Reflected Territories by hoopSnake Opening Reception October 9, 2009

Reflected Territories
by hoopSnake
Good Citizen Gallery
October 9 – November 7 2009
Opening Reception October 9 - 6-10pm
Regular Hours Fri – Sat - Noon –5pm

Good Citizen Gallery is pleased to host a sculpture/sound installation entitled Reflected Territories by the collaborative group hoopSnake. Accompanying the installation will be a new billboard project titled Reflected Territories, Transparent Image Mapping 2 by artist Greg Pond.

hoopSnake is a shifting collaborative company of artists, musicians, and physicists organized by artist Greg Pond that generates new media installations and performances. The first hoopSnake project was a live sound performance at the Hunter Museum of Art in April of 2009. Currently hoopSnake has a video project touring with venues in Dublin, Portland, and Seattle and the group will be participating in the first exhibition organized by the new media advocacy group Upgrade in Tennessee.

Reflected Territories is comprised of two sound sculptures that work in concert with one another. One is a fractal system of stainless steel pyramids that make up a complex series of sound reflectors and baffles. The other is wooden sound sculpture. The pyramid generates a diffuse reflection of sound from iterative surfaces and boundaries to create complex sound fields that repeatedly reform the original sound and affect the perception of space in the spaces where it sits. The second sculpture collects the sounds reflected by the pyramid and reprocesses them into its own set of complimentary noise.

Contributors to hoopSnake for this exhibition are:
Dr Randolph Peterson
Nels Oscar
Tyler Cooney
Stanislav Veselovskyi
Greg Pond

Dr. Randolph Peterson is a Physicist who received his PhD from The University of Tennessee. He has been widely published in many Physics journals and books. He began guiding Greg Pond’s research in electronics and the physics of sound in the Fall of 2006. Since that time, the two have worked collaboratively on a number of projects. Dr. Peterson helped to initiate this work and served as overseer and guide throughout, providing invaluable knowledge and experience.

Nels Oscar is a computer scientist from Asheville, North Carolina who was raised in a family of woodworkers. Nels contributed by managing the CNC layout of the work and played a major role in all parts of the construction and sound tests.

Tyler Cooney is a photographer and makes mirrored sculptures designed to produce unique optical phenomena. All of his work aims to look deeply and uniquely at the world. Tyler did much of the initial design work and assisted in this project

Stanislav Veselovskyi is a Physics student from the Ukraine currently studying in the US. He has studied both with Greg Pond and Randolph Peterson. He contributed much of the initial research for the project.

Greg Pond is an artist, Associate Professor of Art at the University of the South and a founding member of the independent arts organization Fugitive Projects. Pond has been an artist is residence at the F+F School of Art in Zurich and the Burren College of Art in
Ireland. Pond also works as an independent writer, curator, and lecturer with recent projects and events hosted by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture, Fivemyles Gallery in Brooklyn, Delta Axis in Memphis, and the Frist and Cheekwood Museums of Art in Nashville. Pond's own art involves sculpture, sound installation and performance, video,
documentary, electronics, and programming. His work has been exhibited in the United States and abroad in such places as Galway and Dublin, Ireland, Basel, Switzerland, Cairo, Egypt, Portland, Oregon, Austin, Texas, Chicago, New York, Memphis, and Nashville. Recent and upcoming exhibitions, screenings, and performances include Ditch Projects in Oregon, The Hunter Museum in Chattanooga, the University of Arkansas, Flux Factory and EFA Space in New York City, Soil in Seattle Washington, and the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival. He organized the project with Dr Peterson, managed the production, worked on all stages of design and production, and wrote the code that processes the sounds.

The name hoopSnake is derived from the dream of the chemist Friedrich August Kekulé (1829 – 1896) that led him to the discovery of the benzene ring. The pursuit of new aesthetic experience via the intermingling of the rational principles of scientific inquiry with the irrational realms of dreams

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