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EXHIBITION OVERVIEW
Another Side of In is envisioned as an interactive, experiential, installation. It will consist of paintings on heat formed Lexan by Marjorie Minkin. Each painting will have a mounting system that accommodates a hidden speaker, sound source and proximity sensor. Sounds used by Mike Gordon on his Inside In CD have been extracted and "looped" into discrete sonic elements that visitors will trigger by their movements. At a variably adjustable distance from each painting, the sound loop associated with it will begin. The sound's volume will rise or fall as one gets closer or moves away from a piece within its active zone.
Eric Singer, the project's "electronicist," is designing the system with master volume and sensitivity controls. Of primary importance to the artists, visitors will become active participants able to "play" the installation as if it were an instrument. Or perhaps a closer analogy would be to say that visitors will be creating improvised "mixes" using musical motifs from Inside In. The exhibition is being designed to make it possible for visitors to clearly recognize how their actions affect the sounds they are hearing and thus engage them as co-creators of their own, individual, experience of the installation.
ARTISTS' STATEMENTS
"It's a collaboration-meant-to-be, since my artistry has always been inspired by my mother's. We have experimented in the past with bass lines written to accompany the rippley surface of translucent relief works. And she has done backdrops for my band. But my Inside In album is now lending the perfect setting for a more in-depth juxtaposition. So many of the installations that I've seen that claim to be "interactive," often with rave reviews, seem to be hardly that. They offer no clear correlation between art and observer. We would like, with this show, to provide a more stimulating example of viewer participation, while providing a forum for our sounds and visual art to mesh more symbiotically then ever."
Mike E. Gordon, November, 2004
"Mike and I have long planned a collaboration of sounds and visual works which would involve viewers in innovative ways." The idea that the audience would participate in the creation was crucial. Often art is conceived and executed as a final expression. Presenting the artistic experience in a manner which would allow others to contribute to the creation itself was seen by us as a way of adding unexpected possibilities. Mike, who has always experimented with media related technology, envisioned developing an interactive visual/sound experience utilizing proximity detectors. When Mike's album "Inside In" was released, we decided this was the time to pursue our project. Working in the studio in response to sounds extracted from the album has been extremely exciting and challenging for me. While listening to the "colors" and "textures" of the sounds Mike has created, I have made a group of heat molded painted Lexan works as my personal response to the rhythms and tones of the music. Now we offer this experimental endeavor to the viewer whose participation is needed for its fulfillment."
Marjorie Minkin, August 30, 2005
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About Marjorie Minkin