Sensoria

Iole Alessandrini
Thom Heileson
Wyndel Hunt
Ed Mannery
Ben McAllister

November 2 – 30, 2007

Sensoria presents two new immersive installations, each integrating light and sound to transform the gallery space, concentrating on the visitor’s sensory perceptions within the specific physicality of a new environment. Each work will in its own way conflate and link different sensory experiences: vision, hearing, and feedback to physical movement.

The exhibition will feature the interactive installation Hidden Spaces, by artist/architect Iole Alessandrini, programmer/composer Ben McAllister and engineer Ed Mannery. In this work, lasers create planes that form flat spatial fields. Through the use of video tracking and computerized sound, the planes are ‘audio-visualized’: people explore, with their own movements, the spaces hidden within the planes of light by triggering sounds made as they intersect these planes.

Also featured is Free Dissociation—a new collaborative work by Thom Heileson and Wyndel Hunt—a three-channel, stereo audio projection installation enveloping the gallery visitor in a textural, audio-visual tapestry that pairs Heileson’s animated visual imagery with Hunt’s similarly abstract sound composition. The artists exploit perceived parallels in their work—which speak in corresponding emotive tones but in different sensory media—to build an immersive perceptual ground delineated by intrinsically linked strata of light and sound.

Read Jen Graves' SLOG post on the show

Hidden Spaces is supported in part by the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.