Because I have tried and failed repeatedly to upload my video of this art installation, I offer instead a still shot from the Boston Cyber Arts website. The video would have shown you the generative art installation as the tadpole becomes a frog. Having been around a newborn and a two-year-old this week, I’ve been thinking a lot about how new beings grow into beings that are both different and the same.
Elder Brother is currently more interested in the washer-dryer than anything else on earth. I heard about a man who drives big rigs with ease and was obsessed with gear shifts as a toddler. Will Elder Brother grow into a washer-dryer inventor, repairman, or salesman? Will he just be the guy who is always happy to help out with the wash? Or will this tadpole grown into a man who has no interest in washer-dryers but, for reasons unknown to him, loves the smell of detergent? Time will tell.
Getting back to the art installation, there’s a good description on the Cyber Arts website: “Chunky Frog Time is a new generative art installation by Brian Knep, created for the Boston Harbor Islands Welcome Center located on Boston’s Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway. The … animation is of a frog swimming against the tide of time, cycling from tadpole to juvenile and back with each kick. Moving across an ever changing made-made landscape, the frog’s struggles represent the ebb and flow on the islands, as well as the relationship between nature and our idea of nature.
“Brian Knep is a media artist whose works range from large-scale interactive installations to microscopic sculptures for nematodes. He was the first artist-in-residence at Harvard Medical School, working side-by-side with scientists, using their tools and techniques to explore alternative meanings and ways of connecting to the world.”
More here.
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HI there, my Google alert caught your mention, thanks.
Your thought about “how new beings grow into beings that are both different and the same” is something that crops up in my work quite a bit. In the Healing series, for instance, the pieces heal after you walk over them, but they never heal the same way twice. Like zebra stripes or fingerprints, each is similar yet unique. For some videos, take a look at http://www.blep.com/works/healing-series/.
Also, there are more frogs here, part of another large outdoor display I did at Emerson: https://vimeo.com/33090617
Cheers
So great to have your comment. I am still trying to upload the video I took of your installation. I think I have figured it out. … Your healing series sounds wonderful. I will check out the links, and I hope my readers do, too.