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The "Desert Die" sculptural way-finding device is almost for the ready! This beautiful sculpture is a combination of a book and way-finding device. It has an audio component, with text written by Jared Stanley. The device was designed and fabricated by Matthew Hebert.  I designed the illustrative panels. Go cnc/craft!


You can find it as of March 6 at the Wonder Valley location of Mapping the Desert/Deserting the Map


The Desert Die is an interactive sculptural way-finding device that interrogates how language mediates landscape. The Desert Die subverts the notion of stationary wayside interpretive literature, and instead uses the visual and verbal vocabulary of interpretive literature against its original intention to orient the spectator within the landscape. In typical wayside literature, the marker formalizes the viewer's experience into a one-point perspective; in The Desert Die we add an additional five perspectives on any given point; in this way, we investigate how an object can limit and manipulate experience in the landscape. The piece is a six-sided die, approximately 1' square in size, and rests on a pedestal. The die is constructed of steel, with milled aluminum placards bolted to each side. Each placard features an engraving of an imaginary element of a desert landscape. Each time the die is "rolled," a switch within the die will trigger an audio recording of a poetic/interpretive text describing an imaginary site, and not necessarily the site in which the Desert Die is located. The project is collaboration between Jared Stanley, Gabie Strong, and Matthew Hebert.  The Desert Die will be installed temporarily in the Wonder Valley area on March 6 as part of the greater Mapping the Desert event.


Here's a sneak of the panel drawings.

Labels: architecture, cultural geography, drawing, exhibition, news

Opening tonight! 5-8 pm, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Nichols Gallery

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I'm participating in the CAPITALISM IN QUESTION (because it is) exhibition at Pitzer Art Galleries this spring. The exhibition is curated by Daniel Joseph Martinez and Ciara Ennis, and is co-organized by the Center for Social Inquiry at Pitzer College. It opens January 28, 2010.

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Drone on my friends!


Las Cienegas Projects
2045 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, Ca 90034
Nov. 7 2009 @ 7pm

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I'm Gorgeous Inside

Organized by Morgan Wells!


Five Thirty Three
533 S. Los Angeles St. 90013
Opening reception - October 17, 7:00 pm

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Left to right, from the Oranges & Paper exhibition at University Art Gallery, UC Irvine, May 2008:

What Makes a Man Start Fires? (BCN-127, 1942, San Pedro, CA), 2008
Light Jet photograph, 48x 60"

Politics of Time (Minutemen, 1982,1984,1981, SST, San Pedro CA)
2008
3 Light Jet photographs, 30x 30" ea.

Datum
2008
Sixteen Light Jet photographs, 15 x 18" each.

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Sand and Sky Rituals


Join me in an afternoon of soundscaping with

Albert Ortega
Ron Russell
Steve Kim
and hopefully maybe
Helga Fassonaki & Andrew Scott


We will have photographs, prints, drawings, cds and tapes available for purchase or exchange

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NOVEMBER 15 - DECEMBER 13, 2008
Reception: Saturday, November 15, 7 to 10 p.m.
Awards Presentation: 8 p.m.

Torrance Art Museum
3320 Civic Center Drive Torrance, CA 90503
www.torranceartmuseum.com
310-618-6340

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Come on down for a fun filled evening of performance and good times!

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Members of SASSAS and invited guests will be peforming at the Eagle Rock Music Festival OCT. 4//9:00 - 10:30pm//Church of Christ//5080 Maywood.

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Artist and writer Diana Jou posted a nice feature about my work "Datum" (pictured) on her Pushback.org blog. Diana was the 2007 Humanity In Action American Fellow, author and editor for Jaded magazine, and a great photographer in her own right. Thanks, Diana!

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I have two record photographs in the Summer Guest Show at Acuna-Hansen Gallery in Chinatown. The show runs from June 28-July 26.


























My photograph of Whites Point in San Pedro is also featured in a photo exhibition at The Muckenthaler Cultural Center, which runs from July 13-Sept. 28.

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June 28 - July 10


WRR_catalog.pdf

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Tracy Nakayama and Jeremy Yoder, Untitled, 2006.
Ink and collage on paper, 10" x 8"

David Patton Los Angeles
July 7-August 4 2007

5006 1/2 York Blvd.
Highland Park
Los Angeles, California 90042

"In this group show curated by Gabie Strong, the artists selected will be using the gallery David Patton Los Angeles, located at 5006 1/2 York Blvd., as a starship for explorations of time and space. Some might consider the word "landscape" as a proper painterly term to describe some of the work presented in this show, as an analogy for the curious rub between past, present, and future; others will just say, far out!
Artists in the exhibition have invented myths of the near future, depicted the collapse of human time within the force of geologic time, and resurrected histories past. Come pause for speculation whilst viewing collage, painting, drawing, and sculpture! Listen to real-time sound performance, as temporal investigations of virtual lands through systems interference! Enter the worm hole to explore futures near and far!"

Download the curatorial essay or look at the checklist of images from the exhibition

Featuring work by

Andy Alexander
Kent Familton
Wendy Heldmann
Kathleen Johnson
Alice Koenitz
Tracy Nakayama
Gina Osterloh
Sean Sullivan
Kristine Thompson
Jeremy Yoder

07/07/07
The opening reception has a special sound performance with Sharon Cheslow and Steven Kim
&
August 4th with yek koo (Helga Fassonaki), and Tom Watson (Slovenly, Overpass, Red Krayola, New Energy) with artist Kent Familton

Images of the installation


Images from the performances

Steve Kim and Sharon Cheslow


Tom Watson and Kent Familton


Helga Fassonaki/Yek Koo

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STS:116, 2007
C-print mounted to acrylic, 20x24"




Bacon, eggs, sausage, a biscuit (breakfast with an astronaut), 2007
C-print mounted to acrylic, 20x24"




Fossil of the Future, 2007
C-print mounted to acrylic, 20x24"




Flesh & Geometry, 2007
C-print mounted to acrylic, 20x24"




Space Rituals, 2007
C-print mounted to acrylic, 20x24"


From the MFA2 exhibition at University Art Gallery, UC Irvine, 2007

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Video documentation of space, climate, light, mood, a one evening only performance at the Schindler House, in collaboration with visual artist Cindy Bernard as part of her solo exhibition entitlted, Location Proposal #2.

Live improvisational music by Gabie Strong, David Patton and Ron Russell, with live remixing by Joe Potts and Joseph Hammer.

February 16, 2000

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