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Get ready for dazzling virtual scupture

Presenting sculpture as 3-D models and working exclusively in virtual space, the team of Tony Buchen and Jazzmean Goodwin present Indoor/Outdoor Screenings, a one-night-only presentation this Thursday, consisting of five continuously looping displays, each providing a narrative to a particular sculpture. Buchen expands:

What inspired this idea?

In 2001, Buchen/Goodwin began developing a genre of sculpture [that] involves a new way of conceptualizing and relating to three dimensional form; one in which physicality is not an issue; one in which photography is the key ingredient.

What is "virtual sculpture"?

Our sculpture is developed as virtual 3-D models. Although the equations which define these sculptures can be outputted as physical objects, it is our primary intent to explore and present it via the photography unique to virtual space, as stills and video.

How do you use the visual narrative to tell the tale of the objects?

Each video is intended as the visual narrative of a specific sculpture. Unique experiences of objects are possible in the virtual realm: a moment of transition in its temporal life, the inner nature of its structure, a glimpse of the vast amount of space an object actually contains. These experiences of sculpture are not pragmatically feasible in the physical world.

What can attendees to the show expect?

To experience an object as fluid and dynamic via photographic stills, video and 3-D print installations.

Indoor/Outdoor Screenings
5 pm Thursday, Nov. 13
AVA/A Virtual Artspace
316 Read St.,
795-8139

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