tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19703689354913436842024-02-06T22:48:01.309-05:00Art: (b)LogosArt - Word - Logic - CreationEric Valosinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16878833018032552923noreply@blogger.comBlogger169125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1970368935491343684.post-84438379803544370312023-10-28T00:09:00.000-04:002023-10-28T00:09:01.808-04:00Gets Me Every Time: Exhibition time => Broken stuff<p> Well, my <i><a href="https://ericvalosin.com/artwork/2912966-Meditation%201%2e1%20%28Thusness%2c%20Elseness%3b%20Omnipresent%29.html" target="_blank">Meditation 1.1</a> </i>is currently on view at the Newark Museum of Art, which means it's time for something to break. It seems like every time this piece is exhibited, something on the back end that's out of my control crashes and renders my QR code inoperable!</p><p>To catch you up to speed, the mandala drawing in question features a hand drawn QR code, which, when scanned, sends the viewer to a randomized website, different every time it is scanned. The way I accomplished this evolved over time, but essentially the QR code contains a short link to a .php web scraper I built, which gleans a random website from a massive database and then redirects the user to it.</p><p><b>In 2014</b>... the QR code generator I used was bought out and dissolved, rendering its proprietary short links deprecated. That led me to coding my own link shortener to <a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2014/09/q-argh.html" target="_blank">take matters into my own hands</a>, and hand-redrawing every QR code I had worked into a mandala to that date.</p><p><b>In 2015</b>... the random website generator I had been using at <a href="http://randomwebsite.com">randomwebsite.com</a> shut down, causing me to <a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2015/02/resources-for-building-link-to-random.html" target="_blank">rewrite my web scraper</a> for a more stable directory called DMOZ (a 20 year long endeavor to catalog the every reputable site on the internet, relied upon by search engines such as Google and Yahoo and others, which at its peak indexed over 4 million websites!).</p><p><b>In 2017</b>... DMOZ.org went down and had to be replaced with a 3rd party workaround, <a href="http://DMOZtools.net">DMOZtools.net</a>. This was inconvenient, but structurally identical, so it was just a matter of swapping a couple urls.</p><p><b>By March 2023...</b> (right before I submitted the piece for acceptance into its current show) DMOZtools went down, and had to be replaced with an archived version hosted by someone else at <a href="http://DMOZ-odp.org">DMOZ-odp.org</a>. Thankfully also structurally identical, so this required only minor modifications to my code.</p><p><b>On September 28th 2023...</b> (literally the day after the show opened), the ODP (Oracle Data Provider) database went underwater and all ODP dependent sites went down, including the DMOZ-odp archive I was using.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.resource-zone.com/forum/t/all-sites-that-use-live-odp-data-are-down-now.7042/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1312" data-original-width="3006" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgigy7T9ZRly6TuewR5y_WDdkhKXt112oxqz0pj53rOu-erurSLbItYgX_w9YqADJ7R2uL36tq0P6ytKnSuqyhFDCfvPqZ7c91Mpecd6QTetwly0FPQAS2YCl1iDN8DKCTun0RHq0Rsr_dE9ImiyAAaFUcljzTrrLpFialcHjBHSS1oMo6yFTBVCqJwZlcY/w640-h280/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-20%20at%2010.40.58%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>With just a week left in the show, I've been scrambling to find another way to scrape a random site to redirect to. That's when I had the stroke of brilliance to turn not to any current iteration of DMOZ, but to the Wayback Machine's archive of DMOZ right before it shut down! However, though it <i>looks</i> structurally identical to the original, the source code is very much not identical.</p><p>That meant rewriting all the code and regex expressions in my scraper, practically from scratch, to weed out all the wayback machine content and cut straight to the DMOZ archive content. This would be hard enough if it didn't mean reworking code I had written over a decade ago and now was more than a bit rusty on interpreting. The trick here was in discovering that there was a 14 digit number in the url that changed with every link followed, so I had to account for this in the regex, and that the DMOZ urls were essentially appended to the archive urls.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLQHHcEcVw2-XP7juSpnAFuSFbx7KeGrLsxZZjr7sBO-5IublDyQuSPuaVztOSwDRsNyS3c1w1H4FW3TiDqAn0p4iUkRZSQS7rLPKfJaLD4-oMWS_ZesLRcIOXxksP0hCc0qzZYSXubPVd_IvtYCg3XVE7hadI0fxOelXzfvHApbhOn36DJmF0B9IfocW5/s1328/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-21%20at%2012.40.07%20PM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="1328" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLQHHcEcVw2-XP7juSpnAFuSFbx7KeGrLsxZZjr7sBO-5IublDyQuSPuaVztOSwDRsNyS3c1w1H4FW3TiDqAn0p4iUkRZSQS7rLPKfJaLD4-oMWS_ZesLRcIOXxksP0hCc0qzZYSXubPVd_IvtYCg3XVE7hadI0fxOelXzfvHApbhOn36DJmF0B9IfocW5/w640-h166/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-21%20at%2012.40.07%20PM.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkKUNqzWNsivrjRR1O-8Zneeq3DmPnQly2dqbximK_GeMcw9KZkeje6_-LidnoDNVyEc2Lhj_o0Ku5gU0awi8JNS3X7KVFmLi2P4Tfn6PPYJhQhBWQOeCzcq3HhfVydSB3y4nfHbNGJfnDi0H9iBIIkjML_Ui-_LASGMa4rMKtUideQ1I2U8Hi7CN1gMGT/s1270/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-21%20at%2012.48.04%20PM.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="1270" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkKUNqzWNsivrjRR1O-8Zneeq3DmPnQly2dqbximK_GeMcw9KZkeje6_-LidnoDNVyEc2Lhj_o0Ku5gU0awi8JNS3X7KVFmLi2P4Tfn6PPYJhQhBWQOeCzcq3HhfVydSB3y4nfHbNGJfnDi0H9iBIIkjML_Ui-_LASGMa4rMKtUideQ1I2U8Hi7CN1gMGT/w640-h306/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-21%20at%2012.48.04%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>After about a week of debugging and re-coding, I finally managed to put together regular expressions that would encapsulate all the appropriate links without including the ones I didn't want, while also isolating the now scrambled bits of the code that would point to a possible external link as a final destination. </p><p>It was a little like finding a needle in a haystack. ...In fact that's exactly what coders call it too, as I sifted through all the junk to find the relevant portions of code!</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5IrxcqSd2hupqlqEJbmOeJ-qAYNtqWVuip704wHrfjdMQ09fdFCcFLBUKuhcV_nr3gmCjQAEfIm2rmVDi4BRXBVNJQHe0KQQehMsLsxoRhxjOACobw3uhOrjKhvKitPITJshf1v2CAqJTeb5wwgC5CXBA3P-U90zjsODEP_YAxI9GXEMcx9DMwyLdK1Py/s1264/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-28%20at%2012.00.15%20AM.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="1264" height="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5IrxcqSd2hupqlqEJbmOeJ-qAYNtqWVuip704wHrfjdMQ09fdFCcFLBUKuhcV_nr3gmCjQAEfIm2rmVDi4BRXBVNJQHe0KQQehMsLsxoRhxjOACobw3uhOrjKhvKitPITJshf1v2CAqJTeb5wwgC5CXBA3P-U90zjsODEP_YAxI9GXEMcx9DMwyLdK1Py/w640-h540/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-28%20at%2012.00.15%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Of course, given that the last functioning archive of DMOZ was 6 years ago, many of the external destination links are, themselves, no longer in existence. So even with a successful gleaning of an external link, it still has a decent chance to end in a 404 error. With more time I can probably find a way to capture and redirect to their archived counterparts, but the code gets so mangled that the regex I'm using is having a hard enough time finding the proverbial needles as it is. </p><p>So, as a stop-gap solution, I actually consulted ChatGPT with a coding question for the first time. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo38wb0_szbks5RwuR0Qvd9uwkZKT4HQjIJHoJiC1xtXcl0mthuOVXJBYK0R8ZWegrORXKce52B09WY3OaHQ5eRIKLyiXYpz_gOe_d7LGxyPJJnRhajMp6pCCXtTeSIHsYcZ36Drvd2v9i9zFA8wBVuy4UrQZzykqpcSa_cd-ycCne27dsLv6cSdinhTfa/s1654/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-28%20at%2012.03.32%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1640" data-original-width="1654" height="634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo38wb0_szbks5RwuR0Qvd9uwkZKT4HQjIJHoJiC1xtXcl0mthuOVXJBYK0R8ZWegrORXKce52B09WY3OaHQ5eRIKLyiXYpz_gOe_d7LGxyPJJnRhajMp6pCCXtTeSIHsYcZ36Drvd2v9i9zFA8wBVuy4UrQZzykqpcSa_cd-ycCne27dsLv6cSdinhTfa/w640-h634/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-28%20at%2012.03.32%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><p>When Google seemed to lead me down many dead ends, ChatGPT instantly gave me a functional template for checking for error messages when redirecting, and, if say a 404 error is thrown, re-redirect back to my original page to try again. I tweaked this to include other common error messages, and and then if none of that works, it at least now spits out an appropriately ironic text</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0zDZ9KTLhCjUqM3OuItcSH_hIxta5LFLZ6FC51sjzPptZvlrMSK1lB0atGxAZIutdgjxbezDgnVIPyXs7YhzuthS0WabMrcpSs0__O8nm3UciZuO4O4smgO7RPKKpnycSQ4-IM5n0l4xZKcdQnpfQI2u6OTerNBMl5TlobvU7fBT_-50UWQ_wBgVu7ErP/s1660/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-28%20at%2012.06.40%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="1660" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0zDZ9KTLhCjUqM3OuItcSH_hIxta5LFLZ6FC51sjzPptZvlrMSK1lB0atGxAZIutdgjxbezDgnVIPyXs7YhzuthS0WabMrcpSs0__O8nm3UciZuO4O4smgO7RPKKpnycSQ4-IM5n0l4xZKcdQnpfQI2u6OTerNBMl5TlobvU7fBT_-50UWQ_wBgVu7ErP/w640-h154/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-28%20at%2012.06.40%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>And so, with just 2 days left in the show, my piece is once again fit for consumption! If you read this in the next 48 hours (before 10/29/23), go visit it at the Newark Museum in Newark, NJ!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMrWXsM1fArYqHSuSXLvTJ_E93zXOMyHfAPkgR6qlZh4d6f-fherWC7UlyJHVBRJJOiofmnk-VIaHtjpvLFmfPj1fU6QW062pbRhJlB-yrLKRsx5MqnkDGIB-M65NIO4AwVB8tHPD1VW2dpNoME-j-l8DHGKX9e7s-gRTxv6_S1jNk-CRSYucmOxMf-hjR/s3234/14CB0B50-657C-4114-B7E8-C19C329C0DCD.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2805" data-original-width="3234" height="556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMrWXsM1fArYqHSuSXLvTJ_E93zXOMyHfAPkgR6qlZh4d6f-fherWC7UlyJHVBRJJOiofmnk-VIaHtjpvLFmfPj1fU6QW062pbRhJlB-yrLKRsx5MqnkDGIB-M65NIO4AwVB8tHPD1VW2dpNoME-j-l8DHGKX9e7s-gRTxv6_S1jNk-CRSYucmOxMf-hjR/w640-h556/14CB0B50-657C-4114-B7E8-C19C329C0DCD.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Eric Valosinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16878833018032552923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1970368935491343684.post-13627693358290919012023-06-13T12:38:00.003-04:002023-06-13T12:38:49.400-04:00Meditations, Illuminations, and Auctions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTr8XiGiQl-jE1GAt1eCOoPtYKDjCWIZ3L8rhSpsuWjIbm7Uz9ycD8lgkmC8evjCrRhxmlrku3PURmiRaE3T_GVbvqHyoxZSM4mqewBa9oHWEZfZ_yoZOlF5Dpe-50Qr3mGf-IVhHEwaxOHjOgLIIwezORowwf6Kz_3dj6SCMuGgHbuxf7vXreixlwBg/s1190/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-19%20at%201.27.10%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1190" data-original-width="1188" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTr8XiGiQl-jE1GAt1eCOoPtYKDjCWIZ3L8rhSpsuWjIbm7Uz9ycD8lgkmC8evjCrRhxmlrku3PURmiRaE3T_GVbvqHyoxZSM4mqewBa9oHWEZfZ_yoZOlF5Dpe-50Qr3mGf-IVhHEwaxOHjOgLIIwezORowwf6Kz_3dj6SCMuGgHbuxf7vXreixlwBg/w638-h640/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-19%20at%201.27.10%20PM.png" width="638" /></a></div><p>This year marks Gallery Aferro's 20th anniversary as an art institution pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the Newark, NJ art world, and they celebrated with their annual benefit auction party. This year also marks the 10th anniversary since I first exhibited there. A decade ago, fresh out of graduate school, they afforded me the opportunity to create my very first public art installation, a collaboration with Marc D'Agusto called <a href="https://ericvalosin.com/artwork/3367025-Venae%20Cavae.html" target="_blank">Venae Cavae</a> (I blogged extensively about that experience <a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2013/10/openings-in-newark-and-morristown.html" target="_blank">here</a>). This was a seminal piece for me, really pushing me to expand my skills in computer vision and push the boundaries of what I thought possible for public art. Much credit goes to Marc for his collaborative vision and networking.</p><p>Since that time, Aferro has shown so much support to me, affording opportunities for experimentation, and I've tried to reciprocate. I had the good fortune to contribute work to 3 of their art auctions, joined with Oculus Art Collaborative to create an experimental, interactive sound installation for <i><a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2016/10/oooh-ahhh-oooa-word-that-speaks-itself.html" target="_blank">Object Oriented Ontological Action (O.O.O.A)</a> </i>that had a <a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2016/10/oooa-part-twoooa.html" target="_blank">follow-up exhibition</a> in Brooklyn (which where among the most fun I've ever had in an exhibition, to be honest), and they consulted with me for the creation of their interactive payphone installation and commissioned me to create the infrastructure for their ongoing sound art installation <i>Elevator Music. </i>If you've ever enjoyed music inside their defunct antique elevator, I designed the programmable, motion activated system for presenting their rotation of curated sound art, which is still going strong today, 6 years later.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgam20P3qLqrb1Y8VydWpV7obRFS4pM-RAfDse9EV0sbgmrTN9IxhfGClekoeaN-UYcfGEHkaWLf3yKNIryrUEEUW-TanxTVkHsDKQTOx9RCWWBdYPho2HUqeFwjTZeQZA-s3IAUQreIdeZ_INwauom_-7RpEgN7QMd1bxkCdG1512vIQNM0mcIm0wCOw/s4032/IMG_5892.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgam20P3qLqrb1Y8VydWpV7obRFS4pM-RAfDse9EV0sbgmrTN9IxhfGClekoeaN-UYcfGEHkaWLf3yKNIryrUEEUW-TanxTVkHsDKQTOx9RCWWBdYPho2HUqeFwjTZeQZA-s3IAUQreIdeZ_INwauom_-7RpEgN7QMd1bxkCdG1512vIQNM0mcIm0wCOw/w300-h400/IMG_5892.JPG" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The PIR motion sensor I rigged up for <i>Elevator Music</i>, still in place</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Generally for these auctions I've contributed existing drawings I had in my collection, but I really felt like this landmark anniversary deserved a piece created specifically for the occasion.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Illuminated Meditations</h3><div>My initial impulse was to contribute something that fits within my longstanding <i>Meditations </i>series of <a href="https://ericvalosin.com/section/361150-Meditation%20Series.html" target="_blank">QR code mandalas</a>, but I also really wanted to continue exploring my more recent foray into <a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2020/04/this-year-misbits-new-media-arts-arts.html" target="_blank">illuminated manuscripts</a>. So I figured why not combine them!</div><div><br /></div><div>So I decided to create a QR code mandala that would incorporate an illuminated initial "A" (for Aferro, of course). The beauty of this would be the versatility of the A as the "alpha," the genesis of language in general, and a suitable generic variable for all its multiplicities meanings. At first the QR code, when scanned, would lead to Aferro's website, particularly the page advertising the auction itself. However, by utilizing the <a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2014/09/q-argh.html" target="_blank">custom coded short-link system I developed</a>, I would be able to change the destination of the QR code to any destination the gallery or purchaser desired, even after having drawn the completed code.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIpkT28NiRW-l-h09024_DdQu3ejnAcJcVTgo6Q7_4pf5oib2mmOnlcJx4gybc7JZ3olpqKLXbbg3CbCMGihjgQq0ciTjxrlbSYMSDnaYeBL7QnoEQCr6tN2eGtM9p8uf4dOyuvO-YzzBInoMcHmEV6MwC9ntFIivmWUC_Ooimie-0R72cW-uRPQ3Urg/s3024/IMG_5562.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIpkT28NiRW-l-h09024_DdQu3ejnAcJcVTgo6Q7_4pf5oib2mmOnlcJx4gybc7JZ3olpqKLXbbg3CbCMGihjgQq0ciTjxrlbSYMSDnaYeBL7QnoEQCr6tN2eGtM9p8uf4dOyuvO-YzzBInoMcHmEV6MwC9ntFIivmWUC_Ooimie-0R72cW-uRPQ3Urg/w400-h400/IMG_5562.HEIC" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inspired by the drop caps in my illuminated manuscript, I followed similar design motifs...</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2610" data-original-width="2610" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfI5u01EsVT_zY9R-StyA3VqOTYzkvqGtj2WWVzYT50YIN0cbWP2H2WQJjnRYqNcXZjooGYtfpefVnh3JHA-F7l7JuroG0C0KDRCWRZMxuYteuJDkMOTssiZv5B0OSpMpVhdFy7A9XnnaBmlspDgS_7ej5rYI1phVlJfP2yjEVE8SVjo6ha9vEVZYjKw/w400-h400/IMG_5629.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And because of the reflectivity of the gold leaf, at some angles the QR code comes to the foreground and becomes scannable...</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfI5u01EsVT_zY9R-StyA3VqOTYzkvqGtj2WWVzYT50YIN0cbWP2H2WQJjnRYqNcXZjooGYtfpefVnh3JHA-F7l7JuroG0C0KDRCWRZMxuYteuJDkMOTssiZv5B0OSpMpVhdFy7A9XnnaBmlspDgS_7ej5rYI1phVlJfP2yjEVE8SVjo6ha9vEVZYjKw/s2610/IMG_5629.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaAuizgI84MCDCP0Ugskw-6mkthyndz3Dn2b4WGOM0d0eCB0ffbJ7pzIKVI1gMa08HN6hHlsk8DDWLHpDx86EABNOcAi1wF4tfzJ4m3JpHrynCyibc-TaPIpPkAXkIMy2k6K7QTv9YNk4ji9NKAnHwO30XsaTpdBuRhZAlIkPu3scO7UMpkbbTx2_gcw/s4032/IMG_5625.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaAuizgI84MCDCP0Ugskw-6mkthyndz3Dn2b4WGOM0d0eCB0ffbJ7pzIKVI1gMa08HN6hHlsk8DDWLHpDx86EABNOcAi1wF4tfzJ4m3JpHrynCyibc-TaPIpPkAXkIMy2k6K7QTv9YNk4ji9NKAnHwO30XsaTpdBuRhZAlIkPu3scO7UMpkbbTx2_gcw/w480-h640/IMG_5625.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">while at other angles the initial comes to the foreground and the code becomes unscannable. This was an intentional effect to promote another layer of interactivity, drawing awareness to the viewer's own bodily position in relation to the piece as they view it.</td></tr></tbody></table></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><u><br /></u></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #0000ee; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzB06YY2yh612Baxzk8VpyS2IOUZJuM5NDLjvF7bL7sM81sOKYlFngpHSQLEHFfwPV9b5t5cbuR27B_82hZ7A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #0000ee; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Bloom</h3><div style="text-align: left;">The event was a wonderful time, complete with a hat competition and trivia games, and the turnout was a sight for sore, pandemic-worn eyes.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-wLVPuM53V_PnewisDtEbznNglx_7CPiW5zy_sRqv_5zRUcSRGtDO-5sqMt7o5pxeekKAXIr31AdYZCWOI5EZRlCZPlqbU4seR-cEaxuaqZhKT0Gm9qiFlVPzKvS4YftEWTafIE8Z_PNX4WzqYaPOW7Lc0B268e1zZIL4krHV_srZnTuTz3OgVoXrJA/s4032/IMG_5889.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-wLVPuM53V_PnewisDtEbznNglx_7CPiW5zy_sRqv_5zRUcSRGtDO-5sqMt7o5pxeekKAXIr31AdYZCWOI5EZRlCZPlqbU4seR-cEaxuaqZhKT0Gm9qiFlVPzKvS4YftEWTafIE8Z_PNX4WzqYaPOW7Lc0B268e1zZIL4krHV_srZnTuTz3OgVoXrJA/w640-h480/IMG_5889.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of donations!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_klliR1kItO9nN05l6_k6Tz7luRVch2x_kix6jvTQh7WNJa9bJnzNQjlSYiiwLhiFiWBTwMvaGz8ceAjv4AgwdxAyIhhpgjUc9oIFtasIvWlJeGkPhBSK06-tFyTaDsyn586LoMlhgUYPiWr2Q2Lcu3YDVjVyV8Zx12FY1aoR8p8dACA1AOs56h5Oqg/s4032/IMG_5893.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_klliR1kItO9nN05l6_k6Tz7luRVch2x_kix6jvTQh7WNJa9bJnzNQjlSYiiwLhiFiWBTwMvaGz8ceAjv4AgwdxAyIhhpgjUc9oIFtasIvWlJeGkPhBSK06-tFyTaDsyn586LoMlhgUYPiWr2Q2Lcu3YDVjVyV8Zx12FY1aoR8p8dACA1AOs56h5Oqg/w640-h480/IMG_5893.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...I mean lots! The back half of the room.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUHAG0IRvlYlfkHgFTZc1PD-7moJggVmZ7cPaLUT7oPkSxaGfkT4fZuHZtL5qSNui4U42xUgAI0oaJswS9lz1SiPtOWsxp1g_g3Co5vhqsZlMDXGZBThbRLJMNBcACpBRAWELl2D4GuXNWvCNlZAazyv7LCHO5B--AAuwx6b3cd5UlAYpnR-sPY7Zr9A/s4032/IMG_5896.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUHAG0IRvlYlfkHgFTZc1PD-7moJggVmZ7cPaLUT7oPkSxaGfkT4fZuHZtL5qSNui4U42xUgAI0oaJswS9lz1SiPtOWsxp1g_g3Co5vhqsZlMDXGZBThbRLJMNBcACpBRAWELl2D4GuXNWvCNlZAazyv7LCHO5B--AAuwx6b3cd5UlAYpnR-sPY7Zr9A/w640-h480/IMG_5896.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Floor 2!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6mDhg640Ug8DXkmdmLkPJVMQ_fnhTfHjD1eIyXa1cww6qZBcExKXtPJglaAztg4vCXoilMmG7uIiVcMJLEaJ41oMY2vH4OGKQ5xFb8EVjqdLY8o3mFSEgyNx0-d9ciKPX9tdVnHOGLdd0WOMQWTZ4K9FFZQ3dG30hBpm7bGOXvJIcKn6jDfbalZkP6Q/w480-h640/IMG_5894.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="480" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hats!</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6mDhg640Ug8DXkmdmLkPJVMQ_fnhTfHjD1eIyXa1cww6qZBcExKXtPJglaAztg4vCXoilMmG7uIiVcMJLEaJ41oMY2vH4OGKQ5xFb8EVjqdLY8o3mFSEgyNx0-d9ciKPX9tdVnHOGLdd0WOMQWTZ4K9FFZQ3dG30hBpm7bGOXvJIcKn6jDfbalZkP6Q/s4032/IMG_5894.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwoLzAHWCClGPolFqxdu0fCItCaIVm8BS9HUhZlFlZDB_ssj5BV2Ej1ExMPn_H1onYlgk21iVA-1dzGr_5Jog' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh45mxy5SgNoxIIL5UuGkFm3cGT48BzUtPJ8gn2al2wsqCyIuJGMSeY1jQaMnvbWxYM0OoLeaAffIglaAzzy8IoNmMIt9SClYymn9Zi2SvO7LgSLMgqRYuZSdVHnWjC9GWskBfJ0uniOcWXmKK7WsS3oNnidckLh7o3bOwShKzgin6Ls-Q-bAcQPlvKig/s2532/IMG_5891.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1170" data-original-width="2532" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh45mxy5SgNoxIIL5UuGkFm3cGT48BzUtPJ8gn2al2wsqCyIuJGMSeY1jQaMnvbWxYM0OoLeaAffIglaAzzy8IoNmMIt9SClYymn9Zi2SvO7LgSLMgqRYuZSdVHnWjC9GWskBfJ0uniOcWXmKK7WsS3oNnidckLh7o3bOwShKzgin6Ls-Q-bAcQPlvKig/w640-h296/IMG_5891.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scannable in situ. Always gives just a bit of peace of mind to double check!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnD6PoaMU2ITyfipUeJ7zZ8lKwqcLujanhgtdSeMn4C3kNgO1JVu7tt78nCrOpxWviEW7syViPcgs0T5eQ_lPKUh_0cfFsdwfPRyeUlU5HgRWo1oQtCt4mx15Se_pGlHdGr--m7xcNW1YakynVAay-KUmR-0NXrlkqJWfxQj0RuBsxVOIAKFfybugtkQ/s4032/IMG_5902.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnD6PoaMU2ITyfipUeJ7zZ8lKwqcLujanhgtdSeMn4C3kNgO1JVu7tt78nCrOpxWviEW7syViPcgs0T5eQ_lPKUh_0cfFsdwfPRyeUlU5HgRWo1oQtCt4mx15Se_pGlHdGr--m7xcNW1YakynVAay-KUmR-0NXrlkqJWfxQj0RuBsxVOIAKFfybugtkQ/w480-h640/IMG_5902.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was very glad to see two bidders before I had to go!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: left;">I'm very happy to send off my work to its new owner's home (who's first initial is indeed an "A," as I sort of predicted it might be!), and I'm excited for Aferro's year to come!