Art Inspired by Music Inspired by the Sciences

Misprint Thursday invited me to participate in an exhibition called Visualizing Theorem. The show is being hosted by UTSA Adminstrative Island. The basis of the work is music that is inspired by math and science. Each artist chooses a musical piece to inspire an artwork. http://www.musictheorem.com/theorem/Cover.html

I chose 002 "Error Code" because I liked the quick-paced rhythms, the electronic stacato, drum beat and the soft but off chord melody. It was pervasive, like the rhythm of rain and light patterns. As usual, I had to go through several iterations and failures to finally discover what I could do to best express the music. My work hasn't much to do with math and science or an error code. Its all about what the music inspired.

Photos above show the 100 prim piece created for 002. There will be teleports to the various artists submissions.

ARTISTS 0001 • Time/Space- Werner Kurosowa 0002 • Error Code 0c7-Sledge Roffo 0003 • Dark Energy -Betty Tureaud 0004 • Division by Zero -Oberon Onmura 0005 • Mitochondrial Savannah 0006 • Phases- Miso Susanowa 0007 • Positron -Penumbra Carter 0008 • AbioGenesis -Binary Quandry 0009 • No E Level-Misprint Thursday 0010 • Moons Of Galileo-Douglas and Desde 0011 • Socratic Paradox 0012 • Neolithic Revolution 0013 • Event Horizon- Scarp Godenot 0014 • Hypnagogia 0015 • Aleatoric 0016 • Ladder Contraction

The opening for the exhibit is set for Saturday April 2, at 4 pm SLT

http://www.musictheorem.com/theorem/Cover.html

Error Code slurl:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/UTSA%20Roadrunner%20III/70/200/25

A wonderful catalog of the exhibit: http://issuu.com/misprint/docs/visualizing_theorem_catalog_final

Art Breaker II - Album Cover Theme

Pendulum's album cover looked like something I could make for the album cover theme for Art Breaker at the Pop Art Lab this year. There are only a few more weeks left before it opens and there is much to do. I've enlisted the great minds and talents of two collaborators - Desdemona Enfield and Jewel MacMoragh to help me make this a fun and lively interpretation. Desdemona is well known for her scripting and builds quite well too. Jewel has helped me several times with her clever textures and inspiration.

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Desdemona_Enfield

Frankly, I don't know too much about the music but the cover art is pretty cool.

Artist Michael Knutson

Shown above:

Bipolar Coils II, oil on canvas, 183 x 366 cm (72 x 144 in), 2008 San Romano, acrylic on canvas, 213 x 152 cm(84 x 60 in), 1981

Tango, acrylic on canvas, 152 x 213 cm (60 x 84 in), 1982

A local artist...painter. I was looking at representations of "tango" and came across this great article showing a vast portfolio of his work. I'm impressed. They are very organized and geometric, yet organic.

http://www.geoform.net/features/features_knutson.html

House Full of Shadows

Pirats - Omega Art Gallery, PiRats Art Network (63, 77, 85)

Featured on the poster is a picture from the exhibit that I brought to this gallery. Its called a House Full of Shadows. It's a 3D experience that falls into a category that is only possible in a virtal world - where else could I build something like this? Come experience it and let the shadows play on your avi.

The textures were created by Jewel MacMoragh, my ex partner and collaborator. This House Full of Shadows is dedicated to her and our memories together and to everyone that has enjoyed time with another and loved another. On the wall is an excerpt from a song..."In this House full of shadows, while the rain keeps pouring down my window too, when will the pain recede to the darkness, from whence it is come and I'm feeling so blue". Van Morrison wrote these words in "Reminds Me of You".

Georgia

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Puffball/71/135/21/?title=PRAKA%20Fine%20Arts%20Gallery&msg=Sledge%20Roffo%27s%20%22Georgia%22 Saturday, December 11 6-8 pm Opening Event at PRAKA gallery In this series, a challenging one I might add, I attempted some Georgia O'Keefe itype mages using only one prim shape - the torus. I wrote about this series months ago and this opportunity for a solo show presented itself - thanks to Morgana. The poster is fantastic! Updated: The Opening is a Success and still going strong! Here's a little something someone wrote about it: http://nordanomjorden.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/review-praka-twilight/

Dots and optical Illusions

Cool stuff........due in part to exact complimentary color usage.

Dot Crazy - Yayoi Kusama

She is 80 now...but was avant-garde in years past. She is crazy for dots!

http://www.yayoi-kusama.jp/e/happening/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq0LXh3sais