Gasoline Puddles

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The gasoline puddle creates rainbows because the oil and water interface reflects. The thickness of the oil layer is less than the wave lengths of the different colours of light and reflects the different frequencies at different phases causing interference cancelling and also different angles of refraction.

In this project, a silhouetted dancer performs an interpretative dance of eloquent movements, grand swooshes and cutting arm gestures. Live video captures and mirrors the viewer, embeds them below the interpretative dancer, just as in the gasoline puddle, the water floats the gasoline atop of it. Her energetic dance is slowed to a meditative study of gracefulness. Further video manipulations shift and fragment her silhouette, as the light is refracted between the gasoline and the water, stretching out time before the viewer, inviting reflection by the viewer as they see mirrored glimpses of themselves beneath the distortions.

This project allows the viewers to become the subjects as well as co-creators, providing another path for viewers to re-contextualize environment and re-imagine themselves, like the rainbow transforms the gasoline puddle into something momentarily wonderful.

Participate in this transformation at:

SSSHHHH!! Quiet Music at the Alameda Library
May 5, 8PM-10PM 
1550 Oak Street
Alameda, CA

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LOVE Modesto: Dream Garden

Love Modesto started with two questions back in 2007 – Why is our city on some of the “worst cities in America” lists? What if our churches were to suddenly disappear from the Modesto area, would anyone even care or notice? With a lot of dreaming and planning came March 7, 2009. Over 1,200 people showed up to love our city in practical ways. We’ve done this six more times since adding Love Ceres, Love Escalon and Love Riverbank in 2011. Over 11,000 people have been a part…  young, old, abled, disabled, people from a church or no church at all. Over 38,500 volunteer hours have been donated – at minimum wage, this is over $308,000! At these community wide service days, volunteers engage in a variety of projects such as offering food to the hungry, visiting convalescent homes, donating blood, building a house with Habitat for Humanity and working with the city parks, among other opportunities.

The Dream Garden project allows the public to create fabric flowers from used clothing, and then write their personal dream in the flower’s center, transforming a craft piece into a collective statement about the dreams of residents in the community. The April 28, 2012 event has over 70 volunteers contributing to the project. Strolling through the completed garden gives viewers personal insight into the goals and desires of their own neighbors. The final project is created through the direct participation of Modesto residents, and most importantly, the art gives residents the opportunity to see how they could transform their community. The Dream Garden will be on display at various locations around our community.

 

Instructions to create your own Dream Garden Flower

Guest Speaker for Pen Women

Guest Speaker for Pen Women

10 am, March 28. Saletta Studios, Oakdale, CA.

Come and join us at the March meeting of the Modesto Pen Women where JGomula will be presenting her talk Art, ARGs, and Social Activism. Digital games are widely used and played to address pressing social issues, producing sustainable and positive impacts within our society. In the //Building Imagination Initiative’s Alternate Reality Game, each participant chooses a Mission to participate in. Missions revolve around creating imaginative art based solutions to Modesto’s livability issues: Education, Employment, Crime, Health Care, Housing, Transportation, Leisure, Arts & Culture, Quality of Life.

 

 

Architecture Graffiti event.

Saturday, September 17th, 2011, 7-9 pm. 
Chartreuse Muse Gallery.
Downtown Modesto, CA.

Architecture Graffiti is sponsored by the  //Bii,  the Modesto Art Museum, and the Modesto International Architecture Festival to create this public outreach opportunity, a VIP (Valley Illumination & Performance) event. Working with unlikely natural and built spaces, VIP events are a public art project that creates site-specific illumination of public space, catalyzing site-specific work, integrating audience interaction and live video, and showcasing diverse collaborations between performative projectionists and musicians. VIP events are a powerful, yet non-displacing, way to creatively claim and transform public spaces with inventive, provocative, and immersive events of light and sound.

Participating artists include work by Sean Clute; work by Spirit of Space; Submerged by Jessica Gomula; Wealth by Julie Strong, Brittney Miller, Alyssa Martinez

Public support of this project was excellent, with over 100 people attending.

Meet Your Neighbor reception.

Thursday, August 18th, 7 pm.

Artist Reception at Crow Trading, 1208 J st. Modesto.
Installation of the 125 “larger than life” black and white portraits from //Bii: Meet Your Neighbor.
Various locations throughout downtown Modesto, including over 35 storefronts.
With support from the Modesto Art Museum.
Exhibition runs from August 4th – September 18th, 2011.

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DOUBLE VISION Recession Special Tour.

  • July 5 – 9, 2011: Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture, Kefalonia Greece.
  • July 12, 2011: POP Revolution Festival, Lecce, Italy.
  • July 17, 19, 20, 25, 2011: ProARTS Festival 2011 & International Choreographic Platform, Brno and Prague, Czech Republic.
  • July 23 – 31, 2011: Moving House Foundation / Florian Workshop in Budapest, Hungary.
  • August 1 – 7, 2011: OZU, Monteleone Sabino, outside Rome, Italy.

Installation of //Bii: Submerged as part of Veritable Vicissitudes: As the audience enters, they find themselves in a maze of scrim through which they may travel. Live sound and video projections echo through the maze while creating overlays of light and moving shadows on the hanging scrim walls. Sharing the maze are several dancers with headlamps. The goal of each performance installation listed below is to create a sensorial playground for artists and audience alike. In these environments, the audience can experience and often interact with dance, music, video and other art genres in an intimate, 360-degree manner. Through interactive systems, the audience and artists can co-create the performance.


Illuminated Corridor.

Friday, May 13, 2011.
An evening of live music and video performances with the Illuminated Corridor.
Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley. Berkeley, CA.
Installation of //Bii: Water with live video component.

 

V.I.P. Event.

V.I.P. Event.

Friday, May 6, 2011.
Outside of University Art Gallery. California State University Stanislaus. Turlock, CA.
Premiere screening of //Bii: Contentment.

Working with unlikely natural and built spaces, Video In Place (V.I.P.) events are a public art project that creates site-specific illumination of public space, showcasing diverse videography aesthetics. V.I.P. events are a powerful, yet non-displacing, way to creatively claim and transform public spaces with inventive, provocative, and immersive events of light and sound.

President’s Gallery

Coming Soon! A new Science Museum.

A traditional installation at the President’s Gallery

Coming Soon! A new Science Museum.May – July, 2011.
President’s Gallery.
California State University Stanislaus. Turlock, CA.

A traditional gallery installation of the printed works from the //Building Imagination Initiative, including a special installation of the satirized comics strips form the //Bii: Play Alternate Reality Game, images from the Coming Soon! project, and video stills from several performances.

Art, ARGs, and Social Activism

Art, ARGs, and Social Activism

zero1-playWednesday, April 6, 2011.
Artist Lecture. B205.  California State University Stanislaus. Turlock, CA.
Art, ARGs, and Social Activism: Digital games are widely used and played to address pressing social issues, producing sustainable and positive impacts within our society. In the //Building Imagination Initiative’s Alternate Reality Game, each participant chooses a Mission to participate in. Missions revolve around creating imaginative art based solutions to Modesto’s livability issues: Education, Employment, Crime, Health Care, Housing, Transportation, Leisure, Arts & Culture, Quality of Life.