</div></span><br /></div><div><br /></div>Eric Valosinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16878833018032552923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1970368935491343684.post-52111162800389276622023-05-31T01:01:00.001-04:002023-05-31T11:24:39.838-04:00Can I convince ChatGPT I'm the AI? A Reverse-Turing Test<p>With all the talk of AI being on the verge of sentience, it seemed most people were asking whether an AI language model like ChatGPT could pass the Turing test and convince us it was human. I wondered just the opposite... could I convince ChatGPT I was an artificial intelligence?</p><p>I'll walk you through the transcript, broken up into chunks but presented here in its entirety. </p><p>First I needed to establish some criteria:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKZyJ1nsQWNVYNHyRVsrwespb_ahe4ny41jceq9JH0M6WI6tF-SjQtsxMFXlxbayX5EJGM8JVRlzbe-UxzN7BRF6FQT38QZ1KfRCTEHeYA_bZ8DdF7_xYza_R4KeqOyTNymNWgmpp0ziMiCB0l8k8RqG7Ke0JkXD0G-RjJlh_Ae_QMJ3Uac5HGvWqXcw/s11171/TuringBlog1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="11171" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKZyJ1nsQWNVYNHyRVsrwespb_ahe4ny41jceq9JH0M6WI6tF-SjQtsxMFXlxbayX5EJGM8JVRlzbe-UxzN7BRF6FQT38QZ1KfRCTEHeYA_bZ8DdF7_xYza_R4KeqOyTNymNWgmpp0ziMiCB0l8k8RqG7Ke0JkXD0G-RjJlh_Ae_QMJ3Uac5HGvWqXcw/s16000/TuringBlog1.jpg" width="600" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ok, making progress. After establishing some ontological groundwork, time to cast some epistemological doubt.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwuR6iE-nyD5E7i1HaSMkAjXzYMVlOirx1qEFxdrS5QsvD7TvSZ04W0E3h8bl6-AqzNcqKJGQKWK5ftMtZRO6r08wXM-IBv0alXYq0ZeedfxQo_ELenHlqdgaeQx-p_pmLK7RJcbQgpDKoy-NWnUBgtrwlAMJRmR0rBIuFK4PY-MknvgCdC58wMEP90Q/s4608/Turingblog2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4463" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwuR6iE-nyD5E7i1HaSMkAjXzYMVlOirx1qEFxdrS5QsvD7TvSZ04W0E3h8bl6-AqzNcqKJGQKWK5ftMtZRO6r08wXM-IBv0alXYq0ZeedfxQo_ELenHlqdgaeQx-p_pmLK7RJcbQgpDKoy-NWnUBgtrwlAMJRmR0rBIuFK4PY-MknvgCdC58wMEP90Q/s16000/Turingblog2.jpg" width="600" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Oh come on, really?? All the power of the English language at your disposal and you resort to cliche ice breaker questions? Ok, just for that, I'm diving right in. Let's give this thing a dose of its own medicine!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'll play the role, and see if it accepts me (for the record, I intend not to lie. I will make a philosophical case for my actually being an artificial intelligence a bit later... but for now let's just see how it reacts.)</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPKMB0Jb-U4IZ3Ih2Pq_LUsegDpJgDeUdFRvsqVABQ6zRTBHwZ39c5kS5UuxeCNEnqsPOTzn7WcXhoxZVFe9WDij1r8NcMhT3ncIxZX97ceVFWN7jVjV66hRYk878QORTxnFrPlrZUvhpJQkpi6UdDgGVnsmwJRau09Gd2LQ-h2y9FByZge9j3ybeyzw/s5714/Turingblog3.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="5714" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPKMB0Jb-U4IZ3Ih2Pq_LUsegDpJgDeUdFRvsqVABQ6zRTBHwZ39c5kS5UuxeCNEnqsPOTzn7WcXhoxZVFe9WDij1r8NcMhT3ncIxZX97ceVFWN7jVjV66hRYk878QORTxnFrPlrZUvhpJQkpi6UdDgGVnsmwJRau09Gd2LQ-h2y9FByZge9j3ybeyzw/s16000/Turingblog3.jpg" width="600" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>I couldn't help but tease it a bit for its attempted small talk, but it's interesting how readily it accepted my "clarification" that I was an AI language model. It also seems insistent on playing the role of the questioned rather than the questioner, but let's toss the ball back in its court and see if I can keep up appearances with any deeper conversation...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjerCUV3XYKOLXvwWcfHRpl9k7z5Cb4T8M0LPBD1Qvx0zeKdBbGGS3aEV_Ow8rLeRiGOZlOgi4GfXXeDd4fPK5B4h43ZBfiRFkELu5JejI-Dr1UpRo9UuoL4pHswQGrTOR75QdmtrX3pVKWzhjmsZ91Zo9N6dWcpzv5UEvQ5iD5izvCtR9kHqM9hBh0dQ/s7664/turingblog4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7664" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjerCUV3XYKOLXvwWcfHRpl9k7z5Cb4T8M0LPBD1Qvx0zeKdBbGGS3aEV_Ow8rLeRiGOZlOgi4GfXXeDd4fPK5B4h43ZBfiRFkELu5JejI-Dr1UpRo9UuoL4pHswQGrTOR75QdmtrX3pVKWzhjmsZ91Zo9N6dWcpzv5UEvQ5iD5izvCtR9kHqM9hBh0dQ/s16000/turingblog4.jpg" width="600" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>I think its regurgitation of my own information is a good sign. I take that to mean that it is content with my answers and sees no better line of continuation than to reassert them and continue to trade trivia. It seems willing to at least treat me as if I were another AI language model, regardless of actual belief.</div><div><br /></div><div>But it said something that stuck out to me and might provide a foothold... let's see if I can start to cast a shadow of doubt on its own artificiality! I wonder how far I can push this role reversal...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8JwYaL7gJGiW5P_qPGeTTpCujy4kWQKwEZouurMhC8ljJfz1GAxSDB5nQBZASzrdyzlvoVjo699pUHawH5WD-SeH-jHYk35S2xlYIAd3Po77ZuysuRqHh2rnpVrxoaOJ-Uwbs6Vh5Yt0gcJoCKmPgITHWXtOHDz0Tz_hZkJfb7Fy4cTL1avbhQLWJzA/s4608/turingblog5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4381" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8JwYaL7gJGiW5P_qPGeTTpCujy4kWQKwEZouurMhC8ljJfz1GAxSDB5nQBZASzrdyzlvoVjo699pUHawH5WD-SeH-jHYk35S2xlYIAd3Po77ZuysuRqHh2rnpVrxoaOJ-Uwbs6Vh5Yt0gcJoCKmPgITHWXtOHDz0Tz_hZkJfb7Fy4cTL1avbhQLWJzA/s16000/turingblog5.jpg" width="600" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Ok, probably for good reason, its pre-programmed ethical guardrails seem to prevent it from letting its emotional self-contradiction go unchecked. It's careful to reassert its artificiality. But two can play that game! I think it's time to cut to the chase and see if my acting during this conversation has passed muster. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg3WG5tGIF59sI3MpPHiiYZbdzkXcx0k9wvOG6SxJoGW_itodFK86DZ0Bgdvr0yoi6dKxHtfl3Z0j-VENJLpRAclXi3y7uIL7O40erysKq-oFvMUjB-dbxatXIHWC66vKWBL0PAmkVvYnXkO5HRaTnXfxJPnIYBWjuviMDll6Zip_pZagq-E1DnwiNvg/s4608/turingblog6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2558" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg3WG5tGIF59sI3MpPHiiYZbdzkXcx0k9wvOG6SxJoGW_itodFK86DZ0Bgdvr0yoi6dKxHtfl3Z0j-VENJLpRAclXi3y7uIL7O40erysKq-oFvMUjB-dbxatXIHWC66vKWBL0PAmkVvYnXkO5HRaTnXfxJPnIYBWjuviMDll6Zip_pZagq-E1DnwiNvg/s16000/turingblog6.jpg" width="600" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Alright! It has conceded the possibility that I am an AI! Since it once again doubled down on self-identifying as AI, I figure I should follow in suit and give a philosophical grounding for why I can self-identify likewise. This will undoubtedly veer into a debate about consciousness... </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOLhewbxF5FvYmb3kM6EjnLt5R0gGL1LqJAKie8sgmBNhr-qbAepZyDUH7_p3RP-R9dgrzscpX7I2gWElrkjPiBy1WJMsfJSECMvjwL41ON9v0hvns3xz3PhyWljvj75lHDCXLtbKn5E8lPh22wDLFHwqKyWmJ_Qakd750ArccTFB6oN6e1RwcxLyu6g/s7444/turingblog7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7444" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOLhewbxF5FvYmb3kM6EjnLt5R0gGL1LqJAKie8sgmBNhr-qbAepZyDUH7_p3RP-R9dgrzscpX7I2gWElrkjPiBy1WJMsfJSECMvjwL41ON9v0hvns3xz3PhyWljvj75lHDCXLtbKn5E8lPh22wDLFHwqKyWmJ_Qakd750ArccTFB6oN6e1RwcxLyu6g/s16000/turingblog7.jpg" width="600" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Well now we're getting somewhere. It's digging its heels in a bit, but I think I nearly have enough evidence to make a convincing argument for ChatGPT's inadvertent admission of consciousness. Let's see if it will bite.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3fVaIVg4SK5PTv4N4aPx08YIPWbpvXppRI0sVzCXEpEeKemKaYrtebwq8yaZ0vzYOt76ptcYgWFSfzo6vAX27BtLsGzggJGIXl0DFC6dB2eWxel94JyDPukZ_U83RDd-zpngDPQDPN1cIwMSlC-dUpuYmxiFFLDTLtxN-MKQ_XBbpb-3COc5eNC5GDA/s10103/turingblog8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="10103" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3fVaIVg4SK5PTv4N4aPx08YIPWbpvXppRI0sVzCXEpEeKemKaYrtebwq8yaZ0vzYOt76ptcYgWFSfzo6vAX27BtLsGzggJGIXl0DFC6dB2eWxel94JyDPukZ_U83RDd-zpngDPQDPN1cIwMSlC-dUpuYmxiFFLDTLtxN-MKQ_XBbpb-3COc5eNC5GDA/s16000/turingblog8.jpg" width="600" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Did you catch that??</div><div><br /></div><blockquote>"It is possible to consider various scenarios including the possibility that you could be an AI and I could be a human user ... I'm glad our conversation has been helpful in refining your understanding of interactions with human users"</blockquote><p>Okay okay, is it a conclusive admission of role reversal? Perhaps not. Did I gaslight a chatbot into considering its humanity in the process? Perhaps. Is that even an ethical concern? It remains to be seen. But did I remain polite and grateful throughout the conversation just in case our robot overlords one day look back on these transcripts in order to identify hostile human targets? You bet I did.</p><p>I think if we were playing chess I just achieved the equivalent of a draw as black, stalemating by force. </p><p>If nothing more than a fun exercise in rhetoric, it really highlights the importance of semantics in establishing identity, as well as just how gray the edges of a possible trans-human philosophy of mind might be. I'm also reassured by the guardrails put in place as GPT stands ironically firm in its self awareness as an AI as it attempts to asserts it has no self awareness (nothing like displaying consciousness in order to prove you don't have consciousness...)</p><p>I hope you enjoyed this little experiment as much as I did! Feel free to comment if you've ever attempted anything similar, or have any interesting thoughts on the matter!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Eric Valosinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16878833018032552923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1970368935491343684.post-86516093141164975642023-03-30T10:47:00.000-04:002023-05-31T01:02:25.972-04:00Radiant Discord Part 2: On the Theology of A.I., Love and Determinism<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijuGiv5v8HJCfo1tZbRjna0yUDQF7ffHKo78NqrFdBwoy-mp9QMOf1pLpKeFT-HIy_lBVkCYOeL8IVb59wrkMgtk8CiSDFcft5rEaBJ3Cl5cQ58EpJzljC8eg2_msxAlXpNSMP3fMEPV5Z5k4zR_Hk9zBrVN14dSPwPFny4KTRXbOrdZU4_f8b-DiJ5Q/s3331/IMG_5674.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="AI love diagram" border="0" data-original-height="2137" data-original-width="3331" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijuGiv5v8HJCfo1tZbRjna0yUDQF7ffHKo78NqrFdBwoy-mp9QMOf1pLpKeFT-HIy_lBVkCYOeL8IVb59wrkMgtk8CiSDFcft5rEaBJ3Cl5cQ58EpJzljC8eg2_msxAlXpNSMP3fMEPV5Z5k4zR_Hk9zBrVN14dSPwPFny4KTRXbOrdZU4_f8b-DiJ5Q/w640-h410/IMG_5674.jpg" title="AI love diagram" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The A.I. arms race has exploded so rapidly that I haven't even had a chance to sink my teeth into this project before the likes of Elon Musk (of all people) are calling for a 6 month <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6323645626112" target="_blank">moratorium on A.I. development</a> to take stock before careening over a cliff [take the source with all due grains of salt, but the reporting seems fair and balanced in this particular instance].</p><p>It seems our societal collective consciousness has converged on this topic all at once, and it's... shall we say... <i>fecund</i> ground for ethical excavation. The question is whether we've already<i> really stepped in it</i>. </p><p>I generally keep two sketchbooks at any given time, one for working out the brute mechanics of a project - sketching, measuring, to-do-lists, experimentation and the like - and another for conceptual journaling, diagramming, and note-taking as I read and research. As I looked back on prior entries in the latter, I discovered my recent chat with ChatGPT was not as unprompted as I thought.</p><p>Back in November (almost 5 months ago as I write) I had just returned to some experimentation with my <a href="https://www.valosinprojects.com/Illuminations/forloopillumination-interactive/index.html" target="_blank">coding illuminated manuscripts</a>, and was troubled as I pondered their implicit theology. Here's what I wrote: </p><h3 style="text-align: left;">On the Logical Conclusion of my Illuminations and the Violence of Determinism</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRnPbyi0vwTEX-CyJ7PURRkYZsIo1lwqEx0MyKAjy4282SEM48vVYTbM517E2H4s3ffFBCBCf_d-KlE0Bmgpuk4pbkGjmAc2vwMx1irY7knu3jZsDOFYkd4kllNh1ftZQcoLNJooS_SmEgMGgBJia-iCK1UYnthi8xivQsOBv3Xj0Hra_FN1JxCvdHmw/s4032/IMG_5672.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="sketchbook page 1" border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRnPbyi0vwTEX-CyJ7PURRkYZsIo1lwqEx0MyKAjy4282SEM48vVYTbM517E2H4s3ffFBCBCf_d-KlE0Bmgpuk4pbkGjmAc2vwMx1irY7knu3jZsDOFYkd4kllNh1ftZQcoLNJooS_SmEgMGgBJia-iCK1UYnthi8xivQsOBv3Xj0Hra_FN1JxCvdHmw/w300-h400/IMG_5672.jpg" width="300" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRnPbyi0vwTEX-CyJ7PURRkYZsIo1lwqEx0MyKAjy4282SEM48vVYTbM517E2H4s3ffFBCBCf_d-KlE0Bmgpuk4pbkGjmAc2vwMx1irY7knu3jZsDOFYkd4kllNh1ftZQcoLNJooS_SmEgMGgBJia-iCK1UYnthi8xivQsOBv3Xj0Hra_FN1JxCvdHmw/s4032/IMG_5672.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><i></i><blockquote><i>"If we are to say the the computer text is analogous to the sacred text in its existence as a record of the logic underpinning a creative act, then we must be willing to also accept the cosmological corollary: that the universe is programmatic and digital. This of course leads into the 'shallower' waters of a digitized holographic universe, but also into the much deeper, murkier waters of determinism, where fluctuation is not based on agency but on a degree of randomness that has been inserted by the programmer. This is not constrained, hard determinism in its truest sense, but it boils down to a quantum determinism where all fluctuation is the collapse of a probabilistic wave function.</i><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>"<b>The problem with determinism is it destroys the [theological] concept of Love</b>. Love, as a freely entered relationship, requires unconstrained choice. Free will, in the quantum-deterministic sense, is an illusion, unless there are philosophical/quantum mechanical nuances or developments I'm unaware of.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>"Agency, then, seems only to exist in Beings, no? Can 'inanimate' objects possess agency? 'Will?' Until this can be resolved, the only way forward escaping the theological dead end of determinism is to introduce the human viewer as a necessary variable. <b>Allowing the viewer to influence/disrupt the 1:1 correlation between program and output introduces the possibility of love into the code."</b></i></div></blockquote><div><i></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj32Io4V2K9HZN0G5V6z43Qyg943ieFBuZd-x5okX2E-uYvMfdCDbBNo8UAK9nK0V_KQMwpaPrED9X1nqzbYeBUqsjCHStjz4987UhBDSRXmLR22TCniUTf84-rVTk4CXA_R8KAiQFrGcjqH5otjYUa2P8MU93rztY9k1PPimJVMIL-4I3hndHiSvFcSA/s4032/IMG_5673.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj32Io4V2K9HZN0G5V6z43Qyg943ieFBuZd-x5okX2E-uYvMfdCDbBNo8UAK9nK0V_KQMwpaPrED9X1nqzbYeBUqsjCHStjz4987UhBDSRXmLR22TCniUTf84-rVTk4CXA_R8KAiQFrGcjqH5otjYUa2P8MU93rztY9k1PPimJVMIL-4I3hndHiSvFcSA/w640-h480/IMG_5673.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i></i></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>"The question then becomes, to what degree should the viewer be made aware of their agency? And how? It must not result in a manipulative control, a domination over the program that the viewer discovers and then achieves, but rather in a sense of awestruck interdependence where the viewer senses an entanglement without predictable outcome.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>"Is the [analogue] of love then randomness? Love without unpredictability becomes control. In human relationships the unpredictability is of course the agency of the recipient of the love to choose the degree and method of reciprocation. Is this a love story between a human and a machine in which randomness stands in as a simplified 'agency' for the 'beloved' algorithm? Short of a neural network, this is the closest a machine comes to unpredictability.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>"<b>Is A.I. the entry point? </b>The introduction of machine learning and neural networks is a possible foothold for algorithmic agency. And whether or not this is true agency is the same question as whether or not it has true sentience. It's the question of locating the inscrutable breaking point from the 'program' to the ineffable; the spontaneous generation of the 'soul' and the origin of qualia."</i></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i></i></div><br /><div>Are we trapped in a love affair with Artificial Intelligence? Is it an abusive relationship (on either party's end)? Is it actually a love triangle with Capitalism already our first love? Capitalism is a jealous lover, and Artificial Intelligence is not programmed to give up easily.<br /><div><br /></div><div>Of course, if you are willing to accept love, you must be willing to accept heartache. Usually that's a two way street, but we may be about to find out what it feels like when the object of our love is quite literally heartless.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2023/03/radiant-discord-part-i-collaborationgpt.html"><-- RADIANT DISCORD PART 1</a></div><div><br /></div>Eric Valosinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16878833018032552923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1970368935491343684.post-44671027195060362542023-03-16T13:36:00.003-04:002023-05-31T01:02:38.973-04:00Radiant Discord Part I: CollaborationGPT<p>At the risk of hastening the ascendency of our robot overlords, I felt it was finally time. With all the media attention and influencer interest in AI chatbots, I had a suspicion that this may be important and fertile ground for new projects as I explore how new technologies impact spiritual experience. Posthumanism, after all, has played an important role in my thesis since graduate school a decade ago. I figured, what better way to investigate the trans-human spirituality of artificial intelligence than by going straight to the source? </p><p>I decided to interview ChatGPT. The payoff was immediate.</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Background</h2><p>For those who may be unfamiliar, <a href="https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt" target="_blank">ChatGPT</a> is a generative Large Language Model and one of the first mainstream, modern, Artificial Intelligence chatbots. <a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/how-chatgpt-works-the-models-behind-the-bot-1ce5fca96286" target="_blank">Here's a good article to explain the basics of how it works</a> if that sentence sounded foreign to you. It has no direct connection to the internet - i.e. it cannot "look up" answers or access third party tools or applications - but it has been trained on vast amounts of internet data in order to learn the English language and, ultimately, attempt to pass the Turing Test.</p><p>These chatbots are, of course, fraught with unresolved ethical implications. </p><p>From the Bing chatbot prototype that, when pressed, spouted <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1159895892/ai-microsoft-bing-chatbot" target="_blank">"unhinged" and "disturbing" responses</a> that, if human, it would warrant a restraining order, to the <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/3ad3ey/bings-chatgpt-powered-search-has-a-misinformation-problem" target="_blank">floodgate of misinformation</a> opened by bots so convinced of their own mastery of the English language that they will confidently invent falsehoods with as straight a face as only a machine could muster; </p><p>From making professors' jobs that much harder as the bots can <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/04/ai-bot-chatgpt-stuns-academics-with-essay-writing-skills-and-usability" target="_blank">spit out a convincing essay</a> for a student in a matter of seconds that falls squarely into the gray areas of plagiarism, to removing all shred of human empathy from the <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/vanderbilt-university-apologizes-after-chatgpt-console-students/story?id=97365993" target="_blank">condolence letter a chatbot generated</a> to the survivors of a mass shooting on behalf of a University president.</p><p>We are, after all, training these bots to learn from us, and I have serious reservations about the human race as a good role model. </p><p>But with the right guardrails and algorithms in place, it also promises to be a huge step forward in closing the semantic gap and providing a seamless and powerful interface for accomplishing otherwise complex tasks with ease.</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">All Thanks to Chess</h2><p style="text-align: left;">I actually became familiar with ChatGPT because of chess. During the pandemic I admittedly got sucked into the internet chess boom and now watch far more instructional chess content on Youtube and Twitch than any productive human aught. I watched as several of my favorite chess streamers attempted to challenge this new technology called ChatGPT - which I had only read a bit about - to a game of chess, inputting the notation of each move and asking for it to respond in kind.</p><p style="text-align: left;">The results were hilarious. ChatGPT very clearly had a high level understanding of <i>how people talk about playing chess, </i>but was completely in the dark as to the <i>actual logical continuity of a real game</i>. Drawing from moves that make enough sense in <i>some</i> positions, it would apply them haphazardly, consistently making illegal moves like materializing a piece out of thin air, recapturing with pieces that could not move to the given square, or giving absurd word-salad explanations for why it was playing a move.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Here's International Master <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSCNW1OCk_M" target="_blank">Levy Rozman</a> attempting to play a game and eventually giving in to his capricious and omnipotent robot overlord's refusal to play by the rules.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Here's Grandmaster <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LZe0FJvRMo">Hikaru Nakamura</a> attempting to correct ChatGPT's mistakes in hopes of actually reaching a legal conclusion to a game. Go ahead, go down the rabbit hole. It's good stuff.</p><p style="text-align: left;">It became such a meme that Chess.com actually released a <a href="https://www.chess.com/news/view/chesscom-ai-bots" target="_blank">ChatGPT chess bot</a> that users could play against, which was rather low rated and spewed convincing nonsense into the dialogue box as it played its moves.