Photo-Kinetic Grid
2018
Brazed chain link fence, acrylic tiles, video cameras, projectors, and light
Installation: 18’ H x 40’ W x 20’ D
Commissioned by North Carolina Museum of Art
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, USA, You Are Here: Light, Color, and Sound Experiences, April 7 through July 22, 2018
Artist Project Statement, Sculpting with Light
My work reconfigures boundary materials—fencing, glass and plastic windows, sheetrock walls—to expand and explore a variety of liminal spaces: spaces between inside and outside, sculpture and drawing, image and object, vision and what we see. Light is an elusive liminal being, and in recent work I have tried to use light as a sculptural material alongside the more concrete stuff that usually goes into making an installation.
Here, I explore kinetic sculpture in a new way. If light is a material out of which the work is made, can light be an interesting kinetic element? Can it be the only kinetic element? And would such a piece allow us to explore liminal spaces in a new way?
The primary light sources are eight projectors (white point illuminant), connected to eight cameras, which they strain to capture the silver surfaces (no local color) and repeatedly try to throw something back onto the reflective surfaces. In doing so, they constantly change the image, producing feedback loop which are inherently unstable. All of the color is generated by the strained camera-projector cycles in which subtle chromatic cues are enhanced by rapid feedback of visible light. Small movements of the grid, and even the reflections of spectators in the tiles, can also affect the loop and thus the form of the installation. The work here is a living assemblage of all of them. In that sense, this is a kinetic work, in constant, evolving motion, even though most of its concrete parts are still.
During COVID 2020
DATMA LIGHT20/20 #See the Light
The coronavirus pandemic changed how we experience art. A concert, a play, a visit to an art gallery or museum in the close company of others; these things belong to a world available now only in memory, with the hope that they will one day return. Nn New Bedford, a sparkling public art exhibit is now on view for any art lover, masked and socially distanced, to experience.
· DATMA + Light2020 + Community Foundation of SE Mass vimeo
· WGBH’s Open Studios hosts DATMA to talk more about Light:2020
· The Public’s Radio: New Bedford lights up the summer (7/2/2020): Interview with Chuck Hinman of RI Public Radio
· Where to safely see art? Motor up to New Bedford’s downtown light show, Boston Globe, June 17, 2020, 11:40 a.m.
2023: Cheongju Museum of Art
Architecture Becomes Art, Group Exhibition, invited international artists: Angela Bulloch, Paul C & VEAM, Soo Sunny Park, Neri Oxmam, and José Santos III, Cheongju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea (8/24~11/19)
Artistic Interpretation of Time and Space, KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) News 9/2/2023
· [문화가K] 시공간의 예술적 해석…‘건축·미술이 되다’ 기획전 (Culture, Artistic Interpretation of Time and Space), KBS News 9/2/2023
