LOCOMOTOART OPEN STUDIO EVENT - EXPERIENCES + LAUGHTER + WONDER
AN EXHIBITION OF PLAYFUL INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS FOR ALL AGES
Friday, Sept. 29 1:00 – 4:30 pm and Sat Sept 30 1:00- 4:30 pm
The artists will be showing: Faciem Terrae, Moments of Happiness and Interactive Digital Geometric Art, and Digital Mosaics.
The artists will be showing: Faciem Terrae, Moments of Happiness and Interactive Digital Geometric Art, and Digital Mosaics.
MOMENTS OF HAPPINESS PROJECT: Artists Rob Scharein and Laura Lee Coles will exhibit artwork they created from the various community collaborations during visits at Sunset, Dunbar and Kerrisdale Community Centres.
ABOUT THE PROJECT: Motivated with the intent to offset the negative feelings people receive from the onslaught of news reports of global violence, hardship and tragedy, the artists will ask members of the Vancouver community to think of what makes them happy and place their moments of happiness in a database.
ABOUT THE PROJECT: Motivated with the intent to offset the negative feelings people receive from the onslaught of news reports of global violence, hardship and tragedy, the artists will ask members of the Vancouver community to think of what makes them happy and place their moments of happiness in a database.
DIGITAL MOSAICS:
Laura Lee Coles will display digital mosaics created from over 7800 photographs taken during the Sunflower Garden Project.
Laura Lee Coles will display digital mosaics created from over 7800 photographs taken during the Sunflower Garden Project.
FACIEM TERRAE - EARTH FACE - an interactive media installation with 3-D anaglyphs. This work presents the interplay of Pariedolia, that is, seeing faces in inanimate objects. This work was recently presented at the Richmond World Festival during Digital Carnival on Friday September 1, 2017 and curated by Wynne Palmer. After several requests from those who had missed it, the artists are showing it again during their Culture Days Open Studio.
The artists spent several weeks at Volcano National Park on the Big Island of Hawaii and explored several lava fields to find representations of rock faces.
As the spectator approaches and stands before randomly displayed images of “rock faces, the spectator’s face will appear and oscillate between the rock face and that of their own image.
There are also 3-D anaglyph experiences.The intent of the work is to position the spectator in a realm of imagination using pariedolia to feel as if they too have an earth face. The interplay will be playful and socially interactive. The work draws upon sense of identity, awareness, and the imagination of being on world (earth), being a part of earth, and a sense of other-worldliness.
A slide show of the documentation of field work will also be presented, which gives the viewer the opportunity to see the various lava fields in the volcano that the artists explorred.
As the spectator approaches and stands before randomly displayed images of “rock faces, the spectator’s face will appear and oscillate between the rock face and that of their own image.
There are also 3-D anaglyph experiences.The intent of the work is to position the spectator in a realm of imagination using pariedolia to feel as if they too have an earth face. The interplay will be playful and socially interactive. The work draws upon sense of identity, awareness, and the imagination of being on world (earth), being a part of earth, and a sense of other-worldliness.
A slide show of the documentation of field work will also be presented, which gives the viewer the opportunity to see the various lava fields in the volcano that the artists explorred.