesterday:

gridworks exhibition installation

Installing this week for my show at Penn State Altoona. Show opens on Thursday - and I'm really happy with how everything is turning out. Here's a sneak peak:

Installation Test - Projection+TiledPrint

Tried something different today... projecting an animated gif website on top of a tiled digital print with similar content

grid-walkrotate

"grid-walkrotate" is an animated video originally created for large format projection and gallery installation. I'll post some sample images below from its installation at the Eclipse Gallery in Algoma, WI. The animation incorporates ASCII drawings, Eadweard Muybridge photographs, and digital animation.

The work can be viewed in a smaller web-based format here:
http://www.master-list2000.com/abillmiller/grid-portraits/grid-walkrotate.html


    

Ethereal Views at The Eclipse Gallery

Some pics from my installation this past weekend at The Eclipse Gallery in Algoma, WI. I installed two small monitors and a projection. The work shown is the sweet of animated gifs I posted here a week or so ago ( 1, 2, 3 ). These are from what I shot, and you can see more on the gallery's flickr. The show is up until March so if you're in Northern WI looking for something to do, stop on by... its a great space run by great people!

Animation Projection Test

Phosphene : Video Art Spontaneous Installation

Here's some images from the show I've helped organize. Its at Borg Ward in Milwaukee during Milwaukee Noise Festival this weekend only.





Phosphene : a Video Art Spontaneous Installation at Borg Ward Collective in temporal accordance with Milwaukee Noise Festival. Televisions. Video Loops. Art. Music. Noise. One Place. One Weekend.
Sept. 24 - 26
The Borg Ward
823 W. National Ave
Milwaukee, WI

Phosphene Info

Here's some info on a project I'm working on:

Phosphene : a Video Art Spontaneous Installation at Borg Ward Collective in temporal accordance with Milwaukee Noise Festival. Old Televisions. Video loops. Art. Music. Noise. One Place. One Weekend.

Phosphene : both free-form and structured. It will display work that explores more abstract, distorted, mechanical/organic possibilities through visual/video and more. The installation will occupy the gallery side of the Borg Ward venue and will provide a visual counterpart/doppelganger for the sound performances of Milwaukee Noise Festival. Users/viewers will be in for a weekend of visual and auditory overload.

Phosphene : a ring or spot of light produced by pressure on the eyeball or direct stimulation of the visual system other than by light.

Sept. 24 - 26
The Borg Ward
823 W. National Ave
Milwaukee, WI

Crosstalk

MOre Good news! "gridworks2000-anim09" will be a part of the Crosstalk Video Art Festival in Budapest Hungary this summer. That makes two International festivals showing the work with FILE in Brazil. And back here I'll be installing the project with a few other things in at the Peninsula School of the Arts in their upcoming exhibition "Flicker's of Recognition: Technology and the Self Portrait". Its in Door County Wisconsin and will be the first video installation of the work. I'm planning to do at least one semi-transparent screen in front of the wall to build the projection a little bit in reference to the pseudo 3D space depicted in the animation. I'm also going to hang as many of the drawings that went into the work as I can.

More MFA show Pics

This is not generous enough:



Image links to the photoset

MFA Opening

Here are some images from my MFA show which opened last night.
Any questions, ask!!!

research

Up the Ice

I'll post more updates later this week.

I think I finished the painting that is the central focus of my MFA project. In total I'll work with 216 images of said painting. It will be displayed in its final state as well as the 16 screen dual projector animation, large format print of each image, stack of prints on transparency and light box, and finally a collection of versions of the animated video including installation tests.

That was a mouthful and I know it sounds confusing but it makes sense in my head. Also, this is only what I think it will end up being right now. Maybe I'll post a diagram of what the installation may look like. I've got about a month and a half to work out the kinks now that I'll be in a post-production sort of stage.

Grid:Current Practice Shots

Here's a preview of what a portion of my MFA show may look like: