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Modulations:
Demonstrations & Discussions of Interactive Performance
An evening of interactive performance curated by
Jim Ruxton
Opening Night: Presented May 9th
at 8pm
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Sound Drawings
by artist Diana Burgoyne
Presented Thursday May 9th at
8 pm
Sound
Drawings begins with sixteen pieces of 38" x 60"
paper, each with a speaker, a sound circuit and two copper
points. At the opening, the electrical properties of graphite
is used to connect the copper points. The connecting of these
points with a graphite line will determine the frequency of
the tone emitted by the speaker of each piece. As the connection
is drawn between more and more points, the room's soundscape
will become dense. For the duration of the show, each drawing
will have an eraser and 6b pencil attached. The audience will
then be invited to participate in the performance by using
the erasers and pencils to change the drawings and therefore
the tonal mix of the room.
Diana Burgoyne - Biography
After completing her BFA at University of Victoria, Diana
Burgoyne went on to take an MFA at UCLA before returning to
Canada. She has exhibited in New York City, San Francisco,
Berlin, France, Holland and throughout Canada. She teaches
a coarse called "Creative Electronics" at Emily
Carr Institute of Art and Design and is a PH.D candidate in
Interactive Arts at The Technical University of British Columbia.
Artist Statement
Thematically, my work responds to relationships between society,
technology, and the human environment by the use of audio,
installation and performance. The audio usually is used metaphorically
as communication. Installation allows me to connect the viewer
physically to the piece. Giving the viewer an active role
makes them part of "the system" referred to in the
work. Performance uses a powerful tool: the body. This tool
juxtaposed with technology creates tension and situations
analogous to society.
When working with technology, I have found it important to
construct humanizing strategies, in what is traditionally
seen as sanitary material. This humanizing aesthetic comes
out of the notion of technology as folk art, and has been
a basis for some of my investigations.The work does not makes
specific comments or criticisms of society, culture, or technology
but rather stimulates the viewer to raise questions.
My recent work starts with a performer standing in the centre
of the room, wearing a mask with a circuit woven into it.
On the far wall is a framed piece of paper with two copper
strips. The circuit emits a tone when you draw connecting
lines with a graphite pencil between the copper strips. The
frequency of the sound is determined by the amount of graphite
between the two copper points. Drawing and erasing lines,
the audience is in control of the sound coming from the mask.
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