Ingrid Bachmann
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Ontario
Year of Birth: 1958
City: Montreal
Country: Canada
Type of Creator: Artist, Writer
Gender: Female
Mediums: digital, installation, performance, video
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Work by Ingrid Bachmann
Rose Glasses, light box detail
Work ID: 16190
Collection:
Date Made: 1992
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Berlin Stories, installation view: OR Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 1993
Work ID: 16183
Description: Installation incorporating sound, scent, slide and video projections, telephone book 'wallpaper'.
OR Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1993; Contemporary Gallery, The Museum for Textiles, Toronto, Ontario, 1993; Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, 1992.
Artist's statement: "This piece is structured around rhythm and repetition. I was interested in exploring the relationship between personal and collective histories and the role and implication of repetition in both remembering and forgetting".
Collection:
Date Made: 1992
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Berlin Stories, detail of computer generated video animation
Work ID: 16186
Description: Installation incorporating sound, scent, slide and video projections, telephone book 'wallpaper'.
OR Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1993; Contemporary Gallery, The Museum for Textiles, Toronto, Ontario, 1993; Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, 1992.
Artist's statement: "This piece is structured around rhythm and repetition. I was interested in exploring the relationship between personal and collective histories and the role and implication of repetition in both remembering and forgetting".
Collection:
Date Made: 1992
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Nomad Web: Sleeping Beauty Awakes, computer station with direct access to Nomad Web newsgroup
Work ID: 16188
Description: An interactive network installation and Internet newsgroup project, A Nomad Web was a forum for the discussion of nomadism in a contemporary context. This project consisted of physical and electronic sites for the purpose of collecting and disseminating ongoing dialogues. Host sites included The Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, California, Cal Arts, Los Angeles, California and Capilano College, Vancouver, British Columbia. Ongoing project.
Collection:
Date Made: 1992
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Berlin Stories, detail: rotating figurine in front of slide projection
Work ID: 16184
Description: Installation incorporating sound, scent, slide and video projections, telephone book 'wallpaper'.
OR Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1993; Contemporary Gallery, The Museum for Textiles, Toronto, Ontario, 1993; Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, 1992.
Artist's statement: "This piece is structured around rhythm and repetition. I was interested in exploring the relationship between personal and collective histories and the role and implication of repetition in both remembering and forgetting".
Collection:
Date Made: 1992
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Rose Glasses, film loop detail
Work ID: 16189
Collection:
Date Made: 1992
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Berlin Stories, detail of installation
Work ID: 16185
Description: Installation incorporating sound, scent, slide and video projections, telephone book 'wallpaper'.
OR Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1993; Contemporary Gallery, The Museum for Textiles, Toronto, Ontario, 1993; Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, 1992.
Artist's statement: "This piece is structured around rhythm and repetition. I was interested in exploring the relationship between personal and collective histories and the role and implication of repetition in both remembering and forgetting".
Collection:
Date Made: 1992
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Nomad Web: Sleeping Beauty Awakes, installation view
Work ID: 16187
Description: An interactive network installation and Internet newsgroup project, A Nomad Web was a forum for the discussion of nomadism in a contemporary context. This project consisted of physical and electronic sites for the purpose of collecting and disseminating ongoing dialogues. Host sites included The Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, California, Cal Arts, Los Angeles, California and Capilano College, Vancouver, British Columbia. Ongoing project.
Collection:
Date Made: 1992
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Talking Walls: Dialogue, Ingrid and Plato, detail of chalk drawing
Work ID: 16178
Description: Interactive installation and performance.
Collection:
Date Made: 1993-1999
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Talking Walls: Dialogue, Ingrid and Plato, detail
Work ID: 16177
Description: Interactive installation and performance.
Collection:
Date Made: 1993-1999
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Talking Walls: Dialogue, Ingrid and Plato, installation view
Work ID: 16175
Description: Interactive installation and performance.
Collection:
Date Made: 1993-1999
Virtual Collection: installation, Original CCCA
Talking Walls: Dialogue, Ingrid and Plato, detail
Work ID: 16176
Description: Interactive installation and performance.
Collection:
Date Made: 1993-1999
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Fault Lines / Lignes de Faille: Measurement, Distance and Place / Mesure, distance et lieu, installation view
Work ID: 16170
Description: Installation view showing AVL Compu Dobby loom, computer and wall maps, Santa Monica, California.
In collaboration with Barbara Layne. La Centrale, Montréal, Québec, and Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, California.
