RIO
2017
In studios, on stage, programming sessions, rehearsals, blowing hot glass, wandering the internets, sketchbooks, tools, travels abroad, staying at home, installation diagrams, virtual states, openings, closings, classrooms, residencies, workshops and late night tales over Becherovka (a revered Czech liqueur) - these moments are among thousands of accumulating cellphone photos that comprise the artifacts of a creative life.
Rio utilizes real-time (live) image processing to animate, shuffle, shred, bend, fold and rearrange a database of snapshots set adrift into a fluid stream. The result is a shape-shifting structure that evokes both mechanized processes and natural phenomena including water wheels, windmills, looms, paper scrolls, document shredders, thickets of pond reeds, falling leaves, river currents, dissipation of memory and cellular decay.
The piece was realized with the nFolder custom software developed over the past decade with my frequent collaborator, Cory Metcalf and the invaluable assistance from artist-programmer-musician, Stephen Lucas.
