LOCOMOTOART OPEN STUDIO OCT 7 - NOV 7, 2018 BY DROP IN BY APPOINTMENT
PUBLIC EVENT:
CULTURE DAYS
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
FROM 1:00 pm TO 4:00 pm
Vancouver artists Dave Leith, Rob Scharein, Merlyn Chipman and Laura Lee Coles of LocoMotoArt, invite the public to visit their digital media studio on the third floor of Aberthau Mansion, West Point Grey Community Centre. Visitors will enjoy a variety of interactive sound and visual installations, including experiences with meditative ambient sound and video works.
Friday, Sept. 28 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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DAVE LEITH & LAURA LEE COLES
Dave Leith and Laura Lee Coles will present a series of short ambient sound and video works, which provide immersive and meditative experiences. The first work, Remembrance, depicts impressions of the former tide pool area of Kapoho on the Big Island of Hawai'i. Coles filmed in this area in April of 2018, but soon after she left the island, this specific tide pool area was covered with lava from the Kilauea volcano eruption in early May adding 250 acres of new land mass. Lamenting the immense upheaval, loss of homes and transformative change to this area, Coles shares a moment of time of a place that no longer exists. Dave Leith created a soundscape to accompany the visual memory scape, as a means to enhance the moment of abrupt change. The artists seek to share the past as the present and the present as the past as an uncanny fusion. All that remains for Coles are the digital files. In this intertwining of the use of technology and the human sense of interconnectedness to nature, the artists attempt to share a moment of interconnectedness that can no longer be experienced in real time "nature" because all that remains of this place is the technological nature. The new land mass is yet to be experienced as currently it isn't safe to enter and may not be for years to come. Leith's soundscape compositions are from imagination, influenced by the Coles' images. Combined, the sound and visuals become a testimonial -- a remembrance - to what once was and what is yet to become.
DAVE LEITH
Dave Leith will present photographic prints from his series Going One Way. Leith visited various areas throughout the city and video taped scenes of people engaging in and with urban natural space and place. The video was then processed using the MaxMSP/Jitter software to create the slit scan image. Giving only a glimpse of being in locale, the elongation of time and split space questions whether existence is as we actually perceive it to be. The photographs to be shown during the Open House are strictly from the Kitsilano Beach, and Downtown area of Vancouver.
“Space and place” are components of the living world, which have biological connections that can be mapped, measured, calculated, and used via the experiential. Within this concept of space and place, we find that both resonate multiple qualities, meanings and mediated symbolism, which we often take for granted. (Coles, 2015 in Disrupting Conventional Boundaries of Public Art In Urban Space, from the proceedings of the international Symposium on Electronic Arts- Vancouver.
“Space and place” are components of the living world, which have biological connections that can be mapped, measured, calculated, and used via the experiential. Within this concept of space and place, we find that both resonate multiple qualities, meanings and mediated symbolism, which we often take for granted. (Coles, 2015 in Disrupting Conventional Boundaries of Public Art In Urban Space, from the proceedings of the international Symposium on Electronic Arts- Vancouver.
ROB SCHAREIN - INTERACTIVE AND EXPERIENTIAL INSTALLATIONS
Rob Scharein will show various projects and gesture controlled interactive experiences using Knot Plot, including the enhanced digital kaleidoscope Moments of Happiness.
Mandalas, Meanders and More
Knots and tangles are everywhere, from hair braids and knotted fish to tangled extension cords and DNA molecules. Knot theory is also an exciting branch of modern mathematics, with interesting and sometimes unexpected applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry and even the movement of dancers and robots. It's often said that Mathematics is the science of patterns. Of all patterns, knots are among the most robust, the most universal. For this reason, their scientific applications are so wide spread. In addition, knots find themselves as universal forms of cultural and artistic expression. Knot tying is one of humanity's oldest technologies. Knots are the common thread tying these subjects to one another, interleaving the cultural and scientific ways of knowing.
This piece explores the visual beauty of knots and tangles using the KnotPlot software that I've been developing for more than 25 years. Presented in stereoscopic 3D, participants will explore a variety of fascinating patterns, some in the form of well-ordered mandalas, others perhaps chaotic and random. Many of the shapes are created algorithmically on-the-fly, never to be seen again.
Knots and tangles are everywhere, from hair braids and knotted fish to tangled extension cords and DNA molecules. Knot theory is also an exciting branch of modern mathematics, with interesting and sometimes unexpected applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry and even the movement of dancers and robots. It's often said that Mathematics is the science of patterns. Of all patterns, knots are among the most robust, the most universal. For this reason, their scientific applications are so wide spread. In addition, knots find themselves as universal forms of cultural and artistic expression. Knot tying is one of humanity's oldest technologies. Knots are the common thread tying these subjects to one another, interleaving the cultural and scientific ways of knowing.
This piece explores the visual beauty of knots and tangles using the KnotPlot software that I've been developing for more than 25 years. Presented in stereoscopic 3D, participants will explore a variety of fascinating patterns, some in the form of well-ordered mandalas, others perhaps chaotic and random. Many of the shapes are created algorithmically on-the-fly, never to be seen again.
Laura Lee Coles
During the five-year artist residency at Aberthau Mansion/West Point Grey Community Centre, Laura Lee Coles has photographed trees in Jericho Park at various seasons, weather conditions and time of day. The exploration purposefully did not depend on photographic "Golden Light" which is standard for photographic practices. Rather Coles instigated shooting in rain, flat lighting, overcast lighting, morning, midday and evening lighting, which produced a series of images resonating dream scape imagery. Coles also instituted spontaneous spatiality, in purposefully not standing at the same location for the capture. Instead, she chose to let the landscape, time, lighting chose her positioning. Coles will present a a series of photographs from this photo study during the Open House.
Laura Lee Coles - Urban Caution - Photographic prints.
"Urban Caution" is a photo study conducted in Jericho Park. The photo work captures the intersection of natural setting and human intervention. It is within altered natural space, that Coles reveals the interruption of enjoyed park space and its juxtaposition tp the wildlife residents of the park. Coles attempts to show the abstract influences can lead to poetic rationales....Is it an intrusion or intervention of bureaucratic action? Coupled with evidence of human environmental indifference, trash found in natural setting and the ever presence of the caution barriers, certain areas of the park takes on a nuance of stopped freedoms.