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Floating Plaster / City Motion, 2006. Hydrocal Plaster, DLP Projectors, Synchronizer, Speakers, DVD Players, DVD. 9(h) x 40(w) x 30(d) ft. Collaboration with Robert Campbell, 911 Media Arts Center, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA. - Floating Plaster/City Motion is a multi-media installation comprised of video and cast sculpture incorporating multiple video projectors and programmable matrix switchers. The work integrates sculptural formal aesthetics with architectonic video projections of animated imagery toward the creation of an evocative and dynamic installation. Activating a physical Z-axis with projections, image becomes sculpture, and sculpture image through the dynamic interplay between image, motion, sound and form.
The installation was developed in the New Works Laboratory residency program, a joint project between 911 Media Art Center and Henry Art Gallery. The work was exhibited at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington in 2006 and at Peeler Art Center at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana in 2007.
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Floting Plaster / City Motion
By Jen Graves - The Stranger Art Critic
"The installation, called Floating Plaster/City Motion, sits on the floor in a dark room at 911 Media Arts Center. It is two silent white islands, which also resemble glowing ships of empire, of cast-plaster shapes with urban-style canyons between. The islands are based on the footprints of the Ile Saint-Louis and the Ile de la Cit� in Paris, but they have become anonymous. Three synchronized projectors create one moving image across the surfaces of the buildings and streets and alleys. Bits of snow drop on the two cities, streaks of traffic careen down their avenues, and the cities are caressed by sun, sketched by architects, and destroyed by bombs. The animated realm that results from the changing combination of surface and form is abstract and suggestive, like a map, a telescoped view, a war zone broadcast from a safe distance."
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By Elizabeth Brown - Chief Curator, Henry Art Gallery
Floating Plaster/City Motion is a new multi-media installation by Robert Campbell and Yuki Nakamura, who worked together for the first time in the New Works Laboratory residency program. Nakamura, who earned a BFA in Tokyo and an MFA from the University of Washington, is known primarily for pristine sculptural objects and installations, often made in porcelain. Campbell, who earned a BFA and an MFA from CalArts, teaches video, film, and digital imaging at Cornish College of the Arts. Having fixed on a basic formal approach, they developed a series of elements that were striking on their own but would respond to projected light. The moving sequence, which runs approximately nine minutes, evokes the drama of a city: shifting lights, moving traffic, incidents of weather, and other elements in flux that capture the pulse of a place. Nakamura�s expertise with sculpture freed Campbell to enjoy object-making, while Campbell enabled Nakamura�s first experiences with projected animation. The two artists contributed equally to the refinement and resolution of each part, working together to make a new whole.
Floating Plaster / City Motion
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