Twilight Engines 2019/03/03
Twilight Engines with artist Vishal K Dar is a part of an ambitious global project: Edge of See. The app activates a series of site-specific sculptures that push our senses of vision, scale, motion, and time. Dar brings his primary question — What is the edge of sight? — to the abandoned structures of the Marin Headlands, using technology to overlay former military batteries with these “engines”. The app augments the disconnect between the site’s past and present to insert sculptural experiences that change the way the viewer sees, thinks about, and relates to the location. Moving through the liminal spaces of military sites and screen, Dar’s “engines” unlock a world of other realities.
Created by Okaynokay (Gabriel Dunne & Ryan Alexander)
Site-Specific AR activated sites and sculptures at the Marin Headlands
http://appstore.com/twilightengines
http://www.headlands.org/event/edge-of-see-twilight-engines/
Image credits: © Copyright 2019 Vishal K Dar, Okaynokay
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Latency 2017/11/02
Who: Cullen Miller & Gabriel Dunne
What: Soundwave Festival presents ‘Networked Utopias’
When: 8pm | 2 November 2017
Where: Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
“Latency”, a performance by Gabriel Dunne and Cullen Miller, delves into the experience of discontinuity in mediated digital communications. The piece builds a sonic narrative produced through affects of networks, computing, and daily devices. Foreign proxies, Ethereum mining, noise, geopolitics, reliance on private infrastructure, packet hop metadata, surveillance capitalism, and data loss are sonified through bespoke software and hardware. The piece instrumentalizes custom software applications that sonifies and visualizes network packets into unique scales as data hops through various geopolitical network topologies. Making use of an Ethereum mining rig, Miller and Dunne created an event model that converts the hash rate, block size, transaction hash, and kW/hour into modulation sources for various parameters in their synthesis model. The final movement consists of a live accompaniment from a pre-trained Amazon Alexa with inquiries about gendered labor and sous-veillance.
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Ribbon 2017/05/05
“Ribbon” is a series of 3D scans of un-fired clay forms that I’ve used in various plots and sculptures.
