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TRANSMEDIA :29:59
media
art in public urban space
Curated by Michael
Alstad and Michelle
Kasprzak
September 1 - 30th, 2005:
29th minute: Pascual
Sisto - '28
YEARS IN THE IMPLICATE ORDER'
59th minute: Luke Lamborn
- 'UTOPIA'
Year Zero One is pleased to present TRANSMEDIA :29:59,
a year long exhibition on the pedestrian level video
billboard at Yonge-Dundas Square in downtown Toronto.
Launched August 1st 2005, TRANSMEDIA :29:59 features
one minute video works 24/7 every half hour on the 29th
and 59th minutes.
Featured for the month of September is Pascual
Sisto's '28 Years in the Implicate Order' & Luke
Lamborn's 'Utopia'.
Pascual Sisto's '28
Year in the Implicate Order' is a work based on
the concepts of Quantum Theory and Quantum Mechanics
as described by David Bohm. The video consists of a
fixed locked off shot of an empty parking lot. A centered
sodium vapor light illuminates the desolate landscape.
28 red balls bounce up and down in a chaotic random
order. Each ball performing as an individual entity
bouncing at its own rate and speed. As the video progresses
towards its mid point, the balls align themselves in
a harmonious blanket. Breathing in and out as a cumulative
frequency, they reach the point where they all bounce
at the same precise moment and then resume to go back
into chaos.m.
Luke Lamborn's 'Utopia'
Analyzes the idea of clean, perfect, and tireless machinery
couched in the unstable landscape of reality. Utopia
functions as a perpetual motion machine, performing
as a stable power source, regardless of inconsistencies
in the wind. It is a utopian vision of wind power. Utopia
was created through a motion-tracking program written
in Max/MSP using footage of a wind turbine shot in central
New York. Three identical clips of the turbine are superimposed
upon each other, all playing at different speeds. The
speed of the clips are regulated by the propeller rotation
of the first clip which slows down, stops, and gains
momentum in varying spurts during the course of the
taping. If the blade slows down, the speed of the superimposed
footage speeds up to compensate. As the speed of this
second clip accelerates, the speed of the third clip
declines. Thus, the mean rotation rate always remains
constant. The three dots at the bottom indicate the
speed of each clip and blink when the propeller blade
reaches the apex of its rotation. In essence, Utopia
is a video that is generated based upon it’s own
content.
BIOS
Pascual
Sisto was raised in Barcelona, Spain and studied
art and film in Barcelona before coming to Los Angeles
in 1995. Upon graduating with a BFA in film from
Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in December
1999, Sisto began working as a freelance visual FX artist
and animator. In December 2000, he signed with Satellite
Films (a division of Propaganda Films) for music video
representation until its closure in 2001, sharing a
roster with fellow directors Spike Jonze, Dante Ariola
and Melody McDaniel. Since then he has directed an acclaimed
short film (Oceano 2002) and worked on mixed media projects
and video installations before the creation of Swift
Gallery in 2004. Swift Gallery Foundation is an artist-run
non -profit curatorial organization for provocative
art and culture based in Los Angeles, California.
Luke Lamborn is
an emerging artist examining new ways of altering and
enhancing perception through digital technologies. He
has exhibited and screened his artwork throughout the
US and internationally. He obtained a BFA in digital
media at the University of Colorado at Boulder, graduating
summa cum laude. Currently, Lamborn is pursuing his
MFA in computer art in the Department of Transmedia
at Syracuse University.
Year
Zero One gratefully acknowledges Yonge-Dundas Square
and Clearchannel for their support of Transmedia :29:59.
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