Mark Andreas

                                                  COLOR-LINE -SHAPE-TEXTURE

LMCC Swing Space Residency at Governor’s Island NY, NY

June 21 to July 17, 2013

Color, Line, Shape, Texture is an interactive video sculpture that enables viewers to creatively combine mobile phone videos from across the globe. The project asks people to shoot videos of their surroundings that emphasize one of the elements of design.  Color, Line, Shape, Texture uses these perceptions of the basic building blocks of art making and opens them up to chance combinations.

 The database of videos resides in the sculpture and can be accessed, manipulated and combined through knobs, dials and faders on the interface. For instance, you may see a texture of an intricate rug fabric from India combined with a bike rack shape from China creating an unexpected new composite. 

 The work combines 21st century mobile and networked technologies with a hand crafted sculptural object inspired by hi-fi consoles of the early 1970's. The software and hardware is designed and  made in Finland by Olli Suorlahti  and Sebastian Ziegler, the object is designed and built in Connecticut by Mark Andreas, and the video content is curated and edited by Andrew Haik Demirjian in NYC.  Instead of the knobs being treble or bass on the console they are visual elements of design. For instance, the shape knob allows the user to choose organic or mechanical shapes, the color knob is a choice of warm or cool colors, texture is rough or smooth, line is decorative or division. There are over 500 videos in the data base shot in China, India, Macedonia, Finland, California, Illinois, Tennessee, New York and New Jersey.