Collection:
Date Made: 1995
Materials: Internet and computer loom weaving
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Fault Lines / Lignes de Faille: Measurement, Distance and Place / Mesure, distance et lieu
Work ID: 16172
Description: Detail of AVL Compu Dobby loom, with computer and participant weaving daily seismic record, Montréal, Québec.
In collaboration with Barbara Layne. La Centrale, Montréal, Québec, and Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, California.
Collection:
Date Made: 1995
Materials: Internet and computer loom weaving
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Fault Lines / Lignes de Faille: Measurement, Distance and Place / Mesure, distance et lieu
Work ID: 16171
Description: Seismograph downloaded from the Internet.
In collaboration with Barbara Layne. La Centrale, Montréal, Québec, and Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, California.
Collection:
Date Made: 1995
Materials: Internet and computer loom weaving
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Migration, detail: image pool
Work ID: 16182
Description: A site-specific installation in which viewers trigger a narrative by sitting on the bus seats, activating sound recordings. Images and maps in plexiglas 'pools' are imbedded in the earth.
Franconia Sculpture Park, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Measurements: plexiglas boxes, each: 76.2 x 76.2 x 15.24 cm; 193.04 x 193.04 x 38.1 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1997
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Knit One, Swim 2, detail of computer animation triggered by needle movements
Work ID: 16169
Measurements: needles, each: 1.237488 m; 0.3800856 m high / plexiglas tubes: 0.353568 cm; 0.88392 cm diameter x 3.182112 cm; 8.087868 cm / light boxes: 0.839724 x 0.353568 x 1.060704 cm; 2.121408 x 0.88392 x 2.695956 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1997
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Knit One, Swim 2, detail: water weights counterbalancing the knitting needles
Work ID: 16168
Measurements: needles, each: 1.237488 m; 0.3800856 m high / plexiglas tubes: 0.353568 cm; 0.88392 cm diameter x 3.182112 cm; 8.087868 cm / light boxes: 0.839724 x 0.353568 x 1.060704 cm; 2.121408 x 0.88392 x 2.695956 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1997
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Knit One, Swim 2, exterior view of installation
Work ID: 16165
Measurements: needles, each: 1.237488 m; 0.3800856 m high / plexiglas tubes: 0.353568 cm; 0.88392 cm diameter x 3.182112 cm; 8.087868 cm / light boxes: 0.839724 x 0.353568 x 1.060704 cm; 2.121408 x 0.88392 x 2.695956 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1997
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Migration, front view of installation: row of bus seats with steel supports
Work ID: 16179
Description: A site-specific installation in which viewers trigger a narrative by sitting on the bus seats, activating sound recordings. Images and maps in plexiglas 'pools' are imbedded in the earth.
Franconia Sculpture Park, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Measurements: plexiglas boxes, each: 76.2 x 76.2 x 15.24 cm; 193.04 x 193.04 x 38.1 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1997
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Knit One, Swim 2, participant manipulating needles
Work ID: 16167
Measurements: needles, each: 1.237488 m; 0.3800856 m high / plexiglas tubes: 0.353568 cm; 0.88392 cm diameter x 3.182112 cm; 8.087868 cm / light boxes: 0.839724 x 0.353568 x 1.060704 cm; 2.121408 x 0.88392 x 2.695956 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1997
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Migration, detail: bus seat with sensor
Work ID: 16181
Description: A site-specific installation in which viewers trigger a narrative by sitting on the bus seats, activating sound recordings. Images and maps in plexiglas 'pools' are imbedded in the earth.
Franconia Sculpture Park, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Measurements: plexiglas boxes, each: 76.2 x 76.2 x 15.24 cm; 193.04 x 193.04 x 38.1 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1997
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Knit One, Swim 2, interior view of installation
Work ID: 16166
Measurements: needles, each: 1.237488 m; 0.3800856 m high / plexiglas tubes: 0.353568 cm; 0.88392 cm diameter x 3.182112 cm; 8.087868 cm / light boxes: 0.839724 x 0.353568 x 1.060704 cm; 2.121408 x 0.88392 x 2.695956 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1997
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Migration, back view of installation
Work ID: 16180
Description: A site-specific installation in which viewers trigger a narrative by sitting on the bus seats, activating sound recordings. Images and maps in plexiglas 'pools' are imbedded in the earth.
