Finnbogi Petursson

Wind-drawing 1995

The ventilators are started one after the other forming pillars of wind rising up vertically from the floor, pillars that the viewer cannot see but rather feels upon approaching
the work.

The volcano gate 1999 – The volcano gate panorama from Centre Regional D´Art, Sete, France, Ragna Róbertsdóttir and Finnbogi Pétursson 1999 The premise of the work is the belief in the Middle Ages that the gate to hell was through the crater of the Hekla volcano in Iceland. I perceive emissive noise-sound from the FM receiver to be the basic sound of the work. It is sent through a programmer which divides it into two rotating channels and forms two parallel circles around 16 loudspeakers warping the sound to Ragna Róbertsdóttir’s pumice-work.

Pendulums – 1993 – VIDEO

Pendulums, produced early in the summer of 1993 for the “Borealis 6” exhibition at the National Gallery of Iceland, is a logical continuation of Circle from 1991. Three large loudspeakers were installed at the bottom of long pipes and made to swing like pendulums over tiny microphones, producing a haunting frequency to the rhythm of their pendulous movement.

Finnbogi Petursson.

Christy Matson

Christy Matson, a left-coast transplant to Chicago, weaves cloth on both hand operated Jacquard looms and industrial Jacquard looms. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Fiber and Material Studies Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received her B.F.A in Studio Art from the University of Washington in 2001 and her M.F.A. in Textiles from CCA in 2005.

Click HERE to watch a quicktime of the performance.		grounded 4-channels of audio, 4 people standing on their heads, 4 contact microphones, 1hour of improvisation. Performed September 6, 2008, in conjunction with Neighborhood Public Radio’s FRELAB (Forward and Reverse Engineering for Live Analog Broadcast) Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago IL A million thanks to Andrea Loest, Carla Duarte, Christine Styx, Dan Becco, Dorie Silverman, Eva Yam, Justin Steinberg, Marissa Paolillo and Nicole Ferrin for standing on your heads!

Brett Ian Balogh: A Noospheric Atlas of the United States (2009)

This work in progress aims to map the hertzian space created by the United States’ mass media broadcast stations. This space is not definable in traditional terms of surveyed boundaries of state and local territories, but rather by electrical fields and consumer markets in the air around us. Geospatial data provided by the FCC is rendered as translucent shapes whose color is determined by the type of service (AM/FM/TV). The resulting image depicts a landscape formed by our collective communications. The project is planned as a series of print atlases as well as a web-based, interactive map database.

More interesting projects at Bret’s website HERE