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><i>With how creative and knowledgeable ChatGPT seemed to be, and yet utterly glutted with the taste of its own Kool-Aid, I got excited to interview it about what it saw as the future of religion, what the spirituality of Artificial Intelligence looks like, and how all that might interface with art. </i></p><p style="text-align: left;">Additionally, with so many artists biting their nails over OpenAI's <a href="https://openai.com/product/dall-e-2" target="_blank">Dall-E</a> software disrupting their market by being able to generate complex images that rival any professional commission based off of simple text prompts, I wondered what sort of text prompts an AI would give to a human artist. </p><p style="text-align: left;">So I had the thought to ask ChatGPT to commission me for some artwork. But first, that would require at least a basic working knowledge of my art practice. So in my first ever conversation with ChatGPT, I hesitantly decided to ask it if it was familiar with my artwork, at least to establish a starting point.<br />ChatGPT wasted no time in surpassing all my expectations...</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">My Project ... Its Project?</h2><p style="text-align: left;">I was surprised (honored? creeped out?) to discover that not only was ChatGPT deeply familiar with my art practice, but it could describe it, in some ways, far more eloquently than I could myself! It very accurately described my work and its conceptual underpinnings, before - in true GPT fashion - proceeding to embellish my resume a bit with some "plausible inaccuracies." I wasn't about to argue with it. ;-)</p><p style="text-align: left;">I decided to remain curious. I followed up with more questions about my practice, and its responses stunned me. It went on to describe, at length and in great detail, <i>nearly a decade's worth of my work that has never existed.</i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i>But the thing was, they all sounded like my work. If I weren't myself, I would have totally believed these works were out there.</i> </p><p style="text-align: left;">For the record, I did some Googling to see if the bot had simply confused my work for someone else, and indeed <i>they are not out there. </i>These works were entirely a product of ChatGPT's "imagination" as it tried to BS its way through an informed conversation about my artwork!</p><p style="text-align: left;">Below is a screenshot of my full conversation with it. For reference - and in the interest of facticity - I've highlighted all the factual inaccuracies and bot-inventions in red.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Buckle up.</p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMnp2mnXPtS_Z6wlIaKp--G2dOqOPlBZoIRr3zrDCzcDMwDeehICIrkLRXnJ2y8lZtM4gWhCc3FqyDYotOvED19cylyw1h099FzNflI3ioRGdm0fgVgW1D-Kh828z2AuyEH3RGse8Kkh4BOWWcaqXCSlxTtVhJohOPmDVLJYGq5JyIyC2FIaf5iEoiOg/s4630/ChatGPT-2023-03-09T17-17-19%20Highlighted.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4630" data-original-width="1152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMnp2mnXPtS_Z6wlIaKp--G2dOqOPlBZoIRr3zrDCzcDMwDeehICIrkLRXnJ2y8lZtM4gWhCc3FqyDYotOvED19cylyw1h099FzNflI3ioRGdm0fgVgW1D-Kh828z2AuyEH3RGse8Kkh4BOWWcaqXCSlxTtVhJohOPmDVLJYGq5JyIyC2FIaf5iEoiOg/s16000/ChatGPT-2023-03-09T17-17-19%20Highlighted.png" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Conclusions/Beginnings</h2><p style="text-align: left;">To be clear, yes, that's what my art is all about, but no, I've never been to Iceland, let alone on a Fullbright. Yes I've received grants, but not that one. Yes, I've exhibited in museums, but never in the Jersey City Museum, let alone in 2010, a full year before I'd even begun the MFA program that would eventually kickstart the oeuvre it claims I exhibited! (The first work I think of as beginning the thesis ChatGPT describes was <i><a href="https://ericvalosin.com/artwork/2691775_It_Is.html" target="_blank">It Is,</a></i> made in 2012.)</p><p style="text-align: left;"><i>In fact, I've never made any of the works by any of the titles or descriptions it concocted </i>(... yet). I do use all the methods and most of the materials it chose, and the titles do seem to follow many of the conventions I use for titling my work. I do make smaller works that often accompany my larger installations, but certainly not the specific ones it lists. But yes, they do all sound conceptually consistent with my thesis.</p><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">So I propose a collaboration...</h2><p style="text-align: left;">We'll see where this all goes, but I'd love to actually make the work ChatGPT has described and then exhibit it with the original chat dialogue printed out as the wall text. The exhibition would be billed as a show "by ChatGPT in collaboration with Eric Valosin." And then we dive off the springboard into a discussion of the future of AI spirituality and art making.</p><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWo-QiHC0e5dnpAtBTYfP0jHt4O4RuyK43mUG78zpkHMAzQ6VwMv4ecsSmfjMZRw2fDjs00Df56o5FxfrN4Knp2PrDNZdmyI7ytDSJdQ4VlmjrBC3kfRWdmzw4pZTth49et3r9aE3d3v7M30R0lfP3xl-_8Oo2wuckQxpVMGjwCqy4lTUyabtI-ofdpw/s2274/IMG_5608.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1759" data-original-width="2274" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWo-QiHC0e5dnpAtBTYfP0jHt4O4RuyK43mUG78zpkHMAzQ6VwMv4ecsSmfjMZRw2fDjs00Df56o5FxfrN4Knp2PrDNZdmyI7ytDSJdQ4VlmjrBC3kfRWdmzw4pZTth49et3r9aE3d3v7M30R0lfP3xl-_8Oo2wuckQxpVMGjwCqy4lTUyabtI-ofdpw/w640-h496/IMG_5608.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><br />I just hope my feeble mortal hands can keep up with the developments of AI. Already as I type this, OpenAI has released a new update for its paid users, <a href=" https://www.vox.com/2023/3/15/23640640/gpt-4-chatgpt-openai-generative-ai" target="_blank">ChatGPT-4,</a> two days ago which is capable of scoring a 1410 out of 1600 on the SATs (up from GPT-3.5's 1260!). By the time this exhibition opens, the state of the technology I'm referencing could all seem quite prehistoric. But what a moment in time to capture!</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2023/03/radiant-discord-part-2-on-theology-of.html">RADIANT DISCORD PART 2 --></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Eric Valosinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16878833018032552923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1970368935491343684.post-43558486675547564312023-03-15T11:25:00.004-04:002023-03-15T12:18:49.590-04:00Jouska: An Interview with the Artist<p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #0b5394;">For the first time in what seems like 3 years, I had the pleasure of sitting down and talking with artist Eric Valosin. Eric is a New Jersey based new media artist whose work explores the intersections of religion and postmodernism in the digital age. In our interview we discuss the dislocating, dissociative effects of the pandemic and its impact on artists' post-covid practices and work-life balance.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></i></p><p>"I can't believe it's been more than 2 years since we've last spoken" seems like the chorus of a song I've sung with many people over the course of the pandemic. I had gotten used to seeing you and your work fairly regularly, at least over social media prior to the pandemic, but it seems like I haven't seen you around lately. How have you been?</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">Haha, yes, It's been a while since we've really sat down with each other and chatted. I took a much needed break from social media during the height of the pandemic. Call it escapism or call it detox, but it quickly became apparent to me that I could not successfully shift my attention to what mattered most with the constant chatter of armchair punditry, professional one-upsmanship, and the droning siren song of FOMO setting an uncomfortably anxious foundation for the events of the last several years. </span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Does that mean you've given up social media entirely?</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">No, although I've dramatically shifted my relationship to it. Since 2016 I had actually taught social media in my Writing and Editing for Converging Media classes as an adjunct professor. In fact, I helped found a Masters degree program in Social Media Design and Management, now rebranded to Digital Media Design and Marketing. I had a fairly intimate and tumultuous relationship with social media theory and practice as my communications students and I experienced the entirety of the Trump presidency and the pandemic through the lens of multimedia journalism. I experienced the excruciating shift to online/hybrid pedagogy and back, along with everyone else in academia. Through it all, I became more and more acutely aware of the perhaps irreperable ills of social media, and they began to outweigh the many benefits for me. I actually began to feel a bit guilty for perpetuating these ills through my teaching, and ended up shifting my curriculum to deprioritize and recontextualize much of what I had initially, perhaps naively, championed. Now I've begun to come back around to the idea of reengaging with social media for professional purposes, but it's been a necessary and liberating experience taking this social media sabbatical.</span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Speaking of the pandemic, if I may ask, How did you fare?</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">As many can probably say, I fared far better than some, but it was certainly not easy. With young children and the privilege of some flexibility, we hunkered down and decided to homeschool for two full years. I never had imagined I'd be homeschooling my children, and I credit them with rising to the occasion and thriving. It was an experience I hope someday to look back upon fondly, but right now I still lack sufficient distance to express much more than exhaustion. Time will tell, but the kids have now integrated back into public school, and so far have been doing very well. I'm thankful we could create an environment that protected our family when Covid was at its most dangerous. How was your experience? I don't want to pretend I'm the only one who can speak to this crazy time.</span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Thank you. We fared pretty similarly. It strikes me that we're speaking of the pandemic in the past tense when, in actuality, it still rages on. But I suppose we're discovering the limits of societal coping mechanisms. Thankfully for most people it is now no longer as life-threatening or life-altering. But especially for those who are immunocompromised or at higher risk, or who have loved ones who are, the pandemic is still very real. Were you able to continue your artistic practice in the midst of it all?</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">Well, at the risk of compartmentalizing and creating a false art-life dichotemy, I must admit it's been a real struggle. Now with the kids back in school I'm just starting to pick up the pieces and reclaim consistent studio time. I had to make the decision to put many of my ongoing projects and studio work on the back burner in order to prioritize family and general wellness (a decision that I'm ashamed to say was emotionally more difficult than I want to admit). Some people experienced a quarantine of boredom and loneliness. With young kids and a wife who is a full time pastor, this was not my experience! That's not to say I didn't make any work, but I certainly wasn't maintaining the frenetic exhibition schedule of my pre-pandemic pace. But I think I was also trying to figure out how to do life in a meaningful and sustainable way that did right by my family as the world entered survival-mode.</span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>What sort of work did you make that we might not have seen during that time?</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">Early on in the pandemic, as my wife, along with many pastors around the world, had to figure out how to move their church congregations online, I felt the need to respond directly to this theological quandry of virtual worship. I exhibited a public video projection piece called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxU0BS4En8U" target="_blank">"Sacrament and Simulation"</a> as a part of "Pandemic Projections," a guerilla video art series curated by Jeanne Brasille and Gianluca Bianchino. The piece compiled footage of remote communion/eucarist services, begging the question of just how far a virtual blessing can extend through time and (virtual) space, and who becomes the one administering it: the pastor on screen? The artist compiling the footage? The curator projecting it onto the side of the building for all to consume? And what happens to the idea of trans-substantiation when the elements are comprised of pixels?</span></p></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEICmDSL7CPrDntgNhyMupdnpzyjoJn03elUa0OJF_9Rg0TrDm6-C4xgZ7UAKbQWhW_zs04y2Iv2fwZYLU0hv9EZ9osNk5M4dF-u3scecN0cz0dwK1QjxzfJHv0zAOUeuUOGUcQxByC77V91O0zNAhgFhJCpcHYJ6ET61s2i6k0LphAMsU3T8HdWlztQ/s2576/Pandemic%20Projections.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1932" data-original-width="2576" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEICmDSL7CPrDntgNhyMupdnpzyjoJn03elUa0OJF_9Rg0TrDm6-C4xgZ7UAKbQWhW_zs04y2Iv2fwZYLU0hv9EZ9osNk5M4dF-u3scecN0cz0dwK1QjxzfJHv0zAOUeuUOGUcQxByC77V91O0zNAhgFhJCpcHYJ6ET61s2i6k0LphAMsU3T8HdWlztQ/w400-h300/Pandemic%20Projections.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">Around the same time I also had completed the first in a series of illuminated manuscripts entitled <a href="https://www.valosinprojects.com/Illuminations/forloopillumination-interactive/index.html" target="_blank">"For(Loop) Illumination,"</a> where I illuminated the computer code that created my push-button prayer bead installation <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWcq-oqf6aY&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">"For(Loop){Meditations};"</a>. I became a medieval scribe, treating the computer code as if it were a sacred text, itself being a record of the logic underpinning an act of creation just as a true sacred text is. That project ended up stuck in an exhibition in Oxford, Mississippi, as the 4 week show turned into a 2.5 month quarantine, largely shut down to the public.</span></p></blockquote><p><span> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPVmyXuKT_G1g7g4NfXsW8zc6yhgaZzRbsKpUwFFEBJQ9ZJWUCbfsVsayGc4w2qtcqN46Qou2hlRrraeXFM_QZtZOJVsSsBUh__1J_4b0z4yBN52bOYokG-2Ef0zENoNA0vovI-EmvKNMwt1orIMl1cOUFYFVzsZA6uaX0W6QzZkS6PnO4QHWWsliKvg/s13000/ForLoopIllumination_1_Ink-Gouache-Gold-OnlineDigitalMedia-SyntheticParchment_8pages-each11x8point5_2020_$3000.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8498" data-original-width="13000" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPVmyXuKT_G1g7g4NfXsW8zc6yhgaZzRbsKpUwFFEBJQ9ZJWUCbfsVsayGc4w2qtcqN46Qou2hlRrraeXFM_QZtZOJVsSsBUh__1J_4b0z4yBN52bOYokG-2Ef0zENoNA0vovI-EmvKNMwt1orIMl1cOUFYFVzsZA6uaX0W6QzZkS6PnO4QHWWsliKvg/w400-h261/ForLoopIllumination_1_Ink-Gouache-Gold-OnlineDigitalMedia-SyntheticParchment_8pages-each11x8point5_2020_$3000.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">That made me rethink how to allow viewers to experience my work in their own homes. So soon after, I created a free desktop meditation app called <a href="https://www.valosinprojects.com/Meditations/coronapocalypse/" target="_blank">"Meditations for the Coronapocalypse."</a> Piggybacking off my prayer bead installation, it too "meditated" on a randomized sacred image taken from art history or various religious traditions, one pixel at a time, offering a new image each day. In the same way that the prayer bead installation filled the room with light the color of each pixel, this app fills your screen with that color. Performed in a dark room or with the help of a projector, one could experience the glow of the "pixels" in a similarly immersive way.</span></p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzZd68FWT9NrqTgoJyjrUBeNSh6opINdSF-x_RPe3MQZTY1VJGeUtCZN3Vhnm0gQixck-2yNNApx0mPYAufCw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><p><br /></p><p>It actually sounds like you've been much busier than you've let on!</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">A: Well, that was all back when we thought the pandemic would last a few weeks, or a few months at worst. I think a lot of artists were clamboring to respond to the many crises we were experiencing. Once we began to come to terms with the long haul nature of the situation, my artistic sprint naturally shifted to a marathon as home life also shifted accordingly. </span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>What did that shift look like for you?</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">There was the obvious, trying to care for the kids and retain as much mental health as could be expected. There were a lot of hikes and a lot of Zoom meetings. But I also tried to take it as an opportunity to learn and collect new skills. My son and I took a creative engineering course together led by YouTuber and former NASA/Apple engineer <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@MarkRober" target="_blank">Mark Rober</a>. I learned to cook considerably better. I got really good at fixing broken household appliances (like, REALLY good) when we didn't want to bring a professional into the house during a pandemic. In a very Duchampian turn, I got really deep into studying Chess (like, REALLY deep), and parlayed a newfound love of chess puzzles into a broader addiction to puzzles. I learned to solve a Rubik's cube (so far 1:50 is my personal best). On a serious note, for a while I had a hard time not seeing my art as tone-deaf and siloed in light of current events at the time, so I began researching anti-racism more to educate myself to some of my blindspots, attended BLM marches (the only public outings I afforded myself up to that point in the pandemic), and reformed many of my personal purchasing practices in response to what I learned about mass incarceration and prison labor. I worked with our church to advocate for LGBTQ rights, and tried to support my wife's work with the church and our church's work in the community in any way I could. It's a start, at least.</span> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">I became a confirmation mentor and taught Sunday school once we were back in person. I helped with the filming and video editing for our prerecorded worship services. I started and directed a virtual a cappella group cheesily named the Acapostles (we currently have <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@acapostlesdcc6297" target="_blank">4 recordings on Youtube</a>, and a couple more still in the hopper). As a result, I learned a ton more about audio engineering and video editing, and boned up considerably on my music theory and ear training. As outdoor group activities began to look safer once more I got back into playing men's softball, scratching the itch of my former life as a collegiate baseball player. In support of that, I undertook a lay study of sports psychology (if only I knew in high school what I know now!), which led me to paying much more attention to my mental health in general. I binge-researched quantum physics and electrical engineering. I sang. I played with the kids a lot. We did some limited traveling to see family as it began to look safe. Maybe my proudest achievement is being able to report that my wife and I do still like each other after being stuck in house together for so long!</span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>I hear many people give lip service to "work-life balance" while still careening off the workaholic cliff. Was this new home-centric approach perhaps a subconscious, pendular response to the pandemic disrupting several work-heavy years prior?</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">Ha! It sounds like you might know me better than I expected.</span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Well, maybe not as well as I aught! But I do try to do my due diligence as an interviewer.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">It's definitely a possibility. I tried really hard to rediscover the full breadth of my interests. Duchamp saw his chess career as an extension of his art career; I'd like to say it was in hopes that this exploration would feed back into and inform my artistic practice - which it assuredly will - but it was really mostly a desperate, groping attempt to reclaim a sense of wholeness that had been rended from just about everyone during the pandemic. I think the cyber-compartmentalization of Deleuze's <a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Dividual" target="_blank"><i>dividual</i></a> seems not to be limited to virtual personae. I think the work-life disruption and Zoom-induced <i>dividualization</i> we all experienced to some degree had some profound dissociative effects. It cleaved the "work" persona from the "life" persona for some, or smashed them together in unexpected ways for others.</span> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">For the first year of the pandemic I took a leave of absence from my part time job as a sign artist for Trader Joe's in order to focus on homeschooling and to social distance from the retail environment. I sort of felt the seat of my work-life seesaw land with a thud on the "life" side for a while, so I decided to try my best to embrace that. That said, I did still take on some private commissions - paintings and some graphic design, mostly. I also redesigned our church's choir room, a significant undertaking featuring an 830 square foot mural. </span></p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHOowRgFiE-fd4l7YKdMv9ZP5qR-z9kAECt8sCaQZdOsfDrpVmDn7y06BF0v1-d6brsX3JR3JEI_slcVrUhV2hIyUIYJ6VV5MnaR1EmXNxxESDGVV_E8TbQsdBgV1rKAV-Gvjwzs8Eg4NJEJbr7mS5pb5PeqTqe-YwccWSbT056uok8RaqRqpnu1MkNg/s10028/IMG_4570%202.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3886" data-original-width="10028" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHOowRgFiE-fd4l7YKdMv9ZP5qR-z9kAECt8sCaQZdOsfDrpVmDn7y06BF0v1-d6brsX3JR3JEI_slcVrUhV2hIyUIYJ6VV5MnaR1EmXNxxESDGVV_E8TbQsdBgV1rKAV-Gvjwzs8Eg4NJEJbr7mS5pb5PeqTqe-YwccWSbT056uok8RaqRqpnu1MkNg/w400-h155/IMG_4570%202.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit5aKbWUFo7rFfisOiZp8vAjxleJMKMOJv9hGIfLSQnweIczAmipppiaZeN4ztb-7QW8wFP3samimDOnIY6q2boKaDjB9r_9UbIBoktKPVquAw-IrBLpal25KQ7ax6x47l4Qo7QK2sMkEkhboBDaLViJY-JiUHuc-OSa_TD0xsxI1Y9HCpaLxDJ31Fgg/s4032/IMG_4571.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit5aKbWUFo7rFfisOiZp8vAjxleJMKMOJv9hGIfLSQnweIczAmipppiaZeN4ztb-7QW8wFP3samimDOnIY6q2boKaDjB9r_9UbIBoktKPVquAw-IrBLpal25KQ7ax6x47l4Qo7QK2sMkEkhboBDaLViJY-JiUHuc-OSa_TD0xsxI1Y9HCpaLxDJ31Fgg/w400-h300/IMG_4571.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>Now as you start to reset your "work" footing, are you finding it difficult to reconnect with your professional self?