Franconia Sculpture Park, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Measurements: plexiglas boxes, each: 76.2 x 76.2 x 15.24 cm; 193.04 x 193.04 x 38.1 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1997
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Interactive Still Lives, installation view
Work ID: 16153
Collection:
Date Made: 1998
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Interactive Still Life #5: Sunflower
Work ID: 16158
Measurements: 101.6 x 81.28 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1998
Materials: digital print, aluminum, steel, lens, saffron, light
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Interactive Still Life #1: Genre Scene
Work ID: 16155
Measurements: 81.28 x 101.6 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1998
Materials: digital print, aluminum, steel, lens, video
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Interactive Still Life #4: Drapery Study
Work ID: 16160
Measurements: 127 x 111.76 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1998
Materials: digital print, aluminum, steel, lens
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Interactive Still Life #5: Sunflower, detail
Work ID: 16159
Measurements: 101.6 x 81.28 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1998
Materials: digital print, aluminum, steel, lens, saffron, light
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Interactive Still Life #1: Genre Scene, detail, with video partially visible through viewing hole
Work ID: 16157
Measurements: 81.28 x 101.6 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1998
Materials: digital print, aluminum, steel, lens, video
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Interactive Still Life #1: Genre Scene, detail
Work ID: 16156
Measurements: 81.28 x 101.6 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1998
Materials: digital print, aluminum, steel, lens, video
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Interactive Still Lives, detail of participant manipulating viewfinder
Work ID: 16154
Collection:
Date Made: 1998
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Knitting Needles, detail
Work ID: 16164
Measurements: each: 0.4872 m
Collection:
Date Made: 1999
Materials: 2 aluminum knitting needles
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Knitting Needles
Work ID: 16163
Measurements: each: 0.4872 m
Collection:
Date Made: 1999
Materials: 2 aluminum knitting needles
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Waves as High as a House (for Patrick), detail
Work ID: 16162
Collection:
Date Made: 1999
Materials: silk-screened wall text, plastic boat, blue pigment, motor, cable
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Waves as High as a House (for Patrick), installation view
Work ID: 16161
Collection:
Date Made: 1999
Materials: silk-screened wall text, plastic boat, blue pigment, motor, cable
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Room 406: Bastard Amber
Work ID: 54481
Description: When a body - a human body, a social body, an institutional body - becomes ill, it leaks. And it often leaks inappropriately and without control. Water is both a healing and a destructive force. I wanted to make work where the visitor's sense of their own body was accentuated, not necessarily in a negative way, to explore the liminal space of illness and pain, as a kind of threshold space.
Bastard Amber was a site specific installation in a recently closed hospital in Montreal. The windows were covered with amber gel and fluorescent lights were inserted discreetly into the surrounding walls to create an amber glow throughout the room. Every few minutes, the interior window would weep or rain.
Tech Credits: Geoffrey James, Photo Credit: Paul Litherland
Hopital Bellechasse, Montreal, Quebec, 2001
Collection:
Date Made: 2001
Materials: water pump, copper tubing and trough, amber gel, flourescent lights, timer
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Sonar
Work ID: 54479
Description: Sonar is a site-specific performative intervention using sound, light, and water in conjuction with the architectural qualities of an out-of-use swimming pool, Bain St-Michel.
A giant (55 x 5 ft.) cloud of mist dominates the space. The mist is generated from high pressure nozzles used in green house irrigation systems. Participants are invited to walk in and around the fine spray of water using umbrellas and raincoats that are placed there for their use. The entire exhibition space is diffused in an aqua glow. As participants walk through the space, they trigger infrared sensors that activate high frequency modulated sounds that reverberate throughout the pool and circulate around the mist.
S.U.R.G.E collective - Ingrid Bachmann, Lorraine Oades, and Ana Rewacowiz.
Tech Credits: Yves Gigon - Mak Programmer, Hazel Meyer, Marcia Bakker - technical assistance
Collection:
Date Made: 2001
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Room 406: Bastard Amber
Work ID: 54483
Description: When a body - a human body, a social body, an institutional body - becomes ill, it leaks. And it often leaks inappropriately and without control. Water is both a healing and a destructive force. I wanted to make work where the visitor's sense of their own body was accentuated, not necessarily in a negative way, to explore the liminal space of illness and pain, as a kind of threshold space.
Bastard Amber was a site specific installation in a recently closed hospital in Montreal. The windows were covered with amber gel and fluorescent lights were inserted discreetly into the surrounding walls to create an amber glow throughout the room. Every few minutes, the interior window would weep or rain.
