Site Soundings
dal 20/1/2003 al 31/1/2003
Segnalato da
20/1/2003
Site Soundings
Deluxe Gallery, London
Digital terrains. Dennis Leigh, Jeremy Gardiner, Richard Colson. Site Soundings brings together 3 digital artists whose work is based around their response to different locations. Each artist is concerned with redefining the role of the viewer and the work of art. The viewer may remain passive and simply view at a distance, but they can also choose to become actively involved and interact with the pieces to affect dynamic change.
digital terrains
Artists:
Dennis Leigh, Jeremy Gardiner, Richard Colson
Site Soundings brings together 3 digital artists whose work is based
around their response to different locations. Each artist is concerned
with redefining the role of the viewer and the work of art. The viewer
may remain passive and simply view at a distance, but they can also
choose to become actively involved and interact with the pieces to
affect dynamic change.
Exhibition kindly supported by Thames Valley University
DENNIS LEIGH - 'CATHEDRAL OCEANS'
This is intended as a slow moving, contemplative piece. The intention is
to examine the possibilities of large scale projected work incorporating
slowly changing visual surfaces and music.
Both Sonic and visual components have evolved from the same conceptual
frame. This is concerned with promoting a reflective state of mind in
the viewer. It is also concerned literally with echoes, reflection and
reverberation, both in memory and in the physical making of the images
and music.
The music is intended to work within large architectural spaces, using
the longest possible delays and echoes to determine its rhythmic and
harmonic structure. The images are made from layered and merged
photographic material derived from many eras which shifts and dissolves
constantly, producing a gently hallucinogenic surface.
The piece is intended to operate at an opposite pole to most media,
which seem to be accelerating in pace. Its appearance can be described
as a digital, secular moving stained glass window.
JEREMY GARDINER - 'Purbeck Light Years'
During the last fifty years, when changes in technology and society have
been matched for speed by rapid and radical changes in art, landscape
has continued to command the attention of a number of artists. What
does it feel like to stare up at the night sky or to confront a
coastline? An equivalent to the way in which they act on our
sensibilities has to be found.
In response to this challenge it has been my ambition to develop a
temporal arena that encapsulates the 'genius loci' or spirit of place of
the Purbeck landscape in Dorset. Purbeck Light Years explores hybrid
techniques that combine characteristics of painting and drawing,
computer animation and immersive VR, bridging the gap between new
technologies and old ones and showing that these new developments simply
help encourage the creation of hybrid genres.
RICHARD COLSON - 'Loc-reverb'
Loc-reverb develops Colson's themes of location and memory, concerns
seen in an earlier CD-ROM 'Mindtracker'.
Loc-reverb blends photography and moving elements to portray the
artist's interrogation of locations. It presents the viewer with the
changing dynamics of sight, trapping the eye, delaying comprehension and
suspending perception so that the sense of space is uncertain. Moving
elements move in response to a track-ball.
Exhibition: 22nd - 31st Jan 2003.
Open: 11-6 Mon-Fri, Sat: 12-5.
Private View: 21st January, 6-9pm.
Image: a work by Richard Colson
Deluxe-Arts
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