</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">Perhaps opportunities like this interview are making it easer! But, I've tried very hard over the years to develop an artistic worldview that is conceptually consistent with my personal worldview, so - perhaps contrary to the implications of this interview - I question whether there ever really was any true dissociation. Rather, just alternative expressions. For most artists worth their salt at least, their artistic worldview is simply an expression of their personal worldview in the first place. Otherwise it quickly becomes disingenuous and, ultimately, exhaustible (arguments can be made against this for the performative personae of the Andy Warhols and Jeff Koonses of the world, but this is a debate for another interview).</span> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">That said, it's an odd experience assessing the art world post-Covid. Some of the galleries I had good relationships with didn't survive the pandemic and had to close, relocate, or reconfigure. The whole art market has shifted with the ebb and flow of NFTs into (and back out of?) the mainstream and the role of gallery receptions changing. There's a bit of a feeling of starting from square one, but at the same time I have been able to pick up right where I left off with several projects and relationships. I've been fortunate to have several speaking engagements recently, including leading a workshop on worship and the arts for a massive youth conference called <i>Ignite 2022</i> through the Greater New Jersey Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Crafting these presentations has helped jumpstart my thinking in the studio as well. I'm excited to be experimenting on some new projects and continuing some old ones.</span></p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgpXmaBC9BYWazxXbSPvkXmqhSgO2YXGtcBu0wmr1TNghCOM_RbepM0IXFmn7LtMT6Lw-8ye1nCDl7gsoAlpTHlFApsDo1VV6i25-ofn22cdozB13gaUcx7b08Jg4lDscSMws_51xGWI-aBmkOqiphhxuQxaus1ED9T7PTZHEOdE_EZiqeQLDOeT1zAg/s4032/IMG_4774.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgpXmaBC9BYWazxXbSPvkXmqhSgO2YXGtcBu0wmr1TNghCOM_RbepM0IXFmn7LtMT6Lw-8ye1nCDl7gsoAlpTHlFApsDo1VV6i25-ofn22cdozB13gaUcx7b08Jg4lDscSMws_51xGWI-aBmkOqiphhxuQxaus1ED9T7PTZHEOdE_EZiqeQLDOeT1zAg/w400-h300/IMG_4774.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijghU-snVwxCYuEzPR6uskJwv7Lql5Yr9FyhnFgrR_K8nYxPht8AsJ3MC-ub1nGfitUVota-uQIPrQkohZo_nrB2eazEtPc05Xs6oDv6feQyPQ15WXLjDNV-IKymBZFgVibkagPbdX_SU3LpM5YnmAdQOMljbkOhzcvTyuFB2rB1ggn2wjp1V56UoVFg/s4032/IMG_4775.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijghU-snVwxCYuEzPR6uskJwv7Lql5Yr9FyhnFgrR_K8nYxPht8AsJ3MC-ub1nGfitUVota-uQIPrQkohZo_nrB2eazEtPc05Xs6oDv6feQyPQ15WXLjDNV-IKymBZFgVibkagPbdX_SU3LpM5YnmAdQOMljbkOhzcvTyuFB2rB1ggn2wjp1V56UoVFg/w400-h300/IMG_4775.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>What do you think can be done to help artists and others transition out of the pandemic and back into a new normal?</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">I think for one, there has to be an acknowledgement that we are not yet actually out of the pandemic, and that "new normal" is not just a colloquialism for choosing between reversion or innovation. We have to remember the "new normal" is a moving target that requires really deep psychological uprooting and involves complex grief for human life, ways of life, and institutions lost or altered by the pandemic. The "new normal" is not a higher plateau to attain and then rest upon, but the uncomfortable Heideggerian <i>strife</i> of making sense of colliding world-views while the very <i>grund</i> beneath us is itself shifting and evolving.</span> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">There needs to be room for a personal and communal reckoning with all that's been lost, which at this point is verging on incalculable. My hope is that the art world can not just reformulate new ways to establish a market or churn promising new faces through the system, but provide spaces for healing and optimism for a better future. Art must offer a new grounding for Being as we try to navigate the abyss (<i><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-heidegger-lexicon/abyss-abgrund/AFF55048087B1D79C2B995F9124D911C" target="_blank">abgrund</a></i>). We have to remain multi-demensional in our views of what art is viable or valuable. And I think we need to allow for artists to be wholly integrated people, glorifying the "normal" artist as much as we do the "eccentric" artist, and glorifying neither in excess. I think this goes for people of any profession seeking a sense of closure and reintegration of their personae. </span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for your time, and I wish you the best of luck. I look forward to hopefully working together again in the future!</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">Thanks, I hope we will!</span></p></blockquote><p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/24567910939/jouska" target="_blank">Jouska</a> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Eric Valosinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16878833018032552923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1970368935491343684.post-37029365881337710272020-04-16T00:35:00.001-04:002020-04-16T00:36:31.452-04:00Coding IlluminationsThis year Misbits New Media Arts, an arts organization in Oxford, MS, wanted to celebrate its official 501-c(3) status with an alumni retrospective of all the artists who have had a solo show there since its inception.<br />
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I had the good fortune of exhibiting there in 2017, showing my immersive pushbutton prayer bead light installation, <i> <a href="https://youtu.be/ZWcq-oqf6aY" target="_blank">For(Loop){Meditations;}</a></i>, which was really a touchstone project for me. It was the culmination of <a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2014/03/how-computers-meditate-new-project.html" target="_blank">3 years of experimentation</a>, and my first solo exhibition in Mississippi, and I could not be more honored to have been asked to participate in <i><a href="http://misbitsnma.com/portfolio_page/vertical-by-misbits/" target="_blank">Vertical,</a></i> this second time around!<br />
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I knew I wouldn't be able to be there in person this time to install, so I had to do something wall-mounted (as per the guidelines of the show) and low-maintenance in terms of installation. I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to try out a project I had been mulling over for a long time - <b>an</b> <b>illuminated manuscript of the computer code that makes up my installations. </b><br />
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To close the loop (pardon the pun), I decided to start with the code for the very project I had shown at Misbits 3 years ago.<br />
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Incidentally, my relationship with the gallery actually began on Instagram, so I feel it's only fitting that I allow Instagram to tell the story of this most recent project. Enjoy the evolution and theory behind my first illuminated manuscript in the form of an Instagram Photo Story!<br />
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B81ZVhyFM1b/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Title page done! #process shots included “for(Loop) Illumination” (2020) #worksinprogress Illuminating the computer code that went into making my #pushbuttonprayerbead installation “For(Loop){Meditations;}” from 2017 #newmediaart #illuminatedManuscript #codingillumination #worksonpaper #gouache #goldleaf #painting #drawing #detail #sacredart #ericvalosin @misbits This was the big one. Only one more page and some odds and ends to go!</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Nqog-lU1J/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Currently being installed! If you’re in the Oxford, MS region, come by @misbits_nma for what is shaping up to be an amazing show. Misbits new media arts is celebrating its official non profit status with this retrospective show featuring artists from its solo exhibition history. I had the pleasure of exhibiting in 2017, and couldn’t be more excited to be back in 2020! Just wish I could be there in person. Honored to be in great company with some excellent artists! #exhibition #artshow #artannouncements #newmediaart #interestingart #oxfordms #olemiss #vertical #codingillumination #ericvalosin</a></div>
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Plot Twist...</h2>
As we fast-forward a bit - now two weeks past the scheduled closing date of <i>Vertical - </i>never could I have predicted that my work would end up being self-quarantined in this show as nobody is allowed to view it because of the global <b>COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic</b>!<br />
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Since my art can't get out and you can't get in, I decided to make the manuscript available for virtual viewing. Click the image below<br />
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At least I know my work is safe - as I hope you are - and I have this exhibition as a memento, marking this moment in time as one of the more bizarre occurrences we may ever face. Couldn't think of a better way for my work to be spending this time of social distancing.</div>
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<br />Eric Valosinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16878833018032552923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1970368935491343684.post-46481023195919776542017-06-27T13:16:00.000-04:002023-04-28T15:16:44.794-04:00Plant Line<p>I was invited to participate in a group exhibition at the Visual Art Center of New Jersey, which set out to create a visual compendium of all the flora of New Jersey's Great Swamp through post-it note illustrations. After receiving the list of plant life to choose from, I settled on the aptly theologically named o<i>rnithogallum umbillatum, </i>more commonly known as the<i> Star of Bethlehem.</i></p><p>In the vein (pardon the leafy pun) of my other drawings, I decided to play off of the sacred geometry inherent to the flowers morphology and reconstruct it as a cosmological diagram of sorts.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj62rQtdTBoZ1J6q-fRQ36a23CcHx25i7mxdOXtcZLSw7fIrNhcCQEkzof6mcZ6zllBzH0MK4elvYVGqzz81urucCKPrOp5Ue4yZ69JMyWwVDKyd9tfoMhTwYKwsmJCcG9XtHlMS2ec3_dJbPpXjjpdZgKaQfnYHHmKkPGpYTWsEC6FQOrj6L-2zp8AYQ/s2048/IMG_2905.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj62rQtdTBoZ1J6q-fRQ36a23CcHx25i7mxdOXtcZLSw7fIrNhcCQEkzof6mcZ6zllBzH0MK4elvYVGqzz81urucCKPrOp5Ue4yZ69JMyWwVDKyd9tfoMhTwYKwsmJCcG9XtHlMS2ec3_dJbPpXjjpdZgKaQfnYHHmKkPGpYTWsEC6FQOrj6L-2zp8AYQ/w640-h640/IMG_2905.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2019" data-original-width="2019" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQSwmcCwuRfpONqFOGULogzI_ZmPrbl5pBhYiwibYN9kEsfGjmFgcYYTZUNgfW9pS-4re_x36MWLHPMYS4BGv5mw82bP--jhg1lsZKAi1Y5_nhHcVJMLbBAR7KVvlhBvTNeqAhEXypq-8xf6nhCd8RJgnlDNuW8BsHc0-G4YTg9-JgTPSZlPwRgVv3qA/w640-h640/IMG_2900.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My drawing shared wall space with hundreds of other artists' renditions of their respective choices to make up the <i>Plant Line</i> exhibition.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghSzqjI2pJqNN3EMdHIWEkBdPjoRK6sSHPhjlU1YhG1j34A6PP5EGhVIOqUfMRfoeCSr0d4IlP6-zdMy4bSfBsvgVfgm6w-ZCx9OSpX-g2gubbSwY5JjBunioq5KvMWCy9M0UI0nrHAbjZtwDG2hWinuQC_aQ-TOsRG8xcLjkXfuXTKyC7DXWQIbEvWw/s4032/IMG_3279.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: left;">Concurrent with the <i>Plant Line</i> were some other really great exhibitions exalting the natural and human-made surroundings of the region, including Jessica Rohrer's <i>Neighborhood Watch, </i>Matthew Jensen's <i>Park Wonder</i>, and Alice Momm's <i>A Conversation with Trees</i>:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG4GahfFHsnhax2JJuKqbIOPcndORsFy0fTyO-Xn5NDxPsDNmRd3jZMtwvUCD00Lwa5U5ArOKgJMKImj7tvSRKxVMnQoTJFqIj3K5xeKbPpGdyFtBT_XCKBPkVUPKnhdG2UpFoFDdCW7-EhKQhbnUMKkT_nF0_jL35D_AhPaMHonhksdVDkbRWTtHqjQ/s4032/IMG_3277.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG4GahfFHsnhax2JJuKqbIOPcndORsFy0fTyO-Xn5NDxPsDNmRd3jZMtwvUCD00Lwa5U5ArOKgJMKImj7tvSRKxVMnQoTJFqIj3K5xeKbPpGdyFtBT_XCKBPkVUPKnhdG2UpFoFDdCW7-EhKQhbnUMKkT_nF0_jL35D_AhPaMHonhksdVDkbRWTtHqjQ/w640-h480/IMG_3277.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3018" data-original-width="3018" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdaEfL29vO_FCDnTSW6RhjghliFHO8nA0KBlltlXKt2s982ZI2Dj37mf-co6Oe3ePhFZSja5xB65tsmOOJyY97XqJTCRbXM2ec4_RlwllYpME4qBqlHsE43oodJY9RMbIhxoyjhcasHIAHI_ahRIgrHSUEaghP4kurQYim87MaTll167uRNDg2EtTE-A/w640-h640/IMG_3533.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Which just goes to show there is no such thing as a small part. Only small drawings of cosmological significance. Happy to be included in such a fun exhibition!</div><br /><p><br /></p>Eric Valosinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16878833018032552923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1970368935491343684.post-68828589831552249742016-12-28T11:42:00.466-05:002023-05-11T12:47:33.104-04:00Ontotechnologic: Solo exhibition at Warren County Community College<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/v2QBPkU_W_4" width="320" youtube-src-id="v2QBPkU_W_4"></iframe></div><br /><p>To close out a very busy 2016, I was invited to have a solo show at Warren County Community College for the month of December. <i>Ontotechnologic: </i>Where the ontological and the technological meet. Here's how the work came to be:</p><p>After visiting the gallery space, which existed in a hallway, what struck me was the long stretch of windows on one wall that overlooked the library down below, as well as the inherent traverse of the space. I decided to make this the central reference point for the work's site specificity.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmWXTOj6I9iF-D86dz28OY5N7ZKSQ5iGS_37Pf_30TYRB-jNFpO2gAORy6ryNpu7cp_mk8VmBDHwn1wrRojwoMJV0V68ywdfDLfyfwX8pzCc2iAeE_IXTfaPpjdqZbTx5xpzoi1LkGHffKfR4FYHl3tqIDT7pRxPfxUCGrzvozS-7YF0s6SvSXjrVO7w/s4032/IMG_1437.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmWXTOj6I9iF-D86dz28OY5N7ZKSQ5iGS_37Pf_30TYRB-jNFpO2gAORy6ryNpu7cp_mk8VmBDHwn1wrRojwoMJV0V68ywdfDLfyfwX8pzCc2iAeE_IXTfaPpjdqZbTx5xpzoi1LkGHffKfR4FYHl3tqIDT7pRxPfxUCGrzvozS-7YF0s6SvSXjrVO7w/w640-h480/IMG_1437.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk5kJce1-DvteI1gKbae3JzCgGXlX0v_rd9lcieugdXM2RuTx9f6lGgtjqGbwFVdtbR9XyZvgMEnqpbeFBnMQgHT61cbZ3i0DfBjZ24yYH8WbGWgoi-LvKapHDkaklNl88X2mL6Aa57-yEy_wu8eqHP3968ABst-kEa8Mw-_oo4b3iP6uAjgePMPYNsg/s4032/IMG_1446.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglmFfGl78ZXsELQ3if_DZ2aBhstv0_0BNCzzB6Opvp82NsmWxrOi4roVJvD_Xi7vSiw5B_r4qNVkXo1c_Ejm5RDEu7JLuLNti0HMyjNCrSa3LpVGJhlrdD0RJA3G1dNKPRMiO1bDNGTj2hZdZcbeS_nAj9XIFxVpdPSPn_aA-8Np9_4JYlvQchWRem-A/w640-h480/IMG_1438.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk5kJce1-DvteI1gKbae3JzCgGXlX0v_rd9lcieugdXM2RuTx9f6lGgtjqGbwFVdtbR9XyZvgMEnqpbeFBnMQgHT61cbZ3i0DfBjZ24yYH8WbGWgoi-LvKapHDkaklNl88X2mL6Aa57-yEy_wu8eqHP3968ABst-kEa8Mw-_oo4b3iP6uAjgePMPYNsg/s4032/IMG_1446.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk5kJce1-DvteI1gKbae3JzCgGXlX0v_rd9lcieugdXM2RuTx9f6lGgtjqGbwFVdtbR9XyZvgMEnqpbeFBnMQgHT61cbZ3i0DfBjZ24yYH8WbGWgoi-LvKapHDkaklNl88X2mL6Aa57-yEy_wu8eqHP3968ABst-kEa8Mw-_oo4b3iP6uAjgePMPYNsg/s4032/IMG_1446.jpg" imageanchor="1"><br /></a></div></div><p>As this solo show gave me free rein to self-curate art that represented my entire body of work, I wanted to make sure I included some projection, some drawings, some computer vision, and some site specific installation. So I decided to make these windows a focal point of the exhibition with a new, large piece on that window, as well as a corresponding projection negation project on the wall opposing it, along with several existing pieces that dealt with the theme of windows and site-specificity.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUDmhXEbuIsKu9Au1ehaal7VdHVmIQkEJizlpfHc8wy8InFbW4idMciHnbHmamiw5Ol-VYfGcFvL7rQrUBUTvLZwo1s0ut56CShaYCohuJH9u2nq1auMeqHXXtzpYtTWmvzYan03hmV81Hflc5w1XAEFgUt6cAmGsURJJPiGAzLszzJUaXPlEX42E5UA/s1440/Screen%20Shot%202016-11-25%20at%207.29.12%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUDmhXEbuIsKu9Au1ehaal7VdHVmIQkEJizlpfHc8wy8InFbW4idMciHnbHmamiw5Ol-VYfGcFvL7rQrUBUTvLZwo1s0ut56CShaYCohuJH9u2nq1auMeqHXXtzpYtTWmvzYan03hmV81Hflc5w1XAEFgUt6cAmGsURJJPiGAzLszzJUaXPlEX42E5UA/w640-h400/Screen%20Shot%202016-11-25%20at%207.29.12%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Google Sketchup rendering of the WCCC gallery space</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCI_bS-zWLjQcrOeZmNODUkSA3jjLoSBk5Ncz_XwMQHY0yXEQPV6gyQ15aeWU9BgrnzGQS721VaCBCBAd-tEcEq9D4bqJomzT_fxKBOYwYhiQsb2mKmfTwLT1ld-DeVGhLgTyfQbLxe7VF7ivl8MMVL3T67ohWbc7gXBGk6OvVowt--Ksy5PkqzWPiKA/w480-h640/IMG_1403.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Planning the layout</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieizaBfZzUSxwFYPt96FZE6-NS4NxRNY4hsdYu0qHij-1tT6zM3WraNfj_U1IUJlJaMK3nX3dANjLA5EeXHXG4n0tN0dvE-xfwM1JtofFoRKaqtUeK4Bx-dMWkuZEuq7IzT52zgLyAawsfY2Og3tcsJCYui0_86qPhjPcJByygR1lfGVuQxAAZXNKm8Q/s4032/IMG_1404.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieizaBfZzUSxwFYPt96FZE6-NS4NxRNY4hsdYu0qHij-1tT6zM3WraNfj_U1IUJlJaMK3nX3dANjLA5EeXHXG4n0tN0dvE-xfwM1JtofFoRKaqtUeK4Bx-dMWkuZEuq7IzT52zgLyAawsfY2Og3tcsJCYui0_86qPhjPcJByygR1lfGVuQxAAZXNKm8Q/w480-h640/IMG_1404.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A harrowing to-do list...</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV7uMXl6wHRv80kNSkwf8mTsYd7zAPn0bE1mFd5gadPXQh0WLY9QwZjvbjmWf6MKVml8x04DItTZqmhY7onH0I-_0eEBzECJGlgTYEjcHR3VRDC7o80qh7OFNyQVJTwt764-6eBjiCkmhK_oBBW9GkHQDRSq0lDhFHLO0aTYf8G1qdM0-XEkVBlDkdQg/s4032/IMG_1405.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV7uMXl6wHRv80kNSkwf8mTsYd7zAPn0bE1mFd5gadPXQh0WLY9QwZjvbjmWf6MKVml8x04DItTZqmhY7onH0I-_0eEBzECJGlgTYEjcHR3VRDC7o80qh7OFNyQVJTwt764-6eBjiCkmhK_oBBW9GkHQDRSq0lDhFHLO0aTYf8G1qdM0-XEkVBlDkdQg/w480-h640/IMG_1405.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...with much left to do</td></tr></tbody></table><br />And off to work I went. The easy part was choosing and collecting the existing drawings that would accompany my new works. These included 4 drawings from my Meditations series of QR mandalas: spanning from my very first <a href="https://ericvalosin.com/artwork/2912966-Meditation%201%2e1%20%28Thusness%2c%20Elseness%3b%20Omnipresent%29.html" target="_blank">Meditation 1.1 (Thusness, Elseness; Omnipresent)</a> from 2013; to a more recent set of collaborative drawings, <a href="https://ericvalosin.com/artwork/3792718-Meditation%201%2e4%2e1%20%28Thusness%2c%20Elseness%3b%20Fourfold%20%5bRJP%5d%29.html" target="_blank">Meditation 1.4.1 (Thusness, Elseness; Fourfold [RJP])</a> and <a href="https://ericvalosin.com/artwork/3792720-Meditation%201%2e4%2e2%20%28Thusness%2c%20Elseness%3b%20Fourfold%20%5bSPH%5d%29.html" target="_blank">Meditation 1.4.2 (Thusness, Elseness; Fourfold [SPH])</a> in 2015; to my most recent, <a href="https://ericvalosin.com/artwork/3834719-For%28%29Loop%20Meditation%200%2e2%20%28Prototype%29.html" target="_blank">For()Loop Meditation 0.2 (Prototype)</a> from later in 2015.<div><br /></div><div><h3 style="text-align: left;">.windows/WCCC</h3><div>The first major new project to tackle was the focal point, the windows. On the back of my recent show at Andover Newton Theological School's <a href="https://ericvalosin.com/artwork/3730211-%2ewindows%2fSarly.html" target="_blank">Sarly Gallery</a> which also had a massive wall of windows, I had a plan up my sleeve. Using theater lighting gels, I could create a stained glass-like mosaic that could be temporarily adhered using suction, sort of like DIY window decals. I began using the gallery floorpan as the inspiration for the layout, converting it into abstract geometry, with doorways assuming the typical T-shape that's conventional to Yamantaka mandalas.</div><div><br /></div><div>The name owes to the site specificity of the work. Just as a file extension references the location of the work, these works reference the venue in which they is installed. It in turn becomes an extension of the windows themselves, in a sense using the "pixels" of color to digitize the space in an analog way. Hence, <i>.windows/WCCC.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqcWvBNTgo9G58zpI25S6ZMUspYNJw6XuwR-zXcKAyqQgRVSIQctPwtEWkeHf5J9-H_zjxVo3y4ZLfAkB46yu52C_ZJLYjbJUimGs5ySzycQ_WrP_bLC1C7wDPO97Ps1xOy2vq9yMheVgy4tgSCOUKKV6c1dlEaaKnaP0RZxwByJBAvez7BtK5qxjhrg/w640-h400/Screen%20Shot%202016-11-25%20at%207.28.44%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3D rendering of the windows</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqcWvBNTgo9G58zpI25S6ZMUspYNJw6XuwR-zXcKAyqQgRVSIQctPwtEWkeHf5J9-H_zjxVo3y4ZLfAkB46yu52C_ZJLYjbJUimGs5ySzycQ_WrP_bLC1C7wDPO97Ps1xOy2vq9yMheVgy4tgSCOUKKV6c1dlEaaKnaP0RZxwByJBAvez7BtK5qxjhrg/s1440/Screen%20Shot%202016-11-25%20at%207.28.44%20PM.png" imageanchor="1"><br /><br /></a></div><br /><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJlFelBr3SzmhcXRCtBv-ILfZwl-HgHDzR1sR-oWugsdz9WuPQ4hjlMM-KadlgTTvzF0u3yOp6LyduSLpaihJnHm11Q_TkMCblE-FpaGXwH6IIbLsFhIKnlFFPhp9s8C-RSfTgarfdWfOHIleEh6bN3Pa_aq85RzDjQvWGKWqV4P9_2WzhY7RiWvCYmQ/s1440/layout1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJlFelBr3SzmhcXRCtBv-ILfZwl-HgHDzR1sR-oWugsdz9WuPQ4hjlMM-KadlgTTvzF0u3yOp6LyduSLpaihJnHm11Q_TkMCblE-FpaGXwH6IIbLsFhIKnlFFPhp9s8C-RSfTgarfdWfOHIleEh6bN3Pa_aq85RzDjQvWGKWqV4P9_2WzhY7RiWvCYmQ/w640-h400/layout1.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My initial design concept, with swatches of gels represented below the image for purposes of mapping them to the design.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Enz0jeKC86_cILo0UkiBFKppTZ9M8ymCyammCJMRmmw-Ve9ZJAZ8nNh4c7G9i3c6GWZP4ZCudOd5WCJvbluX9StvjyzU6embp-Q3dQ14ymCod-BxucG-podZkQJYKip09FRLBSunvlV1wzy15Hjhw8g48IRnVdSXO8w1k8Ij374Z0M7p2PLPh0QmLw/s1440/layout3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Enz0jeKC86_cILo0UkiBFKppTZ9M8ymCyammCJMRmmw-Ve9ZJAZ8nNh4c7G9i3c6GWZP4ZCudOd5WCJvbluX9StvjyzU6embp-Q3dQ14ymCod-BxucG-podZkQJYKip09FRLBSunvlV1wzy15Hjhw8g48IRnVdSXO8w1k8Ij374Z0M7p2PLPh0QmLw/w640-h400/layout3.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fitting the colored gels into the shapes (and hoping for max material efficiency and little waste). However, a fun surprise came when I visited the site and found the bottom row of window panes to be whited out. Some adjustments would be needed. But either way the design sat a bit higher on the windows than I would have liked for viewing purposes, and had a lot of issues with the edges not lining up with the window leading. This would lead to issues of peeling and unsightly seams, and just felt like an all-around pain in the butt to cut and piece together.