We have left the land and have embarked. We have burned our bridges behind us—indeed, we have gone farther and destroyed the land behind us. Now, little ship, look out! Beside you is the ocean: to be sure, it does not always roar, and at times it lies spread out like silk and gold and reveries of graciousness. But hours will come when you will realize that it is infinite and that there is nothing more awesome than infinity. Oh, the poor bird that felt free and now strikes the walls of this cage! Woe, when you feel homesick for the land as if it had offered more freedom—and there is no longer any ‘land.’
Nietzsche, The Gay Science
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Encounters with the Material: Krzysztof Wodiczko and site-specific media art
Forthcoming in Discourse. This article examines media practices that open encounters with the material as a critical intervention into the virtual condition. It addresses Krzysztof Wodiczko’s site-specific large-scale image projections as an example of this type of media practice. Wodiczko’s work has been characterized as “interrogative,” that is, critical of social and political problems associated
lb-publicart: The foam positives for each of Meander’s 15 glass lanterns have been fabricated and are off to our glass artist to begin the casting process. Laying them out in sequence starts to give a sense of the artwork’s scale and variation.
Elected panelist (2014-2016) for the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program (MAEP) at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA)
Based on work initiated by Futures North for Lakeforms. Thank you to Jonathan Zorn, who provided us with direction on the project; Adam Marcus, Daniel Dean and Molly Reichert (Futures North) who helped brainstorm it. Preliminary sound tests 1; sound test 2.
About Timelaps is a dynamic installation that explores our rapidly shifting relationship with the natural world. Human technology has radically transformed the earth’s surface to the point that the presence of any uninhabited nature is startling amid a constructed sea of asphalt, canalized streams and rivers, and damned reservoirs. However, large bodies of water, with
