sphere from omEGG, ITIN ’04
All this Borges talk reminds me of a sketch I drew for the ideal viewer for a piece that was then called New York Idyll and is now called omEGG (a love story). The idea was that both characters wold have a time line that overlapped in one arena, or picture plane that was controlled by a third character – the viewer, god, the eggman, M. Tristan, etc. The two really important characters would be the lovers (hey I’m a romantic with a roman nose who wants to make what the French call a Roman….so arena is the right word).
The arena hexagon would be a sort of layer or double exposure zone. The information held in one time line stream would react with the information in the other characters time line stream (sort of how babies end up as combos of mom and dad) – the images in the arena would be always changing and more than the sum of their parts. Also one characters change in arc would affect the way the other charcter looked in the arena even if his/her timline remained stationary.
This whole idea goes back to manic night of drawing and drinking at a friends bartending gig on the lower east side. I drew up a storm and bought an Argus camera for ten bucks and a drawing from a second hand store. It was army green bakelite bodied camera with the odd quirk that if you didn’t advance the film you could just keep snapping the shutter. Instead of taking a series of photos, you could just make one very complicated one… which is what I started doing for a few months and spending ruinous amounts of money doing it. Here is a pictue of Richard Sera I took using this camera and my method. He looked at me strangely as I snapped away around him without advancing the film: “Cubism,” I told him.
Richard Serra Installing Torqued Elipses, ITIN ’97
There is a lot you can do layering visual information. It would be nice to work at Eyebeam (where I applied for a residency) because there isn’t really a chance in hell of me figuring out the technical question on making such an interface for omEGG. Right now it’s a pretty nifty TK3 book. Samples are available from the top banner.
Basel Munster (which like my local BK church can also be rented out as a Synagogue…I guess). I’d never seen this in a Gothic Cathedral, or even on this cathedral where I was Baptised untill Fasnacht 2002 and I was delighted to discover that the Baslers at least weren’t afraid of the HEX.