A multimedia installation in collaboration with:
Molly Rennie, aka Memole,
and Godine Family Gallery
March 16-21, 2015
Godine Family Gallery, Boston
and Anti-Immersive Gallery through April 30, 2015
Reception: Thursday, March 19
Godine Family Gallery
Anti-Immersive Gallery's THE HOLODECK is an installation allowing artworks that have no physical form to be displayed in an imagined interior space. This show can be seen in two ways: through the personal scale of ones own computer at anti-immersive.com, and at a human scale projected onto the walls of Godine Family Gallery, Boston.
The patterning found on the art-objects in THE HOLODECK is derived from screenshots of abstractions that occur when using Unity, a videogame design program. Printouts do not do justice to these images, so the imagery must be viewed through a computer interface. The forms that these images were wrapped around for this installation are arbitrary: the goal was to have the initial screenshots become distorted by making them sculptural. The only exception to the source materials used is a photograph of a painting, but this was also warped into another creature altogether.
The incorporation of sound design made by Memole played a key part in the creation of THE HOLODECK. By encountering various sounds embedded within objects, the gallery becomes an interactive score outputting music to the viewer. Players dictate the ebb and flow of what they hear based on their trajectories.
