A Septal Plate Baffling; or, Some Small Sounds Surrounding a Shim
2024
Hand-drawn animation, collage, projection-mapping, and automation of plywood surfaces through hand-built electronics, hobby motors, and visual programming. Contact mics, speaker, wire brush, springs, metal ruler, and sharpening stone.
A Septal Plate Baffling; or, Some Small Sounds Surrounding a Shim involves reworking images from the mass-produced Time-Life 1977 Do-It-Yourself home improvement book, New Spaces for Living. The work combines hand-drawn animation, collage, projection-mapping, and automation of plywood surfaces through hand-built electronics, hobby motors, and visual programming. Alongside the projected animations and moving surfaces are “live-foley” sounds produced by automating everyday objects (wire brush, springs, metal ruler, sharpening stone, etc.) within the same physical space of the work.
Installation of A Septal Plate Baffling (…) produced as Artist-in-Residence in Fiskars, Finland, July 2024. The work was also exhibited at The Space Between Media Arts Festival (2025 in Sellasia, Laconia, Greece).
link to The Space Between Media Arts Festival documentation video