Tech Credits: Geoffrey James, Photo Credit: Paul Litherland
Hopital Bellechasse, Montreal, Quebec, 2001
Collection:
Date Made: 2001
Materials: water pump, copper tubing and trough, amber gel, flourescent lights, timer
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Room 406: Bastard Amber
Work ID: 54485
Description: When a body - a human body, a social body, an institutional body - becomes ill, it leaks. And it often leaks inappropriately and without control. Water is both a healing and a destructive force. I wanted to make work where the visitor's sense of their own body was accentuated, not necessarily in a negative way, to explore the liminal space of illness and pain, as a kind of threshold space.
Bastard Amber was a site specific installation in a recently closed hospital in Montreal. The windows were covered with amber gel and fluorescent lights were inserted discreetly into the surrounding walls to create an amber glow throughout the room. Every few minutes, the interior window would weep or rain.
Tech Credits: Geoffrey James, Photo Credit: Paul Litherland
Hopital Bellechasse, Montreal, Quebec, 2001
Collection:
Date Made: 2001
Materials: water pump, copper tubing and trough, amber gel, fluorescent lights, timer
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Sonar
Work ID: 54478
Description: Sonar is a site-specific performative intervention using sound, light, and water in conjuction with the architectural qualities of an out-of-use swimming pool, Bain St-Michel.
A giant (55 x 5 ft.) cloud of mist dominates the space. The mist is generated from high pressure nozzles used in green house irrigation systems. Participants are invited to walk in and around the fine spray of water using umbrellas and raincoats that are placed there for their use. The entire exhibition space is diffused in an aqua glow. As participants walk through the space, they trigger infrared sensors that activate high frequency modulated sounds that reverberate throughout the pool and circulate around the mist.
S.U.R.G.E collective - Ingrid Bachmann, Lorraine Oades, and Ana Rewacowiz.
Tech Credits: Yves Gigon - Mak Programmer, Hazel Meyer, Marcia Bakker - technical assistance
Collection:
Date Made: 2001
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Sonar
Work ID: 54480
Description: Sonar is a site-specific performative intervention using sound, light, and water in conjuction with the architectural qualities of an out-of-use swimming pool, Bain St-Michel.
A giant (55 x 5 ft.) cloud of mist dominates the space. The mist is generated from high pressure nozzles used in green house irrigation systems. Participants are invited to walk in and around the fine spray of water using umbrellas and raincoats that are placed there for their use. The entire exhibition space is diffused in an aqua glow. As participants walk through the space, they trigger infrared sensors that activate high frequency modulated sounds that reverberate throughout the pool and circulate around the mist.
S.U.R.G.E collective - Ingrid Bachmann, Lorraine Oades, and Ana Rewacowiz.
Tech Credits: Yves Gigon - Mak Programmer, Hazel Meyer, Marcia Bakker - technical assistance
Collection:
Date Made: 2001
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Knit One, Swim 2
Work ID: 54488
Description: Knit One, Swim 2 is an interactive installation in which two fourteen foot long aluminum knitting needles are suspended from the ceiling and connected through a system of weights and pulleys, guide wires, and potentiometers to a computer animation program. The movement of the needles by participants is tracked by mechanical devices (potentiometers) which relay this information to the computer via a micro-controller interface board which translates the mechanical motion into a digital signal. Counterweights - four large plexiglass cylinders filled with blue dye - that balance the knitting needles move in tandem with the participant's movements.
Tech Credits: Steve Boyer - Lingo Programming, Chris Flower - technical assistance; Photo Credit: Denis Farley
Measurements: aluminum knitting needles: 0.0696 x 0.4872 m long
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Digital Crustaceans V.02: Homesteading On The Web
Work ID: 54476
Description: This project involves live hermit crabs and their avatars that explore the World Wide Web. The hermit crabs have two homes - a large glass terrarium and a 'home' page on the Web. The movements of the real crabs within the terrarium are tracked by a motion capture system and animate a mechanical plotter that traces its movements onto a surface. These mappings serve as formal drawings as well as a record to track the movements of the avatars, as they map their itinerary and journey across the structures and sites of the World Wide Web.
