Gjon Mili
stroboscopic image of a trick shot by billiards champion Willie Hoppe
1941
Michael Heizer
Double Negative
1969-70
land art (and overhead satellite view)
1500’ x 50’ x 30’
Mormon Mesa, Nevada
Dennis Oppenheim
Two Stage Transfer Drawing
1971
performance
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“As I run a marker along Eric’s back he attempts to duplicate the movement on the wall. My activity stimulates a kinetic response from his sensory system. I am, therefore, Drawing Through Him”
Spin the bottle
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Dark matter, this
All fumble and handed
Strange charmer you
Are (will be (already)
You
You
Fall toward midnight
Depths pulling darkly
Strong our way curving
There, warmer than the
Math said dizzy (x) we
Expon’t upon these
Intensity pulsings
Here, these (x)yzz-vectors
Beginning to tremble we
Flip
Right through the bottle
Left you silkspinning
Still.
So stellar, this
Anouk Wipprecht
Spider Dress
2012
robotic fashion
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a dress with insect-like robotic limbs which react to the proximity of others
Swapnaa Tamhane
The Institute of Knots
2012
performative installation
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Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Independent Projects
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art courtyard, Toronto
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“Viewers were invited to make knots, while I unknotted the knots simultaneously.”
Department of Biological Flow
Pac-Man Death Ritual
2012
process machine for kleinian gamespace
Austin, Texas
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An aesthetico-ethical gamespace is pre-imaged in Austin, TX, featuring a topological folding of the infamous Pac-Man videogame. The Department of Biological Flow players are to move in variations of 8-bit robotic through grid-like formations around an irregular gameboard.
Banana rewards await, and will be ingested.
Just as Pac-Man folds in upon itself at death, so too will the players — attempting an inversion of the body as if a contracting klein bottle in the death throes of impulsion. The banana peel remains — as remains — of this infolding or unfolding. And again and again, until the gaming process is complete.
Only en route do they find out the gamespace has already begun.
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Performance time: approximately 3.5 hours or 20 minutes.
