Everybody's got to start somewhere!
Here's an excerpt from the Urban Tulsa Weekly talking about Geoffrey Hick's art gallery, which was opened throughout the month of March.
Both the "Cubed Interactive" and "Switch" projects are briefly mentioned, but it was a little bit exciting that it talked about me specifically, although not by name.
"A couple weeks ago, I attended Geoffrey Hicks' (www. geoph. com) interactive art show at the Tulsa Artists' Coalition (www. tacgallery. org) for the New Genre Festival. It was the first time I'd seen tetherball played indoors. Additionally, it was new to see a couple reacting to tetherball by making out. In Tulsa, tetherball and Twinkies are considered erotic. Maybe it's just the alliteration.
The TAC is a small gallery, no larger than an average living room, at 9 E. Brady. By the time you read this Geoffrey's work will no longer be hanging from the TAC walls, but Geoffrey, one of Tulsa's more innovative artists, will still be around. If you have yet to see his work I suggest keeping your eyes open for his next show, because it's unlike any other you will attend.
For me, it was a night filled with watching friends pummel a tetherball. One, a man, with the only edge he thought he needed: being a man; the other, a woman, with years of tetherball experience. I'll let you guess on the victor, but will add: she was really good and he was a he. For the remainder of the evening I left childish phone messages, observed people trapped in boxes, and turned on and off lights to get a better view of an attractive woman. Somehow it all seemed perfectly normal until I just explained it."
Here are two of the pictures from the lightswitch project:
Basically the interactive picture frame gave the illusion that you could turn the lights on and off when you flipped a combination of lightswitches next to the frame.
And of course my part from the famous cubed interactive project which involved 100 people:
The full article can be read here: http://www. urbantulsa. com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A20647
Both the "Cubed Interactive" and "Switch" projects are briefly mentioned, but it was a little bit exciting that it talked about me specifically, although not by name.
"A couple weeks ago, I attended Geoffrey Hicks' (www. geoph. com) interactive art show at the Tulsa Artists' Coalition (www. tacgallery. org) for the New Genre Festival. It was the first time I'd seen tetherball played indoors. Additionally, it was new to see a couple reacting to tetherball by making out. In Tulsa, tetherball and Twinkies are considered erotic. Maybe it's just the alliteration.
The TAC is a small gallery, no larger than an average living room, at 9 E. Brady. By the time you read this Geoffrey's work will no longer be hanging from the TAC walls, but Geoffrey, one of Tulsa's more innovative artists, will still be around. If you have yet to see his work I suggest keeping your eyes open for his next show, because it's unlike any other you will attend.
For me, it was a night filled with watching friends pummel a tetherball. One, a man, with the only edge he thought he needed: being a man; the other, a woman, with years of tetherball experience. I'll let you guess on the victor, but will add: she was really good and he was a he. For the remainder of the evening I left childish phone messages, observed people trapped in boxes, and turned on and off lights to get a better view of an attractive woman. Somehow it all seemed perfectly normal until I just explained it."
Here are two of the pictures from the lightswitch project:
Basically the interactive picture frame gave the illusion that you could turn the lights on and off when you flipped a combination of lightswitches next to the frame.
And of course my part from the famous cubed interactive project which involved 100 people:
The full article can be read here: http://www. urbantulsa. com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A20647