Install shot, "Place/Displace" exhibition at Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn

  048 Computational Landscape Series / 2021  

"Computational Landscape Series" is a series of studies creating narrative experiences from computational landscape photography. Using a 3D scanning app on a smart phone, a physical scene is first captured via the LiDAR sensor, then imported as a 3D model into a software environment. Narrative, sonic, and theatric elements are then staged in short looping videos, which are presented on small square screens. The studies were born from a desire to explore new ways of experiencing places, different from traditional photography and audio field recording.

A STRANGE EVENT THAT NO ONE EXPERIENCED

“A Strange Event That No One Experienced” is part of a series of works creating narrative experiences from computational landscape photography. Using a 3D scanning app on a smart phone, the physical scene was first captured, then imported as a 3D model into a software environment. The work depicts a seemingly supernatural event, just missed by someone nearby. We saw it happen, but the color magenta introduces doubt as to whether we can believe our own eyes. Magenta, being ostensibly “between” violet and red on the color spectrum, doesn’t actually exist in the physical spectrum of visible light. Beyond violet is ultraviolet, below red is infrared. Thus, magenta is just a hallucination that our brain conjures up to make sense of the wavelengths that are entering our eyes.

  Video on Vimeo  

A MODEL THAT IS WRONG BUT USEFUL

“All models are wrong but some are useful” is a quote attributed to statistician George Box. Though he meant to only describe scientific and statistical models, the statement may be expanded to describe all kinds of simulations and descriptions of reality. “A Model That is Wrong But Useful” is part of a series of works creating narrative experiences from computational landscape photography. Using a 3D scanning app on a smart phone, the physical scene was first captured, then imported as a 3D model into a software environment. Here, there is clearly something wrong with the re-constructed reality of the scene. The extent that it may be useful, as with all art, is up to the individual.

  Video on Vimeo  

AN INFRASONIC PERCEPTION

“An Infrasonic Perception” is part of a series of works creating narrative experiences from computational landscape photography. Using a 3D scanning app on a smart phone, the physical scene was first captured, then imported as a 3D model into a software environment. The camera flies through a wintry landscape, shaking with sonic earthquakes. The land falls off into a checkerboard transparency, the alpha void. Either there’s nothing beyond, or our instruments of perception aren’t capable of seeing.

  Video on Vimeo  

View of 4" square Hyperpixel screen + Raspberry Pi computer