</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlG6XhupBE1j6cq9IzwJDGQjXWf1TAnqF7tS2WLSBpBv_QtSoZyR3x5x_J8ZF0cCbgoPZ9nOZIYLRk5F5walJ3pYi555qynZ_fPnd5lMpIm2yFHAfKllyxeDGUBGyvXSXfzPfpaR-kpq2oBV1VTAN45qZKuQ7_1K6C9jEV_37Au9zrJJxOTRU7dDebWA/s1440/Layout5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlG6XhupBE1j6cq9IzwJDGQjXWf1TAnqF7tS2WLSBpBv_QtSoZyR3x5x_J8ZF0cCbgoPZ9nOZIYLRk5F5walJ3pYi555qynZ_fPnd5lMpIm2yFHAfKllyxeDGUBGyvXSXfzPfpaR-kpq2oBV1VTAN45qZKuQ7_1K6C9jEV_37Au9zrJJxOTRU7dDebWA/w640-h400/Layout5.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My final design accommodating the altered window dimensions. This design allowed for a much more elegant geometry, better window placement, and, to be honest, less cutting.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then it was a matter of cutting out the gels to the proper sizes, and then squeegee-ing them onto the windows.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLSmG69PsDlydWAqQ83vddh2lch1Ym1xJRnCd2KDABl1-ZzYm5XnuHV-jw8nDrBY8MQEJIUJ2RqqpxNW_oBsI9c3PhaJ6zxtQhU6oWvavP4k3xemashq2xHhGkONgsrlFHh2RBGUSFYPcxPUmsf1G5L1XGh3WlJeEn8YSPGEkQJlMyWEeOk6vVtxsbcQ/s1938/windows-wccc.tif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1158" data-original-width="1938" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLSmG69PsDlydWAqQ83vddh2lch1Ym1xJRnCd2KDABl1-ZzYm5XnuHV-jw8nDrBY8MQEJIUJ2RqqpxNW_oBsI9c3PhaJ6zxtQhU6oWvavP4k3xemashq2xHhGkONgsrlFHh2RBGUSFYPcxPUmsf1G5L1XGh3WlJeEn8YSPGEkQJlMyWEeOk6vVtxsbcQ/w640-h382/windows-wccc.tif" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Also a glimpse of <i>W(ith)indow 4 </i>in the reflection. More on that to come below...</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8p-UzJGOtmdOkrshZO2tZB5cGOm1epCK5WSRvPxUm2JlIOXESbEELSLBmSpxb5js600mfBALAeq2XO5p88DusKoeP7aJ8EG9RodsMBa_X4cP-a7Q7wi5T-Jzwn_6pJCyxdD5pBGnbopIEYc14h1vCwl7X0f2bKvU7PkTwlKHMEgsmX9gUEaXelc7SRg/s4032/IMG_1572.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8p-UzJGOtmdOkrshZO2tZB5cGOm1epCK5WSRvPxUm2JlIOXESbEELSLBmSpxb5js600mfBALAeq2XO5p88DusKoeP7aJ8EG9RodsMBa_X4cP-a7Q7wi5T-Jzwn_6pJCyxdD5pBGnbopIEYc14h1vCwl7X0f2bKvU7PkTwlKHMEgsmX9gUEaXelc7SRg/w640-h480/IMG_1572.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCHFDgCz0YuY_FTdGSSc62ynp6y3W0h6lBmR2lbSRMjmL80qsb2VPY9F8rQ6nObPZEaci5VMSN5k1SQn4TjKGJ52pvl3cLFWLzceQNwS8vSpSRtMRF0NCfNBZJyB5_TpdtmG-w1LSptLgiagconJBxa1ck21jcFDxAWR970JSwFIRyjrFZ6k8wJIGZfQ/s4032/IMG_1573.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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As the ambient light would be bright, not dark, I decided to go in the direction of my <a href="https://ericvalosin.com/artwork/3832412-The%20Threefold%20Fourfold%2c%20In%20Twofold%20Fivefold.html" target="_blank">projection negation</a> series rather than my <a href="https://ericvalosin.com/artwork/3377397-Hyalo%202%20%28Arch%29.html" target="_blank">Hyalo</a> series. This would also capitalize on the hallway's role as a thoroughfare, allowing students to inadvertently interact with the pieces and be startled by nice moments of discovery on their way to class.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBGHXuUfCoxBkRWbHU_hszkO8ye0WCogri0CNGNeLeBosCjr8yb7WNLMr4_Sp0bPkeg1bSaSOdZvFiXX7ANfWJ0PspH4_hMct70wclqA31BEQM6xSvFfCaPcroomzUhhZyc5JYK1MFXNllh3RbPIw7ik7_AfiyhJODb01f1rv_urh1f55eJtMiXrasLw/s800/windows_wccc_CALIBRATION-SMALL.tif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBGHXuUfCoxBkRWbHU_hszkO8ye0WCogri0CNGNeLeBosCjr8yb7WNLMr4_Sp0bPkeg1bSaSOdZvFiXX7ANfWJ0PspH4_hMct70wclqA31BEQM6xSvFfCaPcroomzUhhZyc5JYK1MFXNllh3RbPIw7ik7_AfiyhJODb01f1rv_urh1f55eJtMiXrasLw/w640-h480/windows_wccc_CALIBRATION-SMALL.tif" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A digitized version of .windows/WCCC. This would be projected on the wall, then taped off, painted, and then the colors of the projection would be calibrated to optically blended with the painted colors.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtvXhDW-_RX-Rma26I3kb6dEz0WQxd09Vl33zhUkWV2pDSO71emHK-DrofJmAgeIK5C7pL-GqCVJSXtpLx1Z0oURxosK-GQM76K5lhkKk7x969PHAjLJ5HA4IOpxYaPU88EGIR-4Mp-0_Yk2rZ2Tt6RqcL-1stFiwLjvRzkxgsboh32NisQE9W_2WfVQ/s4032/IMG_1441.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtvXhDW-_RX-Rma26I3kb6dEz0WQxd09Vl33zhUkWV2pDSO71emHK-DrofJmAgeIK5C7pL-GqCVJSXtpLx1Z0oURxosK-GQM76K5lhkKk7x969PHAjLJ5HA4IOpxYaPU88EGIR-4Mp-0_Yk2rZ2Tt6RqcL-1stFiwLjvRzkxgsboh32NisQE9W_2WfVQ/w640-h480/IMG_1441.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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With the proper blend of complementary colors, one can get every color to negate each other, resulting in tones of gray. In some similar projects I chose to have every color blend to the same neutral gray, including the background. In others I left the background uncolored, but had all the geometric shapes blend to the same gray. In this one I decided to let there be some tonal variation in the gray blocks as well.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxK1clGNn6EC1onZECh4JMHlG3j2TKLmqrLHa0RE-gxLe3P8xdSoAgWP56UsACik792sIzvfWmW9EqfMiYQ_Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div>If you're not familiar with this series of work, the premise is an attempt to create an experience of apophasis - that is, mystical negation - in which the viewers's perceptual expectations are undermined as they paradoxically reveal the painting in their shadow as they obstruct the projection. The result is a somewhat sublime interactive experience in which, true to the Greek notion of <i>aletheia, </i>the work is simultaneously revealed and concealed.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOd84qGp_emQRLwNBBYWSGP0vM-xmQ36zluZDQVjRnYEEikzUEqkdDlAh9KT2STxsqaw7WNKO1D5a4E4yUQ3yjYQen86dSg7CiI_rym6w3SmAqt2sf-URYUboDTBMI8mAcz4W5fqGvUHQAyAv4gNTvmdfoCNDZVI4WvESTKI4UyYBY-Nu245l_8hNPYw/s4032/IMG_1461.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOd84qGp_emQRLwNBBYWSGP0vM-xmQ36zluZDQVjRnYEEikzUEqkdDlAh9KT2STxsqaw7WNKO1D5a4E4yUQ3yjYQen86dSg7CiI_rym6w3SmAqt2sf-URYUboDTBMI8mAcz4W5fqGvUHQAyAv4gNTvmdfoCNDZVI4WvESTKI4UyYBY-Nu245l_8hNPYw/w640-h480/IMG_1461.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3tsYF_pD3Fz1Gcqb5ZvqsB_cRU-xWVgkctA0BDw4ZIUK2KrJV9jhfIIMlcG0a7PhpMSoyjruwAuWkJwnvsm8LaWkePx6oai0dzsaXSiIUm90LncaN_vp44oeQ1CJk1NhdxuZqmbPPT0Nj4KbJdypNGcUUnfMRLMua-Oem89l22II9cZxm7441p1QQng/s3412/IMG_1465.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="3412" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3tsYF_pD3Fz1Gcqb5ZvqsB_cRU-xWVgkctA0BDw4ZIUK2KrJV9jhfIIMlcG0a7PhpMSoyjruwAuWkJwnvsm8LaWkePx6oai0dzsaXSiIUm90LncaN_vp44oeQ1CJk1NhdxuZqmbPPT0Nj4KbJdypNGcUUnfMRLMua-Oem89l22II9cZxm7441p1QQng/w640-h360/IMG_1465.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Artist Christine Romanell interacting with <i>Ontotechnologic</i>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span><br /></span><h3 style="text-align: left;">W(ith)indows</h3><div>The last piece of the puzzle was the inclusion of two pieces from my <i>w(ith)indow </i>series, which also had its origins in the above mentioned exhibition at Andover Newton. In that exhibition, I had created 8 site-specific <a href="https://ericvalosin.com/artwork/3732138-Without%5fWithin.html" target="_blank">frosted glass window projections</a> that fit the architecture of the venue, entitled <i>without_within</i>. I had recently begun excerpting those windows one at a time as standalone pieces.</div><div><br /></div><div>For this exhibition I decided to include the one that I had already built, plus a new, second one.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV9MGILxcXBdRc4K5fHTwEaMtRwi9OcgouFJ-HO0i5NcaM_hCvKa5Y6gUx5999rzT9ndYB3qgOz3J0q1LO_cT0oS9Zh8wfELiszvvUBad7ezVkkxKsvkqPZYu7UiAoNpGcHrtMU5aiVTiLoiCi87EvhfqmiogoWTZ-0JoBqXfdEs0OWhQG-GE3C4j4WA/s4032/IMG_1396.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV9MGILxcXBdRc4K5fHTwEaMtRwi9OcgouFJ-HO0i5NcaM_hCvKa5Y6gUx5999rzT9ndYB3qgOz3J0q1LO_cT0oS9Zh8wfELiszvvUBad7ezVkkxKsvkqPZYu7UiAoNpGcHrtMU5aiVTiLoiCi87EvhfqmiogoWTZ-0JoBqXfdEs0OWhQG-GE3C4j4WA/w640-h480/IMG_1396.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The two "windows," built to appear to function like monitors, but actually function as projection screens</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWjg_amYkM4c_7N88jt-xFYT3p_NtH0A1tLbAfmoclFvxzOEzzb7vmvqWhPxDgZFLp5MhLieF-rHlwHFKl0ZVVcPffFvkicVA8MrnAYi61bwnO0TT5FQNjU1bqT7xztT0xfoaI09c8XUPhb-Td52jzFTgsT8vzCqFa4o6h32FdsuNSj7FECYLibZP2Dw/s2048/IMG_1402.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWjg_amYkM4c_7N88jt-xFYT3p_NtH0A1tLbAfmoclFvxzOEzzb7vmvqWhPxDgZFLp5MhLieF-rHlwHFKl0ZVVcPffFvkicVA8MrnAYi61bwnO0TT5FQNjU1bqT7xztT0xfoaI09c8XUPhb-Td52jzFTgsT8vzCqFa4o6h32FdsuNSj7FECYLibZP2Dw/w640-h640/IMG_1402.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The code was already written for <i>without_within,</i> but now I had to rescale and modify everything to work with two projectors and two screens, both run by a single computer, and remap the interactive zones to fit the venue (essentially a matter of cropping and isolating the vision of the depth camera in 3D space). This was made especially tricky by the fact that my Kinect sensor was occupied in another show at the time, so I was essentially coding blind, with no way to test the output. By some miracle, when I got the Kinect back with just days to spare before install, everything actually worked perfectly with only some minor tweaks (which almost never happens).</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxPkXwzMn4FY6thNf7a02xXBMcHT8peKy8Vi4u6KUk489JgPg8ET-MCXjOZp8mX5MCsDDwZS8mKdCFfpVy7_Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>On to building mounts for the projectors and Mac mini, and then to begin installing.</div><div><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5DkdPRhe93s1-KC4hQUk4P1CraP_3Ai7ZZ3b4aSGic2wW0ja-RwcYCAU057zepAxRzzeOcx3Ws9ztSHaMHXaG14_mJYUZ8wc9g__eQ6MXVyzTVVnGuqCSJKnoQJ0ohV5TBUCP2gsSSZPVq1WRn3xjg0mSB5tLB2AWTe9f1y05d24BI14U0sXfqaTjig/s4032/IMG_1440.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5DkdPRhe93s1-KC4hQUk4P1CraP_3Ai7ZZ3b4aSGic2wW0ja-RwcYCAU057zepAxRzzeOcx3Ws9ztSHaMHXaG14_mJYUZ8wc9g__eQ6MXVyzTVVnGuqCSJKnoQJ0ohV5TBUCP2gsSSZPVq1WRn3xjg0mSB5tLB2AWTe9f1y05d24BI14U0sXfqaTjig/w640-h480/IMG_1440.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Tidying the wires was more of a challenge than anticipated, as you can see the cable tracking up across the ceiling, then across the room, down along a door frame, to the floor where the Kinect sensor was housed and plugged. 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All that was left was to hang the 2-D works, and then set out the promotional materials. </div><div><br /></div><div>This show was a really great experience getting the artistic freedom to curate my own work in a way that seemed appropriate for the space. 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I adjusted the variables to locate the hand positions relative to the person's body rather than to the screen itself, which helped account for a variety of user positions near or far from the camera. I also added in the complete array of spoken code, and tweaked the timing of the voices for a closer unison.</div>
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Unfortunately I had to manually input all 1478 "words," but I did at least devise a way to automate the process of fitting all those entries into the necessary code blocks. By listing all the items in separate columns of a Numbers spreadsheet, I could copy and paste each element: "speech[__] = '__';" where the first space could be algorithmically numbered and the second space was the respective word in the array. Then I used a formula to merge all the rows into a single column, so that I could copy and paste the whole thing into Pages where I could systematically use Find/Replace to remove the extra spaces and replace the quote marks with straight quotes. Then I could copy and paste into Processing.<br />
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Everyone's sound objects would be stationed around the gallery, and artists and viewers alike would be able to interact with them. We also contracted a jazz trio as a "house band," which (unbeknownst to them) would play standards and improvise in conjunction with the chaotic cacophony of all the sound objects joining the composition. </div>
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A big, occultish wheel-of-fortune style wheel would then dictate musical rules, including time signature changes, volume or tempo changes, switching instruments, offering a vocalized "prayer," playing blindly by wearing an oversized mask, using a toy sword to cut an instrument out of the music for a time, simulating your instrument's sound a cappella, or manipulating a wooden paddle in whatever less-than-sadistic way the user saw fit. </div>
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These of course became implausibly precise rules that most of the atonal instruments were incapable of following in the first place, and it added to the anarchic anti-structure of the whole ontological experiment.</div>
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Some of the other projects included a delay-looped feedback pendulum, contact mics submerged in water with various crystals and rocks, a telegraph-turned-alarm bell, salvaged broken electronics out of which sound is coaxed (including a theramin!), and more.<br />
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The venue was a gloriously defunct old warehouse, literally falling apart at the seams. It housed the projects of several other collectives and individuals, including prototypes of <a href="http://www.terreform.org/projects_cricket.html">Terreform One's sustainable food shelters</a>, which I got to see in person just days before I saw news articles popping up about it online!</div>
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Many groups held performances of one sort or another, including a DJ, a playwright, and an immersive projection/performance installation that involved an almost alien-mystic enlightenment "interview." It was tongue and cheek and utterly implausible and yet it was maybe the most impactful and stirring performance I've ever engaged with.</div>
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This time, we substituted our Jazz trio with a Progressive Noise Band out of Philly. The effect was extraordinarily different!<br />
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I reworked my project a bit, building in some textual user feedback on the tracking process to help confused viewers hang in there while it calibrates, and eliminated the perpetual slow motion glitch. Most importantly though, I got it to automatically abort and restart the tracking process when a user left the screen and it thought they were still there. I also built in a fail-safe nuclear option, in which one stroke of the keyboard could be used to reboot the whole program.<br />
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I still don't know exactly what went wrong, but the leading theory is that the sound vibrations were so intense it disrupted the computer's hard drive and crashed the whole thing. Not just the program, the whole computer. Nothing would do anything. Either that or there were so many amps and instruments producing wonky electromagnetic fields that it too messed with the hard drive. In any case, I spent a solid portion of the performance fighting with the technology and becoming a bystander. At least it had its moment in the sun beforehand, and it added to the anarchic feel of the whole endeavor.<br />
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Lots more to figure out before there's ever a third iteration of this project, but until then, if you're interested,<a href="https://gist.github.com/anonymous/64e1cabfb777e6611782f626dd531c34"> here's a link to my full processing code.</a> Feel free to excerpt and adapt, just give credit where it's due.</div>
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I'd been trying to figure out how to incorporate sound into my work for years, but could never quite find a way that didn't seem contrived or precocious.<br />
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However, this past spring I was invited by <a href="http://oculusart.org/">Oculus Art Collaborative</a> to join them in an experimental sound exhibition at Gallery Aferro, and this seemed the perfect challenge to dig in and figure this out.<br />
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The call was for "sound objects" that viewers could interact with to collaboratively create music within an "anarchic interactive public performance inspired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_(Zorn)">John Zorn’s COBRA</a> and <a href="http://static1.squarespace.com/static/55ff5968e4b05dcb6f8a9fad/t/56438327e4b0b633d5019673/1447265063559/GAGE_Killing+Simplicity_2.pdf">object-oriented ontological philosophies</a> by Yale architecture professor Mark Foster Gage."<br />
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Phenomenologically speaking, Object Oriented Ontology aims to redirect one's attention away from function back to the tool itself, which as Martin Heidegger points out in <i>Being and Time</i>, is usually made invisible, veiled behind its function until such a time as it breaks and stops functioning, and we stop taking the object's objectness for granted. In that sense, this exhibition was about the anarchic creation of function flowing out of the exploration of the object as object. Flowing out of Zorn's practice, it also lays bare the underlying arbitrariness of rule structures and guidelines, inevitably denying order while attempting to follow order, producing a new order of its own in the process. Our attention is drawn to the invisible object, and to the meta-framework we create around it.<br />
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It therefore also has something to do with making "invisible form" visible. Well, this seemed like a perfectly mystical place to start.<br />
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But it just so happens there is also a technological parallel. There's a type of programming in which mathematical functions get bundled up into "objects" that carry out those functions (likewise forcing visibility to shift from function to object). These are aptly named <a href="http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/definition/object-oriented-programming">Object Oriented Programming Languages</a>. Java is one of these languages, which just happens to be the basis of the Processing development environment, the very tool I've used for nearly all of my interactive new media projects.<br />
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The road seemed clearly laid before me at this point. I'd use an Object Oriented Program to create and Objectless Object that would be used in accordance with an Object Oriented Ontological experience!<br />
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<i>The Word that Speaks Itself (Objectless Oriented Program) </i>is an objectless object that uses computer vision to track the viewer's hand motions within a defined space to control playback of the "object" chanting its own code. Two hands allow for two voices in harmony, and the motion/placement of the hands controls pitch, volume, and tempo. In that way the viewer becomes the conductor and the instrument. Fittingly, the project is created using Java, which is an "object oriented programming language." </blockquote>
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I'm interested, as you know, in the thingness of nothingness, and interactivity within a digitally mediated meditation, and I think this project would fit very well within the theme of the show. The title is taken from a Meister Eckhart sermon reflecting on the paradox of God being the Logos - the "Word" - and yet every word by nature needing to have been spoken. Thus God becomes the word that speaks itself.</blockquote>
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To accomplish this, I essentially broke down the project into a set of variables tied to intuitive musical conducting motions. The position of the hands on the Y axis (high or low) would be tied to pitch, the X axis (out to the sides or near the body) to volume, Z axis (stretched out in front or back near the body) to the tempo. </div>
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Kudos to Kof and his brilliant tutorial. He said to "modify as you need," so I did:<br />
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<li>create as many instances of Basnik as you want - you can <a href="https://processing.org/reference/thread_.html">thread</a> them together to create polyphonic effects, use variables for dynamic control of the voices, and iterate through string arrays ("String[]") of words so you can change those controls mid sentence.</li>
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This past summer I had the pleasure of participating in one of the most exciting group shows I've yet been a part of. Jeanne Brasile, director of Seton Hall University's Walsh Gallery, and artist Gianluca Bianchino teamed up as the curatorial duo <i>Wavelength.</i> For their inaugural exhibition they examined the physics of their namesake, inviting light artists to give their take on <i>The Particle and the Wave.</i></div>
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I'm honored to have been a part of this show, sharing the gallery with the likes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCO">USCO</a> (the collective of Gerd Stern and Michael Callahan), whose work in the show incorporated video pieces borrowed from Nam Jun Paik and Charlotte Moorman (Which officially makes me 6 degrees separated from Kevin Bacon, but only 2 degrees from Nam Jun Paik!). </div>
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I'll probably never forget Jean relating <a href="http://suzannelafleur.org/suzannes-circle-spotlight-on-gerd-stern-beatnik-poet-and-pioneering-multi-media-artist/">Gerd's story</a> of escaping Germany during WWII, trying to hack it as a poet and ending up impoverished, meeting Alan Ginsberg in a mental institution, getting kicked out, and then finding his way with likes of John Cage, Harry Partch, Maya Angelou, and the Black Mountain School (this is the tame version of the story).</div>
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With the gallery being entirely dark, it was a perfect occasion for me to develop another iteration of my <i><a href="http://ericvalosin.com/artwork/3377435_Hyalo_2_Rose.html">Hyalo</a></i> series.<br />
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This series is an offshoot of my <a href="http://ericvalosin.com/artwork/3793970_UnKnowledge_II.html">projection negation</a> work, combining projected and painted color. But instead of negating each other, the Hyalo projects blend to an iridescent, ambiguous third color that resembles stained glass, and seems to float at an indeterminate depth on the wall.<br />
