March 15 - April 18, 2007
Main Space
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to walk among the pixels of your favorite movie? What would this experience look like? Would this reductive environment still retain recognizable aspects of the source footage? What are the ramifications of this conceptual supplement? How does it add to our understanding of the original? To digital imagery? To color theory? To narrative video? To sculpture? And, taking the other meaning of ‘supplement,’ how does it supplant the above? These are just some of the questions broached by Rice’s sculptural light installation, Resolution.
The Premise: To begin at the beginning. Play recognizable video footage on just three pixels – red, green and blue— that, when combined, create the true color of a given digital moment. The Realization: Three large (6 foot diameter) domes geodesically constructed of hundreds of bulbous polyethylene facets, each dome housing computer monitors playing the ever-changing degrees of red, green and blue in the selected video vignettes.
White Cube
The History of Television: 1974-2006
The Premise: To pay homage to historical precedence. In 1974, Nam June Paik placed a statue of Buddha before a television, allowing him to contemplate his own image via video. In the thirty-two years since TV Buddha, video as an artistic medium has continually served as a self-reflective device, whether the camera is turned upon oneself for immediate feedback or the artist points a critical lens at television and digital media’s cultural pervasiveness. The Realization: Sixteen vacuum-formed polyethylene iterations of a small Buddha statue sitting atop sixteen cathode-ray-tube televisions playing ‘rhythmic’ visual noise loops. For each iteration, the vacuum was reversed, gently ‘puffing’ up the original until it was almost unrecognizable. The Transparency: Due to limitations of space, The History of Television: 1974-2006 has been reduced to sixteen elements instead of the thirty-two it had in its original Gallery 4Culture installation. Each element now represents two year increments since Paik’s gesture.
Black Box:
Apotheosis, 2006
The Premise: A climax. An attempt at pure experience by exploring qualities of light, the sculptural potential of technology, and non-objective video. The Realization: Eleven meditative videos of colors sedately moving from cool to warm and back again seen through forty-four tumescent polyethylene forms mounted on pc monitors.
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tivon rice • resolution
Installation views in the main space of Resolution.
Installation view in the white cube of The History of Television: 1974-2006.
Installation view in the black box of Apotheosis.
