UTC Biennial Faculty Exhibit

PMA Faculty have work in the Cress Gallery 2. Each work explores individual research/motivations and integrates some form of media and/or technology.

Lewis' work "Skylight
(nonfiction)" 
acts 
as
 an
 architectural
 feature
 and
 extension
 of
 the gallery.
Utilizing
 a 
live
 video
 feed
 from
 a 
camera 
placed
 on
 the 
roof
 of 
the 
gallery, 
this 
work 
contains
 a
 digitized
 experience 
of
 the 
natural
 sky
 in 
real
time.

The 
screen
 contents 
continue
 to 
evolve
 with
 the 
sky;
 providing 
a
 mediated
 view
 of
 what
 is 
beyond 
the
 gallery.
Through 
our 
connection 
to
 digital
 and
 natural
 environments, 
along
 with
 the 
relationship
 between
 the
 actual
 and
 representational, 
our 
awareness
 of
 each
 is
 questioned.


Trowbridge's Arduino controlled work, A Message Never Received, transmits the words "A Message Never Received," letter by letter, in American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) code, represented in 7-bit binary with an additional bit to represent the end of each message. The message is transmitted via eight laser diodes across space and onto a front-surface mirror that reflects it. The piece occurs at an intersection of giving up on all communication and becoming open to the possibilities that surrender might offer. Is it possible to form a community during the extinction of a civilization? As one stands against intersubjectivity, shared cognition, or any collective basis for meaning, purpose and communication, it is not a given that one must stand alone. Whatever happens... HOW TO FIND EACH OTHER?

Westbrook's project "Product Placements," is an interactive wiimote controlled moving image sequence intersecting non-nutritional food habits with drive-by natural worlds. It is a formula for delightful nothingness, and presents a spectacle of branded presence that communicates using text and visual language, but has nothing to say.