Joe Zane

These images are part of an ongoing project. Books and periodicals from the 1970′s, dealing with conceptual art, are checked out from a library. I insert myself into the books, and place them back on the shelves. The images shown here are from the following: Live in Your Head:When Attitudes Become Form, Conceptual Art by Ursula Meyer and Artforum, Feb. 1972

This is a series of small sculptures using various LCD screens. The viewer interacts with the displays (by pushing buttons, touching wires or through infra-red sensors), the interaction creates changing patterns on the screen that resemble hard edged painting.

Upon entering the gallery, the viewer finds a life size projection of the artist on the wall. A small sonar sensor lays on the floor in front of the image. Upon walking closer, the image gradually breaks up becoming more and more pixelated. The pixilization is accompanied by a corresponding sound that raises in pitch as the image continues to distort. The closer the viewer gets to the image, the more ‘digital’ it becomes, with information being reduced to smaller and smaller quanta.

A feedback loop is created when a user initiates the piece by creating a sound into a microphone on the floor. The sound creates a picture, the picture creates a sound, which creates a new picture, which creates a new sound ad nauseum… …

Sampled interviews (from the 1970′s) with eleven artist are randomly spliced and mixed by a computer. The resulting video is projected largely, high up on the gallery wall. Opposite the video projection, on the floor, is a small surveillance monitor show a live feed from the artist studio. The hazy image of stack of books (one book on each of the eleven artists) can be made out on the monitor.

This small sculpture displays a video of the artist’s face on an LCD television that moves in an arcing motion slightly out of sync with a mechanical arm that moves the television along the same arc.