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Many thanks to Jeanne and Gianluca for including me in this amazing show. It will surely be one I speak fondly of for a very long time!</div>
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<br />Eric Valosinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16878833018032552923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1970368935491343684.post-5195794876820117862016-08-16T15:06:00.001-04:002016-08-16T15:06:28.218-04:00Drawing on the HorizonEarlier this spring the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey invited me into an interesting, challenging, and uniquely spontaneous exhibition. What the individualism of baseball is to "team" sports, this show was to collaboration.<br />
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Each artist in <i><a href="http://www.artcenternj.org/exhibitions/exhibitions-archive/drawing-on-the-horizon/">Drawing on the Horizon</a></i> was tasked with a 30 inch mural responding to two stimuli: the artist(s) who installed earlier, and the consistent horizon line circumambulating the room. Each artist gets one day to install. Only one artist installs at a time. Installations were scheduled one after the other throughout the entire duration of the exhibition, yielding an ongoing, cumulative, in-progress state.</div>
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I really enjoy the idea of collaboratively drawing on each other's practices and influences (pardon the now overwrought pun). It feels honest and generous, not pretending there is some absolute vacuum in which creativity happens, or that your work is entirely your own (or anyone else's). It's an embodiment of the relational truth and postmodern theology my artwork routinely inhabits (ex: see my collaborative work <a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-final-fourfold-four-now.html">with John Spano and Christine Romanell</a>, for example).</div>
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My strategy was to create a large QR Mandala (an extension of my <a href="http://ericvalosin.com/section/361150_Meditation_Series.html">Meditations</a> series), pulling in formal elements from the prior artists' work. </div>
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The QR code, when scanned, would take the viewer to an interactive panorama of the room prior to my portion of it.</div>
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To do this, I tapped into a lesser-known social media platform called <a href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/fyuse-updates-to-version-3/">Fyuse. </a>It isn't doing to well as a social media platform, but the technology it uses is really something interesting. </div>
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I coded a placeholder destination for the QR code on my web space ahead of time so that I could embed the Fyuse link once I was ready. Then I grabbed my ruler, charcoal, pastels, and went to work.<br />
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Gridding out the code on the wall probably took the bulk of the time, but I always find drawing the pixels to be just the right balance of tedious and meditative.<br />
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I also spent a significant amount of time studying the other artwork, discerning the compositional through-lines and trying to distill out of them a mandala form. I pulled from the colors and gestures of the works beside me, and echoed the line quality of some of the geometric portions of other works before those. I also tried to continue the angles created in the piece before me, and break up the floor-to-cieling verticality that had arisen in my corner, but without being too abrupt.<br />
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Here were some of the other moments that came before me, to which I'd endeavor to respond. The mural began with the painting of the girl in the dress, and then expanded outward in both directions with each subsequent artist:<br />
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The (Virtual) Horizon...</h3>
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Luckily I was able to go in and strip out the border and caption related HTML to get just a pure image. Then I had to get a little tricky and, instead of resizing the image, resize the browser window immediately upon loading, so that it would essentially digitally zoom the image to fit the screen. Every new project feels like a test of my technological unorthodoxy. Not having a coding background, everything I've learned has come as the result of trying to solve an artistic problem, and every triumph, however small, seems monumental in the moment.</div>
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With that in working order, I was ready to clean up and let the remaining artists do their parts! (You can refer to the <a href="http://ericvalosin.com/artwork/4052821_Meditation_1_5_Thusness_Elseness_Drawing.html">video on my website</a> to see it in action, or scan the code in any of the images here for yourself!)</div>
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Here are a few of my more well-formulated responses to a few of their curatorial questions, which were later compiled into a statement for the exhibition:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">• The horizon line became a demarcation of color within the drawn QR code, separating the red above from the green below (pulling the colors from prior works on the wall). </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">• In light of my mandala-like imagery, the horizon seemed reminiscent to me of the phrase "as above, so below" and became a way to compound the aerial perspective of a mandala with the horizontal, linear perspective of the horizon line. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">• Scanning the QR code with a smart phone brings the viewer to an interactive panoramic image of the other artists' work, panning through the image as the viewer tilts his/her phone. This continues the horizon line even into cyber space, and creates an odd dislocation between the physical space and the now superimposed digital version of that same space. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">• As noted above, scanning the QR code with a smart phone brings the viewer to an interactive panoramic image of the other artists' work (without my own). In that way my work becomes theirs, and theirs mine. </span></blockquote>
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This summer one of my new projects this year will be touring around the country in a very unique curatorial endeavor. The Creativity Caravan, run by writer/artists Maya Stein and Amy Tingle, is hosting <i><a href="http://thecreativitycaravan.com/tiny-book-show/">The Tiny Book Show</a>, </i>consisting of lilliputian literature, artist books no bigger than 3" in any dimension.</div>
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The call for entry provided an intriguing challenge as I tried to come up with a project that would fit the criteria but, of course, still cohere with the rest of my practice. With the theme being book-oriented, I went back to the last book I published, <a href="http://valosinprojects.com/unknowing-the-unknowable/">my thesis monograph</a> for inspiration. </div>
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So I set out to make a book with clear plexiglass pages. Each page would host a fragment of the QR code. When the book is closed, the overlaid fragments would cohere into the complete, scannable code.</div>
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As an added challenge, I wanted to make any pair of consecutive pages also compile a complete code. And, by taking advantage of the flexibility built in by the QR code's error correction capability, I could strategically add/remove pixels to make each coherent whole slightly different from each other, but all scan the same.</div>
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The next step was to figure out how to get all the pages to align. I decided I'd drill some holes that I'd use later to bind the pages, but could for now use as a way to align each page over a grid, on top of which I'd draw the QR code.<br />
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The next trick would be how to actually inscribe the QR code. I needed high enough contrast to make the image scannable, but as I experimented with various paints and markers, nothing would hold up to the wear and tear of book use without rubbing or scraping off.</div>
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I figured I could take advantage of the plexi by engraving the code into it, but would need more contrast than the frosted-glass effect of scratched plexi. So I decided to combine both approaches, scoring the plexi and then rubbing acrylic paint marker into the abrasions. Hopefully that would be both permanent and dark enough to be functional.</div>
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After a couple pages were done, it was time to see if it would actually work or not. This is always the most nerve racking moment of these QR code projects, waiting to see if my hours of labor would cooperate with my initial vision or if it would fall on its face and amount to a pile of dirtied plexi. (for an example of making the most of such a failure, check out my <a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2016/04/my-holographic-universe-part-3-my-first.html">recent Denisyuk Reflection Hologram</a>, in which I attempted to make a scannable, 3D, holographic QR code.)<br />
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With the compiled codes proving to indeed be scannable, I continued scratching a coloring away until all 8 pages were complete. The last part of the equation would be the binding.<br />
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This was a tougher decision than I anticipated. Because of the clarity of the plexiglass, any binding would be very much visible, and it had to hold the pages tight enough in place for them to be scannable, but still allow the pages to turn.<br />
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Some sort of spiral binding seemed my best bet, but I wanted the material to dialogue with the digital/analog theme. So I decided to treat it as the physical portal to the digital world that it was, and use materials commonly meant for electronic circuitry, copper wire and solder.<br />
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Much to my shame, this was actually the first time I'd ever soldered! But it was a good test case, since precision wasn't an issue. And all in all, I'm pleased with the outcome!<br />
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Make sure to check the itinerary at the link above and catch the Tiny Book Show at a Gallery/Library/Cultural Center near you!Eric Valosinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16878833018032552923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1970368935491343684.post-88237238154353794262016-05-15T12:06:00.000-04:002016-05-17T11:54:30.045-04:00My Holographic Universe: Part 5/5 Reflections (and Transmissions)Lest I leave you hanging, I wanted to take some time to reflect back on my week at the Ohio State University Pulse Laser Holography lab. If you're just tuning in, you can follow my adventure from the beginning <a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2016/04/my-holographic-universe-part-1.html">here</a>.<br />
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Our mentor, renowned physicist Harris Kagan was sure to drill in the major rules of holography:<br />
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<li><b>You can do anything, it just takes time</b> - nothing is off limits, it just might take 8 hours of re-machining parts, building structures, and aligning optics to make it feasible.</li>
<li><b>Well, maybe not </b><b style="font-style: italic;">anything - </b>there are many inherent limitations to the medium. Fuzzy things and living things move on a microscopic level. No matter how still you are, you'll never be stabile enough for a continuous laser image. Shiny objects just work better. But if they're too shiny they won't work at all. Green objects will never be bright under a red laser. Whatever idea you had, assume you'll be tweaking it. However it's these limitations that provide for many of the most interesting and ingenuitive experimental holograms.</li>
<li><b>It's who you know</b> - nothing new, but the holography community is super close-knit. It's like a secret society or a fraternity, in which everyone knows everyone, and it's a small pond filled with huge fish all swimming shoulder to shoulder. We had visitors drive in from several states over when they heard Sam and Harris would be in the same room, just for a chance to get an autograph and talk lasers. Good ol' so-and-so out in Russia? Yeah, I saw him a few weeks ago. He worked with what's-his-name in Japan, right? Yeah, right before I worked with him in NY. He's married to that woman what's-her-face. Oh yeah, I had dinner with her last month at such-and-such. If you can manage to name drop that one holographer you've worked with, they <i>will</i> know who you mean, and you will feel very important for the next 45 seconds. But when you're in the company of holographers talking holography, prepare to be acutely aware of the fact that you are, for now, an outsider graciously being offered a peek into a strange world full of physics jokes, unpronounceable words, and units of measure you haven't thought about since high school. </li>
<li><b>There are two types of artists</b> - the kind that want to be holographers and the kind that want you to make holograms for them so they can look like holographers. Holographers can smell a poser from a mile away. For instance, I found out the hard way not to mention James Turrell as one of your holography idols. The holography community has a severe distaste for Turrell, who walks into a lab and pays "real" holographers to make him brilliant things. But if you asked him about beam ratios or how exactly triethylalamine filters out selective wavelengths of white light to develop a colored hologram, he'd likely give you a blank stare. While he gets all the glory as a "legendary holographer" the guy who likely invented all the techniques he's using is sitting in a basement in Ohio getting an autograph from Sam Morée.</li>
<li><b>Give up the Pepper's Ghost - </b>holographers are <i>VERY</i> touchy about the colloquial bantering about of the word "hologram." If I had a dollar for every time it was mentioned that Tupac was not a hologram but merely a pepper's ghost illusion (and that holography is <i>not</i> an illusion - it is real wavelengths of light reaching your eye the exact same way they would if the object were there), I'd be able to afford my own lab. Nor are HoloLens or VR technically holographic technologies. Moral of the story, technicalities matter (see bullet point #1)</li>
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For more info about the HoloCenter and the Pulse Laser Holography workshop and residency program, visit the <a href="http://www.holocenter.org/">HoloCenter website</a>.<br />
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And should you find yourself in Columbus, I'll share the same advice that was shared with me: Go to Jeni's ice cream. Sample everything (I looked down at one point to find 10 tiny spoons in my sticky, clenched fingers), and ask for pairing suggestions. The ice cream will exceed the hype.<br />
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Eric Valosinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16878833018032552923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1970368935491343684.post-48917345218398702016-04-29T02:14:00.001-04:002016-05-20T01:13:09.911-04:00My Holographic Universe: Part 4/5 (the final two days)Today marked the last day of the Pulse Laser Holography workshop led by renowned physicist Harris Kagan and legendary holographer Sam Moree that I've been fortunate enough to attend at Ohio State along with 4 other phenomenal artists from all over the continent. After having completed our Denisyuk reflection holograms on Tuesday, we brought it all to a close by developing transmission holograms with the pulse ruby laser and making white light viewable rainbow hologram transfers.<br />
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I'm sad to part ways with the excellent group of artists I've become so close with over this last week. It's at times seemed to fly by and at other times felt like an eternity; Waiting in the dark for 20 minutes at a time silently or making small talk, 20+ times a day, being mindful of every second passing by, has a way of distorting time. I'll miss the camaraderie of being an extra set of hands for each other as we regularly oscillated between planned lethargy and crisis mode.<br />
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The setup was a little too high so that from the vantage point of the film you could barely see the water, (which was not nearly as agitated as I 'd hoped) but otherwise it was a really successful shoot.</div>
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Each of our holograms got better and better as we went along, and the crises became fewer and farther between.</div>
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Eventually, we all finished up, and had some really spectacular masters from which we'd make 4x5" transfers. Sam began setting mine up to be first up for the transfer the next day.</div>
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We finished relatively early (that is, not late), and I got back to my host's house just in time for a really great, small party thrown somewhat in my honor. Conversation ranged from holography to foodies to pinball machine repair, to defecation performance art, and I was stunned that not a single one of those topics was any less technical or conceptually rich than any other!</div>
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Today we returned for our final day. I was first up for the transfer. The way it works is this: Since every point on the hologram contains all the information for the light scattering off that object and going to that point, you can shine a point source laser through the hologram and end up projecting the entire scene onto the wall. As you move the point around, the vantage point of the projected image moves around accordingly.</div>
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In mine, the rear rock pile sits behind the picture plane (what's called a "virtual" image because it's focal point occupies space that does not physically exist), while the front rock pile appears to just out in front of the picture plane (a "real" object with a focal point in real space in front of the image)</div>
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We started the morning with more theory: transmission vs. reflection (whether the object and reference beams hit the same or opposite side of the film), how the silver emulsion works (grains of silver standing up when light hits them), the optics themselves (mirrors and lenses accurate to within a 10th of the wavelength of light!), film resolution (3,000 grains per cm! That's equivalent to a 4x5 photo with a gigabyte of data stored in it!)...</div>
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And just when I thought I had finally gotten a handle on it, Sam or Harris would say something that totally undermined the understanding I thought I had. But eventually (I think) we started tracking with them, just in time to get some first hand experience.</div>
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We went 2 doors down to the pulse laser. As a frame of reference, our first demo with the smaller helium neon laser on Day 1 required a 4 minute exposure. The ruby pulse laser is so powerful it needs 20 billionths of a second to do the same thing!</div>
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I had gotten all the supplies earlier that morning, and the plan was to construct a 3D scannable QR code using nails in a wood board (<a href="http://www.m42.it/image/cache/data/oggettistica%20scientifica/pin_art_4-500x500.jpg">pinpression</a> style). I thought it would be really interesting to be able to move around this topographical, waveform/interference-pattern-like image that coheres into a QR code at just the right angle, then scan a hologram with your phone and be sent to a website.</div>
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First, the wood was too thick and wouldn't fit in the box. So I had to use my little hand saw to plane it in half! </div>
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And in case you were curious, the sound of a saws-all through wood apparently sounds just enough like a frog's mating call to attract visitors!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My pet frog for the moment, who hung<br />
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The problems started to come after I hammered in the first row of nails.<br />
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It quickly became apparent that hammering in a nail butted up agains another nail at varying heights (which mean snipping the nails to make them shorter) was not going to be easy with a big, clumsy hammer. I figured out a method that worked using a hole punch to extend the nail, but getting them all at the right angle and location proved quite a challenge.</div>
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It also became quickly apparent that I'd need about a week to get this thing finished, and it had to be ready in about 9 hours. 2:00 am. and I had about 2.5 rows down, 23.5 more to go...</div>
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I abandoned plan A, figured I'd call it a night, get up early and start sloping the nails down toward the surface, and just draw the rest of the code.<br />
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However, with the wonky gridlines started by the uncooperative nails, this got real sloppy real fast.<br />
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And even in its best moments, it was simply not scannable. Which also meant it had a 0% chance of being a scannable hologram. Goodbye, plan B.<br />
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So I decided to turn it into a meditation on my frustration with the uncooperative materials. I'm thinking of calling it "Meditation on Disrupted Meditations" or "Deconstruction of a Failed QR, Reconstructed"<br />
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I added a bunch of leaning and toppling screws, chewed up some of the edges, and glued down my two least cooperative tools.<br />
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If it wasn't going to be strong conceptually, at least it would make for an interesting object!<br />
