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Seventh Kingdom
A selection of new biological forms from the wastes of older ones. |
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Sonic Primordia
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Hygro Rhizome
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Circuit Cerebellum
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Firefly 2.0
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8 Bit Crickets
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E-Rosa
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E-Rosa Drawings
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City Fish
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The Seventh Kingdom is a selection of active, interactive and reactive works based on the emergence of new biological forms from the wastes of older ones. As human-created waste from manufacturing and obsolescent technology spreads through more environments and ecosystems other living things adapt to it or, more often, disappear. But as the wastes become more complex, including structural elements, electronic components and power sources a potential exists for new biogenic forms will arise in a new taxonomic class that scavenges and builds on the waste of its predecessors.
The name Seventh Kingdom is derived from classical biological taxonomy: the currently recognized taxonomic kingdoms include Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists, Archaeons and Bacteria. The Seventh Kingdom incorporates detritus ranging from structural elements such as discarded dryer vent hose, plumbing pipes, guitar strings, and anti-static bags to potentially reactive and dynamic elements such as speakers, electronic components and recycled power supplies. The Seventh Kingdom weaves together these elements into post-biological creations that both act and react to their environment.
China Blue, an internationally exhibiting artist known for her sound art installations, expands on her interest in sound in creating the “Seventh Kingdom.” These new works use sound, interaction and circuitry to creating eerie, fascinating and beautiful pieces that anticipate what our future environment might look and sound like. This exhibition was held at the University of Rhode Island.
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Sonic Primordia, 2010
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“Sonic Primordia” is an installation built on "We are all star stuff harvesting star light," by Carl Sagan. The structural elements of the piece consists of a pair of 6 foot tall human lungs with bronchia made from dryer vents, recycled vinyl sheeting and PVC pipes. Housed within this structure are speakers connected to a discarded stereo amplifier which plays biological and data-derived channels of sounds through the lungs, controlled via a laptop. Viewers can interact with and control the sounds of the piece via a pair of joysticks, modifying sounds including human heartbeats and the audio shifted sounds of the big bang explosion and the video.
Size: 72"h x 18"w x variable
Materials: This free form design is fabricated from every-day recognizable materials: vent hose (commonly used for household dryers), plastic, an audio amplifier, game controller, computer and speakers. 2 joysticks alter the audio and video enabling people to gig with the piece.
Video: Animation from NASA
Programming: Marte Roel
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Hygro Rhizome, 2010
“Hygro Rhizome” is group of 6 interconnected sculptural rhizomes, root-like structures of biological plants, each with their own circuit that measures the water supply in an attached beaker. As long as there is water, the rhizome remains internally illuminated, dimming and going dark as the water evaporates or is contaminated.
Size: 9"w x 4.5"h x 4"d
Materials: recycled guitar strings (roots), cast resin (body), painted recycled water bottles (leaves) and water sensing circuit.
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Circuit Cerebellum, 2008
“Circuit Cerebellum” is a sculptural piece mixing an anatomical model of the human brain with recycled electronic components, symbolizing the posthuman possibilities of expanding the human consciousness with additional components of our own manufacture.
Size: 7"w x 6"h x 6"d
Materials: plaster brain with resistors and capacitors
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Firefly 2.0, 2010
Firefly 2.0 is an artbot informed by DIY aesthetics. The piece which is made out of recycled materials, skitters unpredictably while flashing a large blue led. In a whimsical manner it harkens back to wonderful summertime childhood experiences collecting bugs. The work was inspired by the idea of the emergence of new living forms from the wastes of older ones. As the wastes become more complex, including structural elements, electronic components and power sources a potential exists for new biomimetic forms to arise in a new taxonomic class that scavenges and builds on the waste of its predecessors. The artbot is based on BEAM robotic technology which is using simple analog circuits to create and unusually simple design.
Materials: pager motor, guitar strings, water bottle wings & F-led.
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8 Bit Cricket Chorus, 2010
The group of four “8 Bit Crickets” consist of antiphotoreactive electronic crickets in circuit cages that sing only in the dark, growing silent in the light like their biological counterparts. These crickets create their own dark-dependent rhythmically compelling songs, entitled: “The 8 Bit Cricket Chorus.”
4 "8 Bit Crickets" 70"h x 16"w each
Materials: Mixed media and electronic components. |
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Small 8 Bit Cricket
Materials: Mixed media and electronic components.
16"h x 8"w x 8"d
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Small 8 Bit Cricket
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E-Rosa, 2010
“E-Rosa” is a light responsive, vine-like piece, fabricated from recycled anti-static bags, guitar strings, acetate and electronic circuits. When their self-contained lumination turns on, the vine reacts by trembling. The series of drawings of the “E-Rosa” are works that capture this technological transformation of nature with elegance.
Materials: guitar strings, pager motors, recycled anti-static circuit bags, acetate, electronic components. |
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E-Rosa, 2010
5 Drawings
Sizes: 23" x 29" each
Materials: Recycled anti-static circuit bags, acetate and acrylic on paper.
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China Blue is an internationally exhibiting artist who was the first person to record the Eiffel Tower in Paris France and Nasa's Vertical Gun at the Ames Research Center. Her work has been shown, galleries and non-profit spaces in Finland, Sweden, France and the US. She was the US representative at OPEN XI, Venice, Italy, an exhibition held in conjunction with the Architecture Biennale. Her work has also been shown at the Melbourne International Arts Festival in Australia and the Armory Fair in New York. Reviews of her work have been published in the New York Times, Art in America, Art Forum, artCritical and NY Arts to name a few. She has been interviewed by France 3 (TV), for the film “Com-mu-nity” produced by the Architecture Institute of America and was the featured artist for the 2006 annual meeting of the Acoustic Society of America. She has been an adjunct professor and Fellow at Brown University in the United States. Her work is represented by Galerie Barnoud, Dijon, France and Art Currents, New York, NY.
"Her work is real art...brilliant work"
Paul Hasegawa-Overacker, Director (first
director) of Guest of Cindy Sherman, and the Director and Publisher of
GalleryBeat Media
She is "pioneering a really challenging terrain and doing so with incredible formal strength"
Ed Winkleman, Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY
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