Hermit crabs are families of crustaceans that make their homes and shelters in the unused or abandoned gastropod shells of snails and mollusks. Unlike other crustaceans, to whom they are related, hermit crabs do not carry their houses with them. They live in the discarded shells of other crustaceans, when they outgrow a shell they abandon it and find another. In this unique quality of being by nature 'unhomed', they provide an apt metaphor for the 20th and 21st century phenomenon of the migrant, the immigrant, the refugee, and the exile. www.digitalhermit.ca Tech Credits: ARTENGINE, Chris Flower
Measurements: terrarium: 45.72 x 152.4 x 45.72 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials: hermit crab, custom software, plotter, 2 x wall drawings, terrarium, 25 gouache drawings
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Knit One, Swim 2
Work ID: 54490
Description: Knit One, Swim 2 is an interactive installation in which two fourteen foot long aluminum knitting needles are suspended from the ceiling and connected through a system of weights and pulleys, guide wires, and potentiometers to a computer animation program. The movement of the needles by participants is tracked by mechanical devices (potentiometers) which relay this information to the computer via a micro-controller interface board which translates the mechanical motion into a digital signal. Counterweights - four large plexiglass cylinders filled with blue dye - that balance the knitting needles move in tandem with the participant's movements.
Tech Credits: Steve Boyer - Lingo Programming, Chris Flower - technical assistance; Photo Credit: Denis Farley
Measurements: aluminum knitting needles: 0.0696 x 0.4872 m long
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
The Portable Sublime
Work ID: 54469
Description: This very material and somewhat practical exhibition explores the possibilities of containing the sublime in a more manageable form. The sublime often invokes the grand, the ethereal and generally involves leaving the cares of the material world behind. Certainly, you rarely think of laundry and the sublime at the same time. Using prosaic materials, I want to create mobile spaces of provisional wonder.
Various events occur when the suitcases are opened. Each suitcase is its own small-scale installation with its own narrative. But the experience of each should add to the others, a little like clues in a mystery game or story.
Photo credit: Paul Litherland
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Knit One, Swim 2
Work ID: 54486
Description: Knit One, Swim 2 is an interactive installation in which two fourteen foot long aluminum knitting needles are suspended from the ceiling and connected through a system of weights and pulleys, guide wires, and potentiometers to a computer animation program. The movement of the needles by participants is tracked by mechanical devices (potentiometers) which relay this information to the computer via a micro-controller interface board which translates the mechanical motion into a digital signal. Counterweights - four large plexiglass cylinders filled with blue dye - that balance the knitting needles move in tandem with the participant's movements.
Tech Credits: Steve Boyer - Lingo Programming, Chris Flower - technical assistance; Photo Credit: Denis Farley
Measurements: aluminum knitting needles: 0.0696 x 0.4872 m long
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
The Portable Sublime
Work ID: 54467
Description: This very material and somewhat practical exhibition explores the possibilities of containing the sublime in a more manageable form. The sublime often invokes the grand, the ethereal and generally involves leaving the cares of the material world behind. Certainly, you rarely think of laundry and the sublime at the same time. Using prosaic materials, I want to create mobile spaces of provisional wonder.
Various events occur when the suitcases are opened. Each suitcase is its own small-scale installation with its own narrative. But the experience of each should add to the others, a little like clues in a mystery game or story.
Photo credit: Paul Litherland
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Knit One, Swim 2
Work ID: 54489
Description: Knit One, Swim 2 is an interactive installation in which two fourteen foot long aluminum knitting needles are suspended from the ceiling and connected through a system of weights and pulleys, guide wires, and potentiometers to a computer animation program. The movement of the needles by participants is tracked by mechanical devices (potentiometers) which relay this information to the computer via a micro-controller interface board which translates the mechanical motion into a digital signal. Counterweights - four large plexiglass cylinders filled with blue dye - that balance the knitting needles move in tandem with the participant's movements.
Tech Credits: Steve Boyer - Lingo Programming, Chris Flower - technical assistance; Photo Credit: Denis Farley
Measurements: aluminum knitting needles: 0.0696 x 0.4872 m long
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Digital Crustaceans V.02: Homesteading On The Web
Work ID: 54477
Description: This project involves live hermit crabs and their avatars that explore the World Wide Web. The hermit crabs have two homes - a large glass terrarium and a 'home' page on the Web. The movements of the real crabs within the terrarium are tracked by a motion capture system and animate a mechanical plotter that traces its movements onto a surface. These mappings serve as formal drawings as well as a record to track the movements of the avatars, as they map their itinerary and journey across the structures and sites of the World Wide Web.
