Visual Art Mar 11, 2010 at 4:00 am

What a Camera Monster, a Lightning Field, and 19th-Century Chemicals Have in Common

You’re Invited Into A spiral jetty. All images courtesy Lawrimore Project

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These photographs do an injustice. The show images looks stagey and boring because all the lights are on to see the set up. It's best when just a few lights flicker coming on or going off. Better images Mr. Lawrimore?

You can't judge this show by it's images or even by this review. It's mesmerizing. Go.
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Lucas: Your commenting about the impossibility of capturing this work in a photograph reinforces the review pretty succinctly, whether you meant it to or not!
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so feedback loops constitute art these days. Fucking boring, unoriginal, and uninspiring. More pretentious crap from the PCNW.
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well fer what its worth, if anything at all....I thought the review was interesting. I'm going to try n catch it in person, me thinks...bah.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LLAN29W-…

check this music video by the band BATTLES if you like that art project. it will blow your mind.
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"so feedback loops constitute art these days."

All art is a feedback loop. As far as I know, this has always been the case.
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yesterday we parked in the center of chinatown and walked here. we opened the large metal door and once we'd closed it behind us (so that the cat with misshapen front paws who greeted us wouldn't escape) we forgot about chinatown and the rest of the world. the world outside the door may have actually disappeared completely. the piece has so many layers we stayed for well over an hour, walking between rooms and creating our sense of it. i'm still reeling and plan to return with a few chosen friends who will likely be impressed just as i was. yes. go. it's fuckin' sick.

i think there is an interactive audio component to the installation as well. we realised this when my girlfriend coughed amidst the swirling of mister rice's fluorescent tubes. there are clicking relays above controlling the lights...the sound of the motor that pans the camera around on its tripod...the impressive display of equipment and mess of wires that i found to be quite sexy.... the installation has its own atmosphere. everything is well thought out and executed with incredible precision. at the top of every fluorescent tube are three wires; one suspending the tube which sports a very tidy knot, and two very thin-gauge power wires wrapped in heat-shrink tubing that terminate into a slick little connector. the feedback loops and how they're manipulated and fudged with are a trip. no detail is overlooked and the overall effect is absolutely inspired.

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