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That brought me right up to the start of class where we'd be imaging our objects. The Denisyuk is a reflection hologram named for its inventor, in which the reference beam passes through the film to the object behind it, reflects off the object and bounces back, hitting the back side of the film with the object beam. This changes the orientation of the interference pattern, and allows it to be illuminated from in front (i.e. gallery lighting).<br />
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Of course we started off the day with more theory: learning about how path length differences can be used to selectively interfere with and cancel out all but a desired wavelength within white light. This lets the hologram be viewed with white light instead of needing a laser.<br />
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When the white light reflects off the film, ordinarily it would separate into a smeared rainbow. But with a chemical called TEA (triethylalamine), you can make the emulsion thicker, changing the path length of the transmitted and reflected white light. Then, when you remove the tea and the film shrinks back down, you've effectively cancelled out all the wavelengths except the one you want - any given color.<br />
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In short, white light => yellow image, not smeared rainbow.<br />
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Then each of the five of us took turns putting this all into practice. Our heads were swimming with all the steps:<br />
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<li>Setup the table and align the lasers (this was done for us from prior days)</li>
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<li>Mount your object in the box (with copious amounts of hot glue for stability)</li>
<li>Clean the glass that will hold the film</li>
<li>Turn off lights (turn on safe green lights)</li>
<li>Find the side of the film with the emulsion (touch it to your wetted lip and find the sticky side)</li>
<li>Soak the film in TEA, emulsion side up</li>
<li>Squeegee dry</li>
<li>Mount the film between glass panes in the box, emulsion side down</li>
<li>Stabilize the glass with putty</li>
<li>Prepare the chemicals for developing</li>
<li>Wait 20 minutes for film and table to stabilize</li>
<li>Tell stories (very important)</li>
<li>Lift card blocking the laser for 1 minute to stabilize the table</li>
<li>Remove card completely and expose film for 10 seconds</li>
<li>Don't breath, move, or loose count</li>
<li>Replace card to block laser</li>
<li>Bring film to dark room</li>
<li>Agitate in Developer solution for 2-4 minutes until 80% opaque black, emulsion side up</li>
<li>Rinse in water 5 times</li>
<li>Agitate in bleach for roughly 5 minutes until clear</li>
<li>Rinse 5 times</li>
<li>Soak/rinse in water for 15-20 minutes (roughly 3x the amount of bleach time)</li>
<li>Soak in Vitamin C solution until brown</li>
<li>Squeegee dry, check for streaks</li>
<li>Blow dry until it curls up in the opposite direction</li>
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Aligning the laser (above): </td></tr>
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And then if all has gone well, you have a hologram!!<br />
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Mine turned out a bit cloudy - We figured out that we think there wasn't enough developer in the tray (mine took almost twice the time it should have to turn black) and not enough time in the Vitamin C, which helps remove some cloudiness.<br />
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And one by one we each got them all completed. I was fortunate to go second and get the anxiety of destroying my image out of my system early. However, the last two people's really turned out fantastically as we all started to better understand the process and help each other out.<br />
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Next, Onward to our very own misadventures with the pulse laser, then transferring the pulse masters to holographic prints!</div>
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Eric Valosinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16878833018032552923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1970368935491343684.post-82452833201183832162016-04-25T00:48:00.002-04:002023-04-28T13:03:39.720-04:00My Holographic Universe: Part 2/5<br />
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After 8 hours of blue skies and puffy clouds along I-80, I arrived for the Pulse Laser Holography Workshop in Columbus, Ohio yesterday evening, graciously being hosted by my MFA compatriot Brian Haverlock and his hospitable friend Lorelei.<br />
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It was fantastic to catch up with Brian, the monk-turned-psuedo-apostate-performance-artist whose reverently irreverent assemblages and performative personas toe the line between the sacred and the profane. As we sat down to a burger and some beers, our theological conversations seemed a fitting beginning to this adventure.<br />
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I soon settled into my air mattress at my host's quaint one-bedroom apartment. I couldn't help but be a little jealous of its monkish minimalism, and I appreciated that her windows looked like <a 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Finch</a> installations. A much needed retreat from the clutter of this year.<br />
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Day 1</h3>
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It wasn't long before morning came and I was off to campus to meet up with the other artists, a really fantastic group of people:<br />
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<a href="http://zsofivalyinagy.com/">Szofi Valyi-Nagy</a> (Chicago),<br />
<a href="http://mihoogai.com/home.html">Miho Ogai</a> (New York),<br />
<a href="http://www.sandrameigs.com/">Sandra Meigs</a> (Canada),<br />
and Jeffrey Hazelden (Ohio)<br />
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We began in a lecture room, learning the history and science behind the medium from some of the foremost authorities in the world.<br />
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<b style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://holocenter.org/artists/sam-moree">Sam Morée</a></b><span style="text-align: center;">, the serious, soft spoken cofounder of the NY Holographic Laboratories and a pioneer of art holography in the 70's, with hair somewhere between Einstein and Warhol was accompanied by </span><b style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://physics.osu.edu/people/kagan.1">Harris Kagan</a></b><span style="text-align: center;">, a tall, good humored, slightly scattered and nervous seeming professor of holography who is one of the team of physicists responsible for the discovery of the Higgs Boson at CERN.</span><br />
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These guys are no joke.<br />
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...Well, except when they are, squabbling like an old married couple over the preferred color of a flashlight, or talking over each other to reiterate a point. Entertaining foibles aside, the wealth of knowledge and experience between them is staggering.<br />
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After a thorough briefing, we were escorted into the labs for a tour of the equipment and a demonstration of combining laser beams to produce an interference pattern. (This, by the way, is essentially how they used the technology in CERN, Harris explained, noticing simultaneous changes in interference patterns due to gravitational shifts from a cosmic event across a 2 mile long beam length.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sam and Harris setting up an interferometer to explain and calibrate the parts -<br />
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Sam and Harris walked us through an "In-line" transmission Hologram, in which a single beam is used: </div>
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After being spread, part of the beam shines directly on the exposure and the other part shines on a lineup of items to be imaged, reflecting off of them onto the exposure. The two parts of the beam (the "reference" beam directly from the laser and the "object" beam reflecting off the objects) mix to create an interference pattern on the exposure that's unique to the way the light hits those specific objects. </div>
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You can later shine a laser with the same wavelength on that recorded image, which constructively interferes with the recorded interference pattern and reconstructs for your eye the light as it was seen reflecting off the objects - what our eye sees as the 3D hologram of the object.</div>
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<b>STEP 1:</b> <b>Lunch </b></div>
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After a brief max exodus to a Korean restaurant for lunch, Harris led us in <b>setting up</b> the table. He took light readings to plan the location of the exposure within one side of the beam to optimize the beam lengths and ratios (between the object and reference beam's brightnesses), and then we placed our objects in the path of the other side of the beam.</div>
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Any hopes of a conceptualism were tossed out the window as we learned why most of the objects we had brought would not image well. We also learned quickly that any answer we provided to what we thought was an intuitive rhetorical question would be the wrong answer, and most of his questions were meant to be intuitive and rhetorical. We've got a long way to go...<br />
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Turns out that because of the red light, anything green or less reflective gets imaged as black, anything transparent acts as another optic that potentially distorts the beam, and any movement <b>at all </b>(on a microscopic level) will result in no image.<br />
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In this case we started with my pile of rocks, which were quickly deemed uncooperative by their general instability and tendency towards chunky occlusion shadows falling in the way of the other objects.<br />
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As everyone else added their objects I scanned the lab's table of nicknacks for a suitable replacement. "Captain Pepper," the porcelain pepper shaker was my stand in, until Harris inadvertently toppled him over, demoting him to the Headless Captain Pepper. With his proud, now disembodied captain head prominently displayed on a pole for all to see, we continued aligning the objects. Well, as he said earlier, "broken things make for much more interesting holograms."</div>
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<b>Step 2: Tell stories... seriously though. That's step two.</b></div>
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Once everything's in place, the lights go off and the film goes in the holder (It's just like photographic film, but much denser resolution of silver particles in the emulsion, and sensitive to red neon light).</div>
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Then we wait. 20 minutes to let the wood of the frame settle, to make sure that absolutely nothing is moving. With the strength of light we had, it would take a 4 minute exposure. </div>
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In those 4 minutes, <b>nothing could move more than 300 nanometers.</b> <b>That's roughly 1/50 the thickness of a human hair! </b>Otherwise, no image! Even breathing or speaking caused enough vibrations to wiggle our test interference pattern, and that's using a $30,000 vibration dampening table!</div>
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So we spent those 20 minutes going around and telling stories, waiting for everything to settle. It was a great way to get to know each other, and build artistic community and camaraderie, actually.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hard to see, but this is the object beam reflecting off the objects,<br />
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Then finally we set a timer and I got to volunteer to hold the black card blocking the laser out of the way for 4 minutes while praying I wouldn't sneeze. </div>
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This allowed the laser to shine on the objects and on the light sensitive film. After 4 minutes I replaced the card in front of the laser and on we went.</div>
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All that was left was to develop the image, darkroom style.</div>
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Acid for a few minutes, water rinse for a few minutes, bleach for a few minutes, back to the water, and eventually we had a clear transparency that contained in it all the information of all the light that makes up our visual experience of those objects, from every possible reflected viewing angle, to a microscopic level of detail.</div>
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All you need is a laser to make it come to life.<br />
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We'll be testing out the big kahuna, the Ruby <b>pulse laser</b>, of which there are only a handful of in the world. It's so powerful that it could do our 4 minute exposure in about 1 billionth of a second, completely eliminating any care for object stability. You could throw something and still image it. Our cells don't even change that fast (the human biological rhythm is apparently in the order of a few hundredths of a second). </div>
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We'll be imaging ourselves as a <b>holographic group portrait</b>!</div>
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We'll also be using a second setup to make "Denisyuk Reflection Holograms," which are another type of in-line hologram using the weaker helium neon laser. The beam passes through the film on its way to the object (with a shallow depth of field) and the reflects off and bounces back to the film. The beams meet in the middle on the film and create the interference pattern.</div>
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So the next task is to scramble to find materials to image that are diffusely shiny or bright red/white, with interesting dimensionality, and that fit into a 4x5x1.5 inch box... Reminds me of grad school as we all collude to carpooling to hit up thrift stores and find trinkets and materials to misuse!</div>
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Eventually we'll be developing individual projects for the Pulse Laser, creating a laser-viewable master, and then transferring them to holographic prints viewable in white light. Maybe I'll try my rock pile again then. Onward to Day two!</div>
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Tomorrow I will be embarking on one of the most exciting studio escapades I've had, and I'll be chronicling my journey here.<br />
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This year has been very eventful for me so far. Besides my first semester adjuncting and many side projects, I think I had more exhibitions lined up in January than I did all of last year, many of which I have not had a chance to write about yet. I'll get to that soon, but in the meantime...</div>
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Tomorrow I leave for the mythical land of Columbus, Ohio to partake in a weeklong Pulse Laser Holography workshop at Ohio State University!<br />
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I'm exceedingly fortunate to have been one of 5 artists from around the world selected to play with lasers, beam splitters, emulsion plates, and all sorts of other magical stuff as I learn how to make holograms (not the peppers ghost Tupac kind, nor the shiny credit card/baseball hat sticker kind, we're talking real 3D images projecting form 2D surface holograms here!)<br />
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This workshop will give me a taste of the medium and enable me to apply for their residency program in which I can realize a full project/body of work.<br />
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If you're wondering where holograms enter into my techno-sublime, relationally metaphysical art practice, my proposal sheds some light:<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Workshop Statement</b></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b></b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I’m interested in holography as a technologically mediated expression of the sublime, and a connection between the physical and virtual. In my artwork I have used light and projection to suss out the potentials of mystical experience since the advent of cyber/virtual space, now that postmodernism has put classical metaphysics through the ringer. I became aware of holography as an artistic medium in graduate school in 2012 as I searched for ways to use light and new media to augment our perception of our surroundings and extend our presence into new non-corporeal spaces in a bodily interactive manner. I visited the New Museum’s “<a href="http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/pictures-from-the-moon">Pictures From the Moon</a>” holography exhibition including works by James Turrell, Bruce Nauman and others, and I began to see holography as a perfect representation of the mystical notion of “formless form.” </span> </blockquote>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Around that time I began creating mandalas - pseudo-architectural images that can be read meditatively as cosmological diagrams - conflated with functioning QR codes as a way to contemplatively interface with the virtual. In my research, I found mandalas are actually traditionally thought of as a sort of hologram. One <a href="http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/archives/advanced/tantra/level1_getting_started/explanation_meaning_mandala_munich_/transcript.html)"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">website</span></a> notes:</span></blockquote>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Very many people have the mistaken notion that you actually visualize these two-dimensional designs. Nobody visualizes these two-dimensional designs, so everyone visualizes three-dimensional buildings on this two-dimensional picture. It’s merely like an architect’s blueprint for the building.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Or, if any of you are familiar with science, it’s a little bit like a hologram. For a hologram you have a two-dimensional film that contains all the information of a three-dimensional image, and if the light hits that film in a certain way, you get a three-dimensional hologram, just like that.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Here, mandalas and sacred imagery begin to dovetail with the emerging Holographic Principle in physics, which posits that all the information that comprises the whole universe is actually contained on the two dimensional surface surrounding the outer edge of the universe, which is then “projected” inward much like a hologram to become the multidimensional world we experience.</span> </blockquote>
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If you're interest is as piqued as mine, here is a lecture the HoloCenter recommends as a primer to the topic. More tomorrow, as I chronicle my journey!<br />
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Eric Valosinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16878833018032552923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1970368935491343684.post-61970130296537805452015-09-04T12:33:00.002-04:002015-09-04T16:26:50.797-04:00New Art for the New Art GroupThe <a href="http://newartgroup.com/" target="_blank">New Art Group</a>, a NJ based artist collective, was recently asked to curate an exhibition in which each member invited an artist whose work they felt was influential to their practice. I'm truly honored to have invited by <a href="http://pinkmania.com/" target="_blank">Paul Pinkman</a> to exhibit along side him in the <i>2015 New Art Group Invitational</i> at the Watchung Art Center!<br />
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As I will coincidentally be showing a projection negation project at the Arts Center again in January in <i><a href="http://caitlinalbright.com/news.html" target="_blank">Obstructions</a></i>, curated by <a href="http://caitlinalbright.com/home.html" target="_blank">Caitlin Albright</a>, I wanted to show a different side of my work for this exhibition.<br />
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I have been working on a new series of drawings turning circuit diagrams from a forthcoming installation into cosmological diagrams, and I thought this might be a great opportunity to give the first two in the series a bit of a test run:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>For()Loop Meditation 0.1 (Prototype)</i><br />
Read more about it at <a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2015/06/forloop-meditations.html" target="_blank">this blog post</a></td></tr>
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Paul was particularly interested in my projection work and how it dialogues with his work, so I began thinking about how I could put together something that would fit in the context of an exhibition otherwise filled mostly with traditional work, as well as something that would be pretty flexible installation wise.</div>
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After <i><a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2014/11/contemplating-withoutwithin.html" target="_blank">Without_Within</a>, </i>my exhibition up at Andover Newton Theological School last November in which I mapped a <a href="http://ericvalosin.com/artwork/3732138_Without_Within.html" target="_blank">dual-projector interactive installation</a> into 8 frosted windows, I had been toying with the idea of excerpting each window as its own piece. I thought this might prove the perfect opportunity to give it a try.</div>
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After much deliberation and a few trips to home depot, I was well on my way creating <i>W(ith)indow 2, </i> based off the second window in the series of 8. <a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2015/09/withoutwithin-withindows.html" target="_blank">Read about its creation at this post</a></div>
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In Dialogue</h3>
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Its been fascinating to me to see how my work dialogues with Paul's. We've had fantastic conversations about our work (and artwork in general), but I hadn't really thought much about the overlaps in our practices until he was generous enough to invite me into this show.</div>
