OSCILLATE: Art Celebrating Light and Movement – Various Artists, January 10 – February 8, 2013

OSCILLATE: Art Celebrating Light and Movement

Various Artists

OPENING Thursday, January 10, 2013, 6-10pm. FREE
(show runs through February 8, 2013)
Blitz! Second Thursday Artswalk is January 10.

Artists panel discussion on Wednesday, Feb 6, 7:00-8:30pm.

This show celebrates the human capacity to manipulate light and electromagnetism to shape sensory experiences of movement.

Works from thirteen artists and technologists were selected to reflect playful, innovative trends that emerge as artists embrace technology, and technologists embrace art.

Projects include Anthrolume: a wearable, computer-controlled light suit with 250 LEDs, Meteoroleum: a window of programmable lights representing oscillations of Seattle weather, a Self-animating Seesaw, driven by hand-wound electromagnets controlled by a microcontroller, and Tesla’s corpse: a kinetic sculpture visualizing electromagnetic flux lines.

Briar Bates A Frock of Crows
Doug Bell Fly Through a Fractal
Michele Boland Particle
Peter Divide SeeNoEvil
Shelly Farnham Robot Marilyn
Ben Flaster Tesla’s Corpse
Nadja Haldimann Gaps. Cracks. Revelations
Jeff Larson & kEvin Friberg This is a Present from a Small Distant World
Josh Lind Meteorolumen
Shellee Miggins Light Emitting Diodes are Killing Me
Mario Nima Self-animating Seesaw & Box with a Universal Connector
Bryan Ressler Anthrolume
Justin Rodda A Light Month

Curated by Shelly Farnham, Anne Blackburn, and friends of Dorkbot. Dorkbot showcases innovative trends in contemporary art by bringing together artists and technologists who work with electricity in a significant way either in their art or in its creation. Dorkbotsea.org

Category: Art