weight of water no. one
date: 2017
media: web-based installation
size: size + duration varies with browser, device, and client
history: exhibited fringe festival philadelphia pa
Weight of Water constitutes a series of artworks made over the course of two years by TangenT in partnership with community organizations, activists, and representatives from the EPA and CDC. No. One in the series is a digital artwork comprised of archival footage, digital object renderings, portraits, interviews, site photographs and Google Earth Street View video. It is a collaged meditation on impact, suffering, responsibility and governance inspired by well poisonings in the Philadelphia metropolitan region. It premiered at the Philadelphia Fringe Fest as part of their Digital Fringe Programming.
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weight of water no. two
date: 2018
media: unglazed ceramic molecules (benzene, chromic acid, naphthalene, PCE, PFA, PFOS, TCE, toluene) cast from laser sintered 3D prints (produced from original 3D digital models), projection mapped video of modeled and scripted animation blood flow in artery (80s loop, 1920 X 1080p)
size: size varies with installation
history: work in progress
weight of water no. one
test footage: weight of water no. two
weight of water no. two
weight of water no. two
date: 2016
media: web-based installation
size: size + duration varies with browser, device, and client
history: exhibited cruxspace fringe festival philadelphia pa
diASp0RA is a multi-media meditation on global population displacement. Originating with singular stories of refugees, diASp0RA explores the ideological, economic + environmental causalities of world scale disruptions.
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date: 2016
media: orange gold leaf on hydrocal plaster cast from 3D print
size: 13.5 h x 11 w x 11 d
history: exhibited cruxspace philadelphia pa
The work is a spoof on Bertelli’s famous Profilo Continuo (Testa di Mussolini) of 1933. It replaces the fascist dictator with an open-mouthed profile of a certain President of the United States, and changes the material from a burnished black terra-cotta to a polished orange-gold leaf. The work is produced, not by a manipulation on a potter’s wheel, but rather by rotating a bezier curve about an origin axis.
These changes of content, material, and technique shift the metaphor from an all-knowing, all-seeing superman-machine in the Italian Futurist mode, to an all-consuming, idiocentric blowhard screaming at everything, seeing nothing.
date: 2014
media: video loop, glassine envelopes, vinyl, fasteners, qr code, crowdsourced drawings and photos on delrin
size: size varies with installation, 6m video loop duration
history: exhibited olde city publishing philadelphia pa
A crowdsourced exercise in drawing and erasure. Put the post back in posting, while only using up 30 seconds of your allotted 15 minutes of fame. How does it work? TangenT will put YOUR drawing in the wall! Make a blackgraywhite drawing related to the terms BROKEN and/or SPOKEN.
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screenshots and context
storefront view
video component
date: 2014
media: audio/video
size: 1280x640px 50s audio/video loops
history: exhibited commerce square, kimmel center for the performing arts, philadelphia pa
Kimmel | 4 video series using crowdsourced video footage and soundtrack by Mike "Slo-Mo" Brenner:
porch
phone
escalator
snow
Commerce Square | 4 video series reprising googleman from 709b:
googleman eat
googleman jog
googleman read
googleman snow
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date: 2013
media: wood, ink, wax, fasteners
size: 4 elements at 120 x 3.5 x 3.5, spacing varies with installation
history: exhibited pearlstein gallery, drexel university, philadelphia pa
Group exhibition titled Spatial Translations in collaboration with InLiquid.org
Second work included illustrated at bottom:
ser13a
date:2013
media: paper, plaster, fasteners
size: 22hx150w
date: 2013
media: video
size: 1080x1920px 10s loop duration, projection size varies with installation
history: exhibition at LUMEN festival, new york ny
A second iteration was exhibited with the two halves on separate screens a the MaThematic exhibition, Esther Klein Gallery, part of DesignPhiladelphia 2015
date: 2013
media: airwater: video loop, teacup
media: earthfire: video loop, plexiglas, vintage irons
size: varies with installation, teacup 3.5x4.5x4.5, irons approximately 12x6x6, plexiglas elements average 36x8x0.375
history: exhibited HACK 2.0 philadelphia pa, in association with philly tech week
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date: 2012
media: wood, ink, wax
size: fit to installation, here shown ~120hx2x2 per each unit
history: shown seton hall university art gallery newark nj
date: 2011
media: audio/video loops, astroturf, topsoil, mobile-scannable images, website
size: varies with installation, ground projected loop 31m44s, mobile-access loops average 5m
history: exhibited international house philadelphia pa
709b is a polyptych, a multi-media cloud-based project taking the viewer on a virtual video voyeur voyage. 709b explores current states of identity, place, private and public expressions of daily life, untangling our culture's conflation of the mask with the map and, in turn, the map with the thing mapped.
Originally created as two synchronized loops, the footage has been de-concatenated into a multiple, asynchrous experience. In installation form, this occurs with a mobile device, the viewer scanning images bridged to cloud-based videos seen in any desired order alongside mesmerizing, looping video projected on a ground-based model of Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square. On the website, the spirit of the installation is invoked by simultaneously autorunning embeds... intended strictly for desktop viewing. For mobile access, the original synched diptych is available.
709b features hypnotic guitar loops by Philly's Mike "Slo-Mo" Brenner, public domain found sound and recordings of so-called "number stations" purportedly used by state-based intelligence organizations for one-way, coded communication.
TangenT thanks Jennifer Schick and the amazing Zimmermans at InLiquid.com, Renae Dinerman at International House, Claudia Mezey, Beth Van Why at Design Philadelphia, Arielle Gottlieb at Parc Restaurant and Natashia Mtshali at Allan Domb Real Estate.
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