Hermit crabs are families of crustaceans that make their homes and shelters in the unused or abandoned gastropod shells of snails and mollusks. Unlike other crustaceans, to whom they are related, hermit crabs do not carry their houses with them. They live in the discarded shells of other crustaceans, when they outgrow a shell they abandon it and find another. In this unique quality of being by nature 'unhomed', they provide an apt metaphor for the 20th and 21st century phenomenon of the migrant, the immigrant, the refugee, and the exile. www.digitalhermit.ca Tech Credits: ARTENGINE, Chris Flower
Measurements: terrarium: 45.72 x 152.4 x 45.72 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials: hermit crab, custom software, plotter, 2 x wall drawings, terrarium, 25 gouache drawings
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
The Portable Sublime
Work ID: 54470
Description: This very material and somewhat practical exhibition explores the possibilities of containing the sublime in a more manageable form. The sublime often invokes the grand, the ethereal and generally involves leaving the cares of the material world behind. Certainly, you rarely think of laundry and the sublime at the same time. Using prosaic materials, I want to create mobile spaces of provisional wonder.
Various events occur when the suitcases are opened. Each suitcase is its own small-scale installation with its own narrative. But the experience of each should add to the others, a little like clues in a mystery game or story.
Photo credit: Paul Litherland
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
The Portable Sublime
Work ID: 54471
Description: This very material and somewhat practical exhibition explores the possibilities of containing the sublime in a more manageable form. The sublime often invokes the grand, the ethereal and generally involves leaving the cares of the material world behind. Certainly, you rarely think of laundry and the sublime at the same time. Using prosaic materials, I want to create mobile spaces of provisional wonder.
Various events occur when the suitcases are opened. Each suitcase is its own small-scale installation with its own narrative. But the experience of each should add to the others, a little like clues in a mystery game or story.
Photo credit: Paul Litherland
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Digital Crustaceans V.02: Homesteading On The Web
Work ID: 54475
Description: This project involves live hermit crabs and their avatars that explore the World Wide Web. The hermit crabs have two homes - a large glass terrarium and a 'home' page on the Web. The movements of the real crabs within the terrarium are tracked by a motion capture system and animate a mechanical plotter that traces its movements onto a surface. These mappings serve as formal drawings as well as a record to track the movements of the avatars, as they map their itinerary and journey across the structures and sites of the World Wide Web.
Hermit crabs are families of crustaceans that make their homes and shelters in the unused or abandoned gastropod shells of snails and mollusks. Unlike other crustaceans, to whom they are related, hermit crabs do not carry their houses with them. They live in the discarded shells of other crustaceans, when they outgrow a shell they abandon it and find another. In this unique quality of being by nature 'unhomed', they provide an apt metaphor for the 20th and 21st century phenomenon of the migrant, the immigrant, the refugee, and the exile. www.digitalhermit.ca Tech Credits: ARTENGINE, Chris Flower
Measurements: terrarium: 45.72 x 152.4 x 45.72 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials: hermit crab, custom software, plotter, 2 x wall drawings, terrarium, 25 gouache drawings
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Digital Crustaceans V.02: Homesteading On The Web
Work ID: 54474
Description: This project involves live hermit crabs and their avatars that explore the World Wide Web. The hermit crabs have two homes - a large glass terrarium and a 'home' page on the Web. The movements of the real crabs within the terrarium are tracked by a motion capture system and animate a mechanical plotter that traces its movements onto a surface. These mappings serve as formal drawings as well as a record to track the movements of the avatars, as they map their itinerary and journey across the structures and sites of the World Wide Web.
Hermit crabs are families of crustaceans that make their homes and shelters in the unused or abandoned gastropod shells of snails and mollusks. Unlike other crustaceans, to whom they are related, hermit crabs do not carry their houses with them. They live in the discarded shells of other crustaceans, when they outgrow a shell they abandon it and find another. In this unique quality of being by nature 'unhomed', they provide an apt metaphor for the 20th and 21st century phenomenon of the migrant, the immigrant, the refugee, and the exile. www.digitalhermit.ca Tech Credits: ARTENGINE, Chris Flower
Measurements: terrarium: 45.72 x 152.4 x 45.72 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials: hermit crab, custom software, plotter, 2 x wall drawings, terrarium, 25 gouache drawings
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Knit One, Swim 2
Work ID: 54487
Description: Knit One, Swim 2 is an interactive installation in which two fourteen foot long aluminum knitting needles are suspended from the ceiling and connected through a system of weights and pulleys, guide wires, and potentiometers to a computer animation program. The movement of the needles by participants is tracked by mechanical devices (potentiometers) which relay this information to the computer via a micro-controller interface board which translates the mechanical motion into a digital signal. Counterweights - four large plexiglass cylinders filled with blue dye - that balance the knitting needles move in tandem with the participant's movements.
