"Firefly" responds to light to create four
frequencies
of electronic events. The frequencies combine to cause the
red lights
to
stream up and down the Self Portrait. Patterns of green
lights' travel
in the the middle of the red streams are the result of a
logic
operation
(an exclusive "or") on these two streams. Sounds cause the
nature of
the
patterns to change. The Cosmic Bubble is a mandala of 144
lights
generated
geometrically. It first appears in Twelfth century Islamic
mosaics.
In 2020, D.I.A. gallery teacher, Andrea Del Rio made this 4
minute video
for kids of one of her favorite works in the collection . |
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Plastic and electronic components; figure: 208.3 x 71.1 cm
(82 x 28
in.), bubble: diameter 16.2 cm (30 in.) Detroit Institute of Arts Founders Society Purchase, Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture General Fund with funds from the Stroh Foundation, Vivian Day, John W. Stroh Ill, Jean and Joseph Hudson, Jr., and Sidney M. Hiller (1996.38) |
(84" x 40 x 48 (inflated), Painted steel, "ear"
circuit
and polyethylene bag and fan.)
Although the artist loves to hear the above
praises,
the head, of course, inflates if it hears anything at all.
Click on either image to see a 200kb.animation of this
sculpture.
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