Comments on: East of Fallon http://grandtextauto.org/2004/02/03/east-of-fallon/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: andrew http://grandtextauto.org/2004/02/03/east-of-fallon/comment-page-1/#comment-782 andrew Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=215#comment-782 Michael, that piece looks really great, a great concept well executed. I've seen a few installations here and there that also train a video camera on a small model of something, but not one where the model is moving like that. But the most shocking thing like this I've ever seen in an art piece was <a href="http://www.gregorybarsamian.com/">Gregory Barsamian</a>'s exhibit of 6 kinetic sculptures, <a href="http://www.sjmusart.org/content/exhibitions/past/exhibition_info.phtml?itemID=98"><i>Innuendo Non Troppo</i></a>, at the San Jose Museum of Art. I could not believe what I was seeing. It took a while to figure out what was going on. I truly felt like I stepped into some alternate universe for a sec there. Here's <a href="http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/gallery/gallery343/barsamian2.html">more</a> describing it. Michael, that piece looks really great, a great concept well executed. I’ve seen a few installations here and there that also train a video camera on a small model of something, but not one where the model is moving like that.

But the most shocking thing like this I’ve ever seen in an art piece was Gregory Barsamian‘s exhibit of 6 kinetic sculptures, Innuendo Non Troppo, at the San Jose Museum of Art. I could not believe what I was seeing. It took a while to figure out what was going on. I truly felt like I stepped into some alternate universe for a sec there.

Here’s more describing it.

]]> By: michael http://grandtextauto.org/2004/02/03/east-of-fallon/comment-page-1/#comment-783 michael Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=215#comment-783 Yeah, I saw <a href="http://www.pgharts.org/art/ex_details.cfm?id=71">Barsamian's work</a> at the <a href="http://www.pgharts.org/art/woodstreet.cfm">Wood Street Galleries</a> in Pittsburgh (a great new media venue by the way - something you might now expect in Pittsburgh, and better than anything I've found in Atlanta). When I first saw his work it blew my mind. Another great piece of machine sculpture is <a href="http://www.pgharts.org/art/ex_details.cfm?id=70">Symphony for Dot Matrix Printer</a> by Canadian art collective <a href="http://www.sat.qc.ca/the_user/">[The User]</a>. It's a room full of old dot matrix printers of various makes and models, controlled by a central computer to create a distributed musical piece out of the familiar grinding whine of such printers. Multi-channel video displays closeups of various moving parts within the printers. I spent 45 minutes hanging out with this piece - unusual in the must-assimilate-everything-as-efficiently-as-possible attitude that it's easy to slip into in galleries and museums. Yeah, I saw Barsamian’s work at the Wood Street Galleries in Pittsburgh (a great new media venue by the way – something you might now expect in Pittsburgh, and better than anything I’ve found in Atlanta). When I first saw his work it blew my mind.

Another great piece of machine sculpture is Symphony for Dot Matrix Printer by Canadian art collective [The User]. It’s a room full of old dot matrix printers of various makes and models, controlled by a central computer to create a distributed musical piece out of the familiar grinding whine of such printers. Multi-channel video displays closeups of various moving parts within the printers. I spent 45 minutes hanging out with this piece – unusual in the must-assimilate-everything-as-efficiently-as-possible attitude that it’s easy to slip into in galleries and museums.

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