Adaptation- Russian

Introduction to the Adaptation gallery.

In this work, a bicycle generator powers a water pump and lighting system for a plantation of hydroponically grown, edible plants. The plants provide nourishment for the biker, and this sealed micro-ecosystem asks: What are the limits of human sustainability?

LoopLoop is made from a sequence captured in a train en route to Hanoi. The 1,000 images of this sequence were stitched into one long panoramic image and integrated with other moving elements. Using smooth transitions, animation, and time shifts, the video runs forward and backward, looking for forgotten details, mimicking the way memories are replayed in the mind.

These are skeptical paintings, depicting mounds of old and obsolete computers and televisions rupturing the crisp, wire-frame façade of virtualesque scenes. Computers and televisions (these amalgams of plastic, heavy metals, and other toxic wastes, these transmitters of fantasy, ideology, identity, and creators of virtual worlds) are depicted as accumulating waste in the process of becoming toxic nightmares.

Website Impersonations: The Next Generation is a new installation and live performance series that utilizes web code as layout and choreography.

A large umbrella acts as an overhead screen upon which animations shift through various destinations, with the top of the umbrella pole acting as a locator. Climate news, weather, and time are gathered from real-time RSS feeds and layered over an illuminated light-pollution satellite image of the globe.

The Quintessence performance builds upon the characteristics of the elements. Each element is represented by one player, with video acting as an additional comment-track to the music, containing all five elements.

Ecosystems are populated with mundane objects that comprise our modern existence: household appliances, zip ties, water tubes, lights, computer parts, cheap motorized toys, and the like. The objects are dissected and disassembled as needed and reconstructed into experimental primitive organisms that reside on the fringes of evolutionary transformation: computer cooling fans are repurposed for locomotion, Tupperware serves as a skeletal framework, a guitar tuner is rewired to detect sound, and automatic night lights become a sensory input.

The computational world of Artificial Nature consists of organisms interacting within an environment, consuming flowing energy and matter to grow and survive, generating continuous patterns of emergent beauty.

With its peculiar, refined scenic beauty, this exploration of the chaotic enchantment of a Tokyo night view is more a sensual than a cerebral experience.