Tech Credits: Steve Boyer - Lingo Programming, Chris Flower - technical assistance; Photo Credit: Denis Farley
Measurements: aluminum knitting needles: 0.0696 x 0.4872 m long
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
The Portable Sublime
Work ID: 54468
Description: This very material and somewhat practical exhibition explores the possibilities of containing the sublime in a more manageable form. The sublime often invokes the grand, the ethereal and generally involves leaving the cares of the material world behind. Certainly, you rarely think of laundry and the sublime at the same time. Using prosaic materials, I want to create mobile spaces of provisional wonder.
Various events occur when the suitcases are opened. Each suitcase is its own small-scale installation with its own narrative. But the experience of each should add to the others, a little like clues in a mystery game or story.
Photo credit: Paul Litherland
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Digital Crustaceans V.02: Homesteading On The Web
Work ID: 54472
Description: This project involves live hermit crabs and their avatars that explore the World Wide Web. The hermit crabs have two homes - a large glass terrarium and a 'home' page on the Web. The movements of the real crabs within the terrarium are tracked by a motion capture system and animate a mechanical plotter that traces its movements onto a surface. These mappings serve as formal drawings as well as a record to track the movements of the avatars, as they map their itinerary and journey across the structures and sites of the World Wide Web.
Hermit crabs are families of crustaceans that make their homes and shelters in the unused or abandoned gastropod shells of snails and mollusks. Unlike other crustaceans, to whom they are related, hermit crabs do not carry their houses with them. They live in the discarded shells of other crustaceans, when they outgrow a shell they abandon it and find another. In this unique quality of being by nature 'unhomed', they provide an apt metaphor for the 20th and 21st century phenomenon of the migrant, the immigrant, the refugee, and the exile. www.digitalhermit.ca Tech Credits: ARTENGINE, Chris Flower
Measurements: terrarium: 45.72 x 152.4 x 45.72 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials: hermit crab, custom software, plotter, 2 x wall drawings, terrarium, 25 gouache drawings
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Digital Crustaceans V.02: Homesteading On The Web
Work ID: 54473
Description: This project involves live hermit crabs and their avatars that explore the World Wide Web. The hermit crabs have two homes - a large glass terrarium and a 'home' page on the Web. The movements of the real crabs within the terrarium are tracked by a motion capture system and animate a mechanical plotter that traces its movements onto a surface. These mappings serve as formal drawings as well as a record to track the movements of the avatars, as they map their itinerary and journey across the structures and sites of the World Wide Web.
Hermit crabs are families of crustaceans that make their homes and shelters in the unused or abandoned gastropod shells of snails and mollusks. Unlike other crustaceans, to whom they are related, hermit crabs do not carry their houses with them. They live in the discarded shells of other crustaceans, when they outgrow a shell they abandon it and find another. In this unique quality of being by nature 'unhomed', they provide an apt metaphor for the 20th and 21st century phenomenon of the migrant, the immigrant, the refugee, and the exile. www.digitalhermit.ca Tech Credits: ARTENGINE, Chris Flower
Measurements: terrarium: 45.72 x 152.4 x 45.72 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials: hermit crab, custom software, plotter, 2 x wall drawings, terrarium, 25 gouache drawings
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Distant Echoes, detail of banner
Work ID: 69441
Description: Photo Credit: Paul Litherland.
Image Credit: David Leeson, Dallas Morning News
Measurements: each banner: 82.55 x 166.37 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2006
Materials: digital print on fabric
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Distant Echoes, detail of banner
Work ID: 69440
Description: Photo Credit: Paul Litherland.
Image Credit: David Leeson, Dallas Morning News
Measurements: each banner: 82.55 x 166.37 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2006
Materials: digital print on fabric
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Distant Echoes, detail of banner
Work ID: 69439
Description: Photo Credit: Paul Litherland.
Image Credit: David Leeson, Dallas Morning News
Measurements: each banner: 82.55 x 166.37 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2006
Materials: digital print on fabric
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Distant Echoes, installation view
Work ID: 69438
Description: Photo Credit: Paul Litherland.
