Kittredge Gallery
Photo Speakers by Dan Senn
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University of Puget Sound, March 1994
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Constructed from photoscans of a child's face pressed
against glass, rusted wire mesh, pine dowels, pvc
and piezo speakers. Photoscans act as diaphram f
or piezo elements attached from behind playing one of
two channels from a video playback unit.
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Out to Dry
Consists
of 32 photo scans of my face pressed against glass hung beneath
the suspended frame shown in the photo. Two video run continuously
behind the hanging photos: a color video of a mapping of inner-city
weeds taken in downtown Tacoma in the spring of 1993 and the other,
an percussive animation of my face as seen in the photo scans
and played back over an old b/w television. The sound track for
one video machine consists of the text called Appealaspeile, an account of the
bureaucratic ousting of a committed artist from a company position
written and read in a style reminiscent of Kafka work. The stereo
sound track for the other video is a real-time feedback improvisation
from Scrapercussion
#7
made for "No Art Arts Day" in New York City in 1989.
The Trampoline Family
Consists
of three "trampolines" each featuring the crushed face
of a different child as held in a transparency and stretched within
a pine dowel frame. The rusted mesh on each trampoline acts as
a Theremin which senses view proximity (closeness) with the resulting
tone transmitted over piezo speakers attached to the back of the
scanned photographs (the photo act redundantly as a speaker diaphram).