Friday at the IGCA gallery

The video below shows the exhibit in the International Gallery of Contemporary Art (IGCA).  There were four artists.  Here are the artists' statements from the gallery's blurb:

Oscar Font:

Oscar, aka "VJ offonoll," is an audiovisual artist from Barcelona, Spain, His interactive installations map audiovisual intervention with video projections, using sculpture as a canvas of expression.  He is dedicated to exploring visual communication through nonlinear processes.

Burtner group:

• Jesse Burtner: 

Jesse is founder and owner of Think Thank, a filmmaking company based in Seattle.  As a filmmaker and professional snowboarder makes frequent trips home to Alaska.

• Garrett Burtner

Garrett is an Alaska architect and artist working in Anchorage.  He is interested in the interplay of sound and pattern and how these affect the perception of space.

• Matthew Burtner

Matthew is an award-winning composer, sound artist and professor at University of Virginia.  His work regularly combines instrumental ensembles , computer technology, interactive eco-acoustics and multimedia.

• "Akropoli"  (title of the work)

At the house where the Burtner brother grew up, if you face a certain direction you will see only mountains.  Then if you turn 180 degrees you will only see the city of Anchorage below you.  At night one side is a dark abyss and the other is the electric town. On a sunny day in the fall one is fresh white sheet the other a gray brown sprawl.  Walk an hour from our door and you could be helplessly lost in wilderness.  An hour 180 degrees in the other direction and you are in urban America.  AKROPOLI (mountain city) is a work about binary qualities of place.  Jesse's video explores the 180 degree aspect described above using split screens and modulated time.  Garrett's visual installation dissects the physical room into a theoretical space of planes and quadrants stretching far beyond the walls and enfolding the exterior spaces (mountain? city? abstract theoretical realms?).  Matthew's interactive music has two parts: a headphone controller part, and a room-speaker/stones part.  In the headphones one viewer listens to the wind and controls a 3-D sound navigator which introduces pulses of noise  In the room, viewers will hear gentle layers of noise as they strike rocks together to make social clusters of rhythm.  As the noise parts urge us towards abstraction, the wind and the room stones relocate us back in the mountain.

Jacob Mattie

Jacob is a DJ whose history of playing music is deeply rooted in the last 11 years of his life in Alaska.  Jump started by working for local record shop, his musical inspirations continue to be driven by artists and producers from around the planet.

"Destiny's Dream Collage" (also uses headphones)  - Mattie has created an interactive interface built of digital and analog devices.  The viewer/listener place a turntable tonearm on a record to experience the composed audio/visual ensemble.

Toridamari group

• Lucy Toridamari 

Lucy Toridamariis a foreign soul, who glady exchanged Russia for USA as her homeland.  She's in constant search of visual and verbal extravaganza, random beauty and inspiring people.

• Ryohei Toridamari 

Ryohei Toridamari is an international student from Japan and also a dj, who has collaborated with several art galleries by providing music.

• Work untitled (also required headphones)

 

-- Marge