Semi-Automated Audio Visual demonstration. June 2010

Transmission: Salmon Run, 2009
Flash animation and custom max/msp A/V construction, melded through an automated Jitter effect sequence

The work is formed by two video feeds. On the left are 3 compound blobs morphing between themselves, struggling for identity. On the right is an “oscilloscope” read representing parametric changes to the performed audio.

Through tempered feedback these Salmon make their seasonal return trip to their place of birth visible to the viewer.

As an artist and as a man I often question my inherent compulsion to both create and procreate. For these fish, the return journey is carnal even as it utilizes an abstraction of the former trip as an experiential manner of intelligence. The thirst for youth is ultimately embedded with a trojan machination of nature. One which reiterates our gathered wit and project within our spawn.

“After Géricault”
(How Many Preparators Does it Take to Screw in a Lightbulb?)
- Ian Brill, 2009 

Premiers Friday December 11th,
as part of “Behind Our Scene” at Space Gallery, Pittsburgh

A one-pass sample. The piece has no beginning or end, and is always different.

Addressing both the “The Raft of the Medusa” and the reutilized premise of “changing a light bulb” this generative work uses modern digital tools and illusions to present the processes and recordings of an artist as an ever-changing image, or painting.

While addressing both the brutality of the Romantic painting and the necessity of fellow laborers to laugh off the harshnesses of life, through the unexpected abstraction of a familiar reality this work invites the viewer to retreat farther into a state of nature to consider our own motives and chosen roles in society.