Image Credit: David Leeson, Dallas Morning News
Measurements: each banner: 82.55 x 166.37 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2006
Materials: digital print on fabric
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Symphony for 54 Shoes (Distant Echoes), installation view
Work ID: 69443
Description: Photo Credit: Wojtek Gwiazda
Collection:
Date Made: 2006-2008
Materials: assorted second shoes, 108 solenoids, metal, wood, 4 circuit boards, electronics
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Symphony for 54 Shoes (Distant Echoes), detail
Work ID: 69445
Description: Photo Credit: Wojtek Gwiazda
Collection:
Date Made: 2006-2008
Materials: assorted second shoes, 108 solenoids, metal, wood, 4 circuit boards, electronics
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Symphony for 54 Shoes (Distant Echoes), detail
Work ID: 69444
Description: Photo Credit: Wojtek Gwiazda
Collection:
Date Made: 2006-2008
Materials: assorted second shoes, 108 solenoids, metal, wood, 4 circuit boards, electronics
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Symphony for 54 Shoes (Distant Echoes), preparatory sketch
Work ID: 69446
Description: Photo Credit: Wojtek Gwiazda
Collection:
Date Made: 2006-2008
Materials: assorted second shoes, 108 solenoids, metal, wood, 4 circuit boards, electronics
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Symphony for 54 Shoes (Distant Echoes), preparatory sketch
Work ID: 69447
Description: Photo Credit: Wojtek Gwiazda
Collection:
Date Made: 2006-2008
Materials: assorted second shoes, 108 solenoids, metal, wood, 4 circuit boards, electronics
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Symphony for 54 Shoes (Distant Echoes), installation view
Work ID: 69442
Description: Photo Credit: Wojtek Gwiazda
Collection:
Date Made: 2006-2008
Materials: assorted second shoes, 108 solenoids, metal, wood, 4 circuit boards, electronics
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Pinocchio’s Dilemma, detail of nose
Work ID: 69452
Description: Photo Credit: John Jones
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials: cast resin, 8 servo motours, 2 arduino microcontrollers, metal, plexiglass, plastic
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Memo, detail
Work ID: 69458
Description: Installation and performance. Studio DVO, Brussels, Belgium.
Photo Credit: Wojtek Gwiazda
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials: post it notes, drawings, yacht cable, pulleys, hardware, hand crank, post-it note suit
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Memo, detail
Work ID: 69455
Description: Installation and performance. Studio DVO, Brussels, Belgium.
Photo Credit: Wojtek Gwiazda
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials: post it notes, drawings, yacht cable, pulleys, hardware, hand crank, post-it note suit
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Memo, detail
Work ID: 69457
Description: Installation and performance. Studio DVO, Brussels, Belgium.
Photo Credit: Wojtek Gwiazda
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials: post it notes, drawings, yacht cable, pulleys, hardware, hand crank, post-it note suit
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Memo, detail
Work ID: 69460
Description: Installation and performance. Studio DVO, Brussels, Belgium.
Photo Credit: Wojtek Gwiazda
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials: post it notes, drawings, yacht cable, pulleys, hardware, hand crank, post-it note suit
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Pinocchio’s Dilemma, detail of nose mechanism
Work ID: 69453
Description: Photo Credit: John Jones
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials: cast resin, 8 servo motours, 2 arduino microcontrollers, metal, plexiglass, plastic
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Pinocchio’s Dilemma, installation view
Work ID: 69448
Description: Photo Credit: John Jones
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials: cast resin, 8 servo motours, 2 arduino microcontrollers, metal, plexiglass, plastic
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Memo, detail
Work ID: 69459
Description: Installation and performance. Studio DVO, Brussels, Belgium.
Photo Credit: Wojtek Gwiazda
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials: post it notes, drawings, yacht cable, pulleys, hardware, hand crank, post-it note suit
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Pinocchio’s Dilemma, detail of tongues
Work ID: 69449
Description: Photo Credit: John Jones
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials: cast resin, 8 servo motours, 2 arduino microcontrollers, metal, plexiglass, plastic
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Pinocchio’s Dilemma, detail of tongues
Work ID: 69450
Description: Photo Credit: John Jones
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials: cast resin, 8 servo motours, 2 arduino microcontrollers, metal, plexiglass, plastic
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Memo, installation view
Work ID: 69454
Description: Installation and performance. Studio DVO, Brussels, Belgium.
Photo Credit: Wojtek Gwiazda
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials: post it notes, drawings, yacht cable, pulleys, hardware, hand crank, post-it note suit
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Pinocchio’s Dilemma, detail of nose
Work ID: 69451
Description: Photo Credit: John Jones
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials: cast resin, 8 servo motours, 2 arduino microcontrollers, metal, plexiglass, plastic
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Memo, detail
Work ID: 69456
Description: Installation and performance. Studio DVO, Brussels, Belgium.
Photo Credit: Wojtek Gwiazda
Collection:
Date Made: 2007
Materials: post it notes, drawings, yacht cable, pulleys, hardware, hand crank, post-it note suit
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
