1. The Projects

    Amanda Agricola

    Two projections will emerge from one projector and be mapped onto two air units. The mapping will resemble the shape of old television screens (rounded edges) behind the fence in the alley. One television will display me meditating in raw, surveillance camera footage. The other television will juxtapose chaotic events taking place, such as demolition and fast-motion footage of ants building a colony. A second, smaller, projector will be aimed above the televisions at a mobile that I will construct. That projection will be solely different footage of light sources on the moving shapes.

    Matt Ames

    My brother and I always saw the Asteroids video game in Dorothy Gillespie’s mural on 2nd street in Roanoke. We’d discuss ways to attach the little asteroid ship in the middle of the mural with a few shots coming out of its gun.  Another local artist told me that it sounded like I wanted to “deface public art.” I’d never thought of it that way but eventually the idea of projecting onto the mural sounded more appealing, and possibly easier, then gluing a giant Asteroids ship to a mural in the middle of the night. So, I started to shop the idea around a bit with Tiffany from the Unicorn Stables and Simon from Community High School. Eventually, we got a really solid team of around a dozen artists together to work on what we decided to call PROject proJECT. On July 22nd we plan on an evening of interactive projections, video game projections, old films, projections onto smoke, light suits and more. The event will be held along Kirk Avenue, starting at the Shadowbox and then running through several alleys and ending in front of Dorothy Gillespie’s mural on 2nd street. She turns 91 this summer by the way.

    Jennifer Anderson

    Lissomely So

    This piece highlights the flexibility of a pre-existing object to be repurposed into something new and my desire to generate beauty with a discarded or nonfunctional object. Filmstrips were not only the cutting edge education tool in my 1980s elementary education but they also formed a baseline understanding and appreciations of projections for me at an early age. They have long since fell out of favor and for this project I worked with sharp tools to deliberately remove parts of the emulsion and image from these filmstrips placing decorative patterns over instructional narratives. 

    Christine Carr

    Flashback

    Not too long ago I read an article about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in military veterans. Symptoms include chronic nightmares, flashbacks, insomnia, bouts of anger, paranoia, shame, numbness, withdrawal and feelings of rejection. This condition can last for years and be debilitating not only to the veteran, but also to his/her family and friends.

    This project is in response to this information. For the evening of PROject/proJECT, a sound component reflecting the tragic consequences of the struggle with PTSD will accompany war-related images projected onto billowing smoke. 

    Kat Elizabeth

    America: the

    For the evening of PROject proJECT, Kat will present a video piece that is a memoir of listening outside.

    Simone Paterson

    MMUVA (Movement, Music and Visual Arts) is innovative custom software that uses motion capture to generate digital sound and image through movement. MMUVA was developed through the assistance of an Education Enhancement Grant at Virginia Tech.

    THE MMUVA TEAM

    Dr. Simone Paterson, Principle Investigator.

    Dr. Kelly Parkes, music education specialist.

    Undergraduate computer science student, Sabrina Kilian, code.

    Undergraduate art student, Alex Sailer, graphics.

    Undergraduate art student, Moira Mahoney, dance specialist.

    Undergraduate art student, Maya Renfro, music creation.

    Bob Roberts

    Tubo de Rubens
    Frequencia en llamas

    Tif Robinette and Ralph Eaton

    Civil Rave

    What began as designing a couple of light suits for PROject proJECT has evolved into a multi-media interdisciplinary performance. Civil Rave is a mash-up of Antebellum/Civil War culture and rave culture. Tif Robinette and Ralph Eaton are collaborating with Warren Fry, Emily Campbell, Beth Deel, John Johnson, Samuel Lunsford, and Mateo Marquez to produce Civil Rave. Three couples of Southern Belles and Confederate Soldiers in psychedelicized period costumes will waltz bathed in projections of fiery Civil War imagery to a soundtrack composed specially for this performance.

    Margaret Adams

    The Forgotten

    In this project I will explore the  idea of buildings as witness and the transient human history constantly overwritten and erased which existed around them. Using historic footage and stills I will create a series of memories which will be  projected around the corners, through  alleyways, and in the many nooks and crannies which exist in  Roanoke on Kirk Ave. A transparent and temporary montage of layers of historic imagery  will emerge from the architecture to create a unique  and additive story of the past.  These cumulative histories will be surveyed and viewers  are invited to participate by following a map. This map will be found in the Shadowbox on Kirk Ave.

    Examinations in Light: New Media Work from  select students, faculty, and alumni of the Corcoran College of Art and Design.

     This is a one night pop up event which will showcase artists from the Corcoran  College of Art at the Ann Bondurant Trinkle Gallery. Each participant is a member of the faculty, alumni, or student body of the Corcoran College of Art and Design. The exhibition showcases the Corcoran as a community of artists using new technologies to explore a variety of topics from the documentary, to the new domestic landscape, the examination of family  as well as social investigations using management systems and statistical analysis.

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