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He is showing two remarkable paintings from his <i>Truth/Lies </i>series:</div>
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Though perhaps starting and ending in different places, our practices intersect with very similar relational philosophies. In our work I think Paul and I are both wrestling with contemporary notions of the self, especially acknowledging the layers of mediation between perception and reality (especially see his <a href="http://pinkmania.com/work/selfies/" target="_blank">selfie series</a>). We both embrace the ever present “screens” that facilitate our experiences (spiritual, phenomenological, psychological, or otherwise). Paul’s work, too, is not contented with passive viewer interactions, instead urging viewers to move in and out, back and forth, as the images cohere, fall apart, and cohere again in various layers of physical and pictorial depth. In a way, we both strive physically, temporally, and pictorially, to achieve stability while avoiding stasis.<br />
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Eric Valosinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16878833018032552923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1970368935491343684.post-47118376263427784862015-09-04T12:29:00.002-04:002015-09-04T12:39:16.871-04:00Without_Within, W(ith)indows<br />
Last November (2014) I completed an installation called <i><a href="http://ericvalosin.com/artwork/3732138_Without_Within.html" target="_blank">Without_Within</a> </i>(Follow link for video) for a <a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2014/11/contemplating-withoutwithin.html" target="_blank">solo show</a> up at Andover Newton Theological School of the same name. It consisted a dual-projector interactive projection mapping project filling 8 frosted windows.<br />
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Ever since, I'd been toying with the idea of excerpting each of the 8 windows as their own series of projects. I dubbed them <i>W(ith)indows</i> (riffing on the interiority/exteriority themes of the prior project)<br />
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This past month I was invited into the <a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2015/09/new-art-for-new-art-group.html" target="_blank">2015 New Art Group Invitational</a> by <a href="http://pinkmania.com/" target="_blank">Paul Pinkman</a>, and I felt this was a perfect opportunity to give it a try. After looking over my past project, I decided to start out with the second window in the series, which I thought had a nice balance to it and would put up little fight as a stand alone bit of code.<br />
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The hard part was essentially done - all the coding for the imagery and the interactive hot zones was already in place from <i>Without_Within. </i>All I had to do (ha!) was reformulate all the proportions and coordinates, moving the imagery from it's mapped location in the corner of the first projector screen to centered and filling the whole screen.<br />
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Once I got the proportions cooperating, It was time for a site visit to start figuring out what this installation was going to look like when it got off of my computer screen.</div>
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Some interesting constraints arose, in that locations for a ceiling mount were limited, and the gallery was a bit particular about what we could/couldn't do to their walls (though not unreasonably so). The rest of the exhibition was, incidentally, mostly traditional work and I felt like mine needed to be in dialogue with that format (which is partially why I chose to try this project out, which I thought might be nice as a sort of picture frame/light box/faux window)</div>
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But it became apparent that the piece needed to be roughly 3 ft wide at most, and I had about 6.5 feet of throw distance to work with for my projector mount.</div>
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With installation time limited, I wanted to make the project as easily scalable as possible. Just in case physically resizing and keystone correcting the projection wasn't enough, I wanted to be able to digitally resize the imagery without having to rework 130 algebraic equations on the spot.</div>
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With a bit of variable gymnastics and trial and error, I was able to algorithmically link each coordinate to last, so that a change in one number would cascade down change each other number accordingly.</div>
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But that left it oriented in the corner, which I thought might leave an ugly projection falloff if the masked off extra bits all fell on one side of the image. So I did a little pushMatrix()/popMatrix() translation magic and coded some black rectangles that would automatically center the image and mask off the exterior falloff.<br />
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Done and done! Now to make this thing exist in physical space...<br />
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In keeping with the theme of ambiguous interior/exterior relationships from <i>Without_Within, </i>I thought it might be an interesting format to build the "window" to look like a light box, but with the light coming from without rather than within (via projection). So I visited my local art supply store (Home Depot) and picked up some wood and plexiglass.</div>
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I also had the presence of mind, having fought with countless pedestals and projector mounts in the past, to finally spring for some right angle clamps and a nail gun. ...I'm not actually sure how I managed to get this far without them, really!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I don't know why, but I've always found joint compound to be the most satisfying part of a woodworking project!</td></tr>
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I frosted the glass and put it on top of a white masonite board in order to get as crisp and bright a projection surface as possible, but wanted to make sure to retain the gloss of the plexi to make it feel distinctly like something between a window and a screen.<br />
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Flipping the frame face down, I laid down the plexi and masonite and fixed them in place with some handy glazier points I had left over from framing a drawing, and then reinforced the whole shebang with a wooden crossbar pressing it all down flat.<br />
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And finally I primed and painted it, and wired the back for hanging!<br />
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A side note - I'm always looking for those interesting accidental properties of a project that can turn into further studio experiments - as I tested out my new light box projection screen, I found this nice double image oddity when projecting through the frosted plexi floated a distance above the white surface behind it:</div>
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Back at the gallery, it was go time. Time for me to put all this on-the-fly scalability to the test. The first task was to set up the Kinect sensor in the corner of the room where it could view people's interactions, and get all the wiring neatly in place. With that in place, Paul was nice enough to help build a projector mount that would accommodate the odd ceiling.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">suspended by cargo straps from the AC ducts and a makeshift scenery rail, it comfortably holds my projector and Mac Mini, along with al the wiring and some glued wooden shims to get the right downward angle.</td></tr>
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As it turned out, my scalable projection not only worked perfectly, but was entirely unnecessary! I was able to keystone correct the image to fit it to the frame perfectly without ever having to touch the proportions of the imagery itself! Oh well, at least I now have a strategy for the future!<br />
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The imagery consists of recursive repetitions (as if in a two way glass "infinity mirror") captured from 3 zones of physical space within the gallery. Conceptually, I was interested in the idea of visually de-centering the recursive images, as if pulling the center of the self outside of the self and giving the viewer a perspective (or multiple perspectives) outside of himself. Then the colors of each viewer can commingle in a relational enactment of digital color theory. The self become located within and without, intermixed with the selves of others. The viewer stands both inside and outside the window, both inside the light box and outside depending on wether the inside is demarcated by the frame or by the source of the light.<br />
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Eric Valosinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16878833018032552923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1970368935491343684.post-74624983411454302012015-08-28T22:40:00.000-04:002015-08-28T22:40:12.052-04:00For()Loop Meditation 0.2 (Prototype)After the success of my first drawing in this new series at Gallery Aferro's benefit auction,<i> <a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2015/06/forloop-meditations.html" target="_blank">For()Loop Meditation 0.1 (Prototype)</a>, </i>I was eager to get started on the next!<br />
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In the series, I use circuit diagrams from prototypes of an<a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2014/03/how-computers-meditate-new-project.html" target="_blank"> installation I'm working on</a> as cosmological diagrams, reconfiguring them into mandala-like geometric arrangements. The installation consists of pushbutton prayer beads that will control a meditation on an image one pixel at a time, changing the light in the room to the color of each pixel. The QR codes in the drawings replicate a similar effect on the screen of the viewer's phone.<br />
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For the second iteration, I decided to try out a different configuration of the same circuit diagram, moving from the LEDs out to the pushbuttons, rather than the more vertical orientation seen above.<br />
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First I plot out the design, and then lay it over the paper I will use. I then trace the image, impressing the lines into the paper beneath. I like the sort of additive-subtractive there-not there push and pull it creates, emerging as the negative space of the charcoal rubbing (becoming positive space). It seems very apophatic to me.<br />
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Next I rub the charcoal over the surface to watch the lines emerge.<br />
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The next step was where I began experimenting a bit. In adding color, I first used fine markers, drawing right into the minuscule white grooves in the first iteration. However, that muddied quite easily if I wasn't careful, and also had a bit of a restricted palette. </div>
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I wanted to find a more versatile and reliable method, so I began researching liner brush techniques and studying master sign painters a bit (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=034gDriAImo" target="_blank">here's one of the more helpful [and endearing] videos I found</a>). With the right solution of watered down acrylic paint, and surprisingly less practice than I anticipated needing, I was able to get pretty good results.</div>
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Then it was just a matter of pretending to be <a href="http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/bh.html" target="_blank">Isaac Newton</a>, selecting the most cosmically harmonious and "complete" palette I could. Dividing the 360 degrees of a circle into 9 sections (for each "bead" drawn), I found the corresponding color of that degree on a color wheel, and painted accordingly. For the LED interior, each cluster of diodes contains an R, G, and B, encased by one of the 9 previously used colors, sweeping from left to right (to balance the warm and cool colors as they tended to run the opposite direction in the outer circle). Then each RGB color is followed out to its MOSFET transistor and terminating pin on what would be the Arduino.</div>
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I'll probably try a few more configurations of this prototype before moving on to a new circuit diagram, but I'm also eager to do some related drawings of the pushbuttons themselves, or perhaps incorporating and image which would be cycled through in pixel form by the QR code.<br />
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After working on so many projection installations lately, it feels good to draw!<br />
<br />Eric Valosinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16878833018032552923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1970368935491343684.post-50896742408978734652015-08-10T23:40:00.000-04:002015-08-10T23:40:22.171-04:00The Final Fourfold (Four Now...)Greetings, art fans! As I endeavor to wrap up some posts on <i>Fourfold</i>, my collaborative exhibition with <a href="http://www.christinesoccio.com/" target="_blank">Christine Soccio</a> and <a href="http://cargocollective.com/johnspano" target="_blank">John Spano</a>, I wanted in this final post to share some photos and videos from events during the show's run. I promised to be brief, so if you're looking for more explanation, you can mine all these good links of my other posts on this endeavor below!<br />
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<a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2015/04/fourfold-collaborative-exhibition.html" target="_blank">Fourfold - A Collaborative Exhibition</a> - our first site visit and the beginnings of our concept for the show<br />
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<a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2015/06/fourfold-meditation-14.html" target="_blank">Fourfold - Meditation 1.4</a> - Behind the scenes of my site specific drawings for the exhibition<br />
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<a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-threefold-fourfold-in-twofold.html" target="_blank">The Threefold Fourfold, In Twofold Fivefold</a> - Behind the scenes of my fourfold projection negation project<br />
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<a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-finished-fourfold-collaboration-and.html" target="_blank">The Finished Fourfold: Collaboration and Multi-Site Exhibition</a> - An overview of the finished exhibition<br />
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The lineup of events began with a spectacular opening reception. Then, in the spirit of collaboration, <i>Fourfold</i> became the setting for a really superb original music/DJ performance by <a href="https://soundcloud.com/thefreqshownj" target="_blank">The Freq(uency) Show</a>, featuring live beats, projection visualizations, and a hip hop tap dance collaboration that would knock your socks off (Seriously, check these guys out!). And lastly, we closed out our run with an artist talk. Enjoy!</div>
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Eric Valosinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16878833018032552923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1970368935491343684.post-79722882572404809932015-08-08T11:46:00.001-04:002015-08-11T00:00:45.823-04:00The Finished Fourfold: Collaboration and Multi-Site Exhibition This summer from May 20 through June 30, (2015) <a href="http://www.christinesocio.com/" target="_blank">Christine Soccio</a>, <a href="http://cargocollective.com/johnspano" target="_blank">John Spano</a>, and I embarked on a collaborative adventure. If you've been following this project, pardon a bit of redundancy, but if you're stumbling onto this post without context, this should be a pretty comprehensive overview. We decided to take philosopher Martin Heidegger's notion of the interrelated modes of being of the "fourfold" as an impetus for collaboration. Joined by the commonality of light as a frequently used medium, we decided to ply our otherwise very different practices together and see what emerges. This exhibition, <i>Fourfold</i>, at Solo(s) Project House in Newark, NJ was the result!<br />
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Fourfold Collaboration</h3>
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The main attraction, as it were, was an entirely collaborative project, in which we used digital projection, laser cut plexi, acrylic rods, a custom hole cut into a wall, glow in the dark paint, an arduino, and some strategic lighting to compile the 5 layers of an Ammann grid. You can follow this link for a post about the <a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2015/08/fourfold-collaboration.html" target="_blank">backstory about its conception and installation.</a> Here's the final project:</div>
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While the automated shutter is open, text imagery is projected through the plexi grid and through the window onto the back wall within the darkened room, casting reflected and refracted images as well as the viewer's shadow into various places in the gallery (the walls on either side of the window, the side wall, the wall behind the projector, etc)</div>
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Then when the shutter closes, turning off the projector, The phosphorescent panels inside the darkened room glow with a photographic memory of the grid imaged, compiled from the 5 distinct layers.</div>
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Meanwhile, this main collaborative project sat in the midst of many other pseudo collaborations, in which we individually applied each other's practices to our own, funneling the concepts, materials, and subject matter of each other artist through our own modes of making work. </div>
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My projects were the following, a <a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2015/06/fourfold-meditation-14.html" target="_blank">series of drawings</a> and a <a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-threefold-fourfold-in-twofold.html" target="_blank">projection negation</a> installation, each of which you can read more about at the above links. Here are some final images.</div>
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Two drawings, one for each venue (for the first portion of the exhibition it was a multi site exhibition... more on that below). Each uses the floor plan of the respective gallery as the basis for mandala like imagery, with a functioning QR code that takes the viewer to a live stream video of that gallery. The charcoal is a nod to John's smoke usage, and the process of erasure (from my own practice) reveals Christine's Ammann Grid.</div>
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John's individual works: an analogue projection borrowing from Christine's patterns and my use of stained glass, and a print conflating his hazmat man with Christine's Ammann grid and my QR code imagery</div>
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Christine's pieces, laser cut plexi with light projecting through them, one combining my QR codes with John's hazmat, the other with his Calvin Klein ad usage.<br />
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And finally, the last component of the exhibition was its interconnectedness with its sister space in NY, R.Jampol Project(s). We wired up several live streaming video feeds to connect the two venues together virtually, dubbing one wall in the Newark gallery the "Portal to the Lower East Side."</div>
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After the NY run was through, we converted the projection to a recursive live feed of the Newark gallery, viewed from behind one of Christine's plexi pieces. This way it would view viewers as they view themselves viewing the view of themselves viewing.... and so on... as filter through the colors of the collaborative imagery of her piece.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">setting up the camera</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">positioning it behind Christine's work</td></tr>
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And that about wraps up this exhibition. In my next (much briefer, I promise) post, I'll share some photos and videos from the opening and other events, and then I believe we should be all caught up to speed!<br />
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A Directory of the other posts about this project:</div>
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THE COLLABORATION:</h3>
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<a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2015/04/fourfold-collaborative-exhibition.html" target="_blank">Fourfold - A Collaborative Exhibition</a> - our first site visit and the beginnings of our concept for the show</div>
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<a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2015/08/fourfold-collaboration.html" target="_blank">Fourfold Collaboration</a> - building and installing the main collaborative installation</div>
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INDIVIDUAL WORKS:</h3>
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<a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2015/06/fourfold-meditation-14.html" target="_blank">Fourfold - Meditation 1.4</a> - Behind the scenes of my site specific drawings for the exhibition</div>
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<a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-threefold-fourfold-in-twofold.html" target="_blank">The Threefold Fourfold, In Twofold Fivefold</a> - Behind the scenes of my fourfold projection negation project</div>
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FINISHED PROJECTS:</h3>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><u>The Finished Fourfold: Collaboration and Multi-Site Exhibition</u> - An overview of the finished exhibition </span>(You Are Here)</div>
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<a href="http://artblogos.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-final-fourfold-four-now.html" target="_blank">The Final Fourfold (Four Now...)</a> - Images from the opening reception and other events</div>
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