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Artists Whose Work Relates to Mine

Sound artist Walter Fahndrich created an installation piece called Music for a Quarry for the MASS Moca in 2004. At the nearby Hoosac Marble Quarry he set up 10 loud speakers around the circumference of a circular marble quarry, and tonal music was played for 15 minutes the time of the astronomical sunset every evening. These sounds blended with the twilight bird calls, and created a very contemplative atmosphere. It might be interesting to try a broadcast of bird songs or other tonal sounds at some regular interval for some period of time, to see how it might affect the resident birds. Link: http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=151

Janet Cardiff is a Canadian artist who has produced many audio and video walks as part of museum installations. In her walks she creates a fictional narrative that causes the walker to simultaneously be involved in the narrative of an audio drama (or a video camcorder) while hearing the sounds and the scenes around them in the physical fictional environment created by the physical installation in the museum. The walkers listen to instructions and suggestions. There are shifts between past and present, and memory and reality. These sound walks involve elements of science fiction and investigate the complexities of the technological world, where the distinction between the actual and the imagined is blurred. I could easily incorporate a story into my garden walk. Link: http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=8A01F1ED-BBCF-11D4-A93500D0B7069B40

Natalie Jeremijenko is a new media artist and professor at UCSD working at the intersection of biology, engineering and art. Many of her works are large scale public art works investigating how new technologies can transform our environment. One Tree is a project involving the planting of 1,000 genetically identical microcultured tree clones in a controlled environment. Several San Francisco Bay Area arts and educational institutions have sponsored the planting of pairs of these clones in public places in different regions of the Bar Area. This is intended to demonstrate that identical genes do not necessarily lead to identical plants because of environmental effects. It also demonstrates the importance of planting trees everywhere in urban environments. She has also built a special roof garden in New York City, designed to attract birds. (Link: http://visarts.ucsd.edu/node/view/491/31)

Sharon Loper is a sculptor based in Los Angeles who has an installation of human-size hummingbirds at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz. She watched a hummingbird build a nest and raise its young outside her window, and was inspired to make human-scale nests, constructing them as if she were a hummingbird. They range from two to five feet in height and are constructed of a stainless steel armature, chicken wire, cotton, and plant material. She feels that the nest is a way of bringing us to a less complicated space, using nature. She is working on a new project where she plans to make paintings like a gorilla would paint. (Link: http://www.sculpture.org/portfolio/sculptorPage?sculptor_id=1000040)

Cal Arts Professor Sara Roberts uses sound art in some of her work and has invented a sound recording device called an earbee. These simple hand-held can play up to a minute of looped sound that anyone can use creatively for sound and word games, compositions, plays, dances, walks. She used them in a public participatory art piece where people were given the devices and were asked to make some recordings in a park within a certain time period. At the end of the period, all of the sounds were played simultaneously. Another of her projects, called Silence, was a tour through an abandoned Colorado mine, where visitors were given hardhats and flashlights, and followed audio instructors from a speaker. At certain points they were instructed to turn off their flashlights. Link: http://www.calarts.edu/schools/music/faculty/roberts.html

Mark Dion blends the natural science museum approach of categorization and exhibition with his art, blurring the line between natural science and art exhibit. He uses actual museum bird specimens in imaginary fantasy arrangements. Some of his recent work involves urban archeology, such as The Thames Dig. Discarded objects, arranged like a science museum exhibit, take on new meaning and visual interest. I could imagine using ideas of found objects in my work. Also, the idea of my field notebook relating to both science and art is blurring this type of distinction. Link: http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=8A01F351-BBCF-11D4-A93500D0B7069B40 Fluxus Telepresence Parrot