Airlock Park

This body of work imagines a time when all of the image collections in the world — the paintings in museums, all films and broadcasts, the video databases of YouTube — have fallen into ruin, the remaining fragments thereby available as material for new constructions. The constructions in Airlock Park are navigable tableaux, or scenes, built from the detritus of images, and they allude to themes of media legacies and of the obsolescence of technology.
The work is presented as an audiovisual installation playing in a darkened space ([diagram]). The hardware underlying the work is a customized Sony PlayStation 3 game machine.
Presently the Airlock Park series is comprised of the following scenes.

_Pyres_

  • Sent bird, 2011
  • Adjuster's widow, 2011
  • The Lightfall steppes, 2010

_Postbellum_

  • Mentioned in dispatches, 2009
  • Rebel yell, 2009
  • Mockingbird hill, 2009
There are thematic concerns linking the scenes, and the viewer may jump from one to another using "warp" points. Screen grabs and video of the work are to the right.
The following additions to Airlock Park are forthcoming in 2012-13.

_Congress_

  • Part and instrument
  • Truster walk
  • Four fathers

Screen Grabs

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Sent bird, 2011
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Adjuster's widow, 2011
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The Lightfall steppes, 2010
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Mentioned in dispatches, 2009
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Rebel yell, 2009
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Mockingbird hill, 2009

Sample recorded video

The videos are of sample flights on autopilot. The actual installed work runs continuously and may be guided by the viewer.
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Sent bird, 2011
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Adjuster's widow, 2011
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The Lightfall steppes, 2010
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Mentioned in dispatches, 2009
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Rebel yell, 2009
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Mockingbird hill, 2009