Silent Gallery Concept
The concept behind the show involves viewing art in a space in which no vocal communication is allowed. Viewers were given notepad with which to communicate. This was the third in a series of silent events, including a dinner party and barbecue. Viewers could also draw actions to perform throughout the evening. The event started at 7 and the silence was broken 3 hours later by a live band, with a dance party commencing soon afterwards. About dozen artists showed new and old work at the event.Installation
Seaweed Factory presented a small collection of work based on the themes of parallel reality, the ability to change your mind and iterative works in malleable digital media.
Rejected Ideas
This interactive piece invites the viewer to explore a wastepaper basket of rejected visual and narrative ideas. The installation suggests the viewer take a piece from the basket, uncrumple it and examine the contents. After consideration, the viewer is invited to take the piece or crumple it back up and place it in the basket. The viewer was also invited to add their own rejected ideas to the basket for others to explore using the attached notepad and pen.
Below are the rejected ideas submitted by gallery viewers.
Here are some photos of viewers interacting with the installation, as well as a lighting test. Originally the piece was designed for a darker room.
Broken Ocean
The poster size piece was constructed from recycling rejected artwork produced for the Bytmasque album. The four cells each show a digital ocean full of garbage date being degraded, much like the actual ocean just off our coast. Produced using Mariopaint software and emulation technology.
Bytmasque (various)
The smaller pieces hanging about contain rejected elements from production of the Bytmasque album. Many feature alternate processing of a 2013 piece called Sound Surface, which used a homemade audio level detector coupled with a GPS receiver to build 2D wireframe sound maps of Congress St in Portland, Maine. Many images were processed through an analog CRT display with intentional miswired display cables, which produced most of the coloration seen, as well as analog artifacts.
Videocult Novella (Work In Progress)
The binder on the table contains a collection of notes and short stories related to an in-process novella called Videocult. Work on this novella began 4 years ago and was largely inspired by the development boom in the city of Portland, Maine. The story itself examines the collision of parallel realities, the origins of creativity and a mythos of sinister gentrification.
Videocult Novella (Work In Progress) (11/17/2019)
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