Followers
A Point Just Passed
A Chorus
Flames Rose Around Her Nose
Platform
Tube
Everybody Laughs
Holy Roller
Animalia Chordata
Tube II
Sin City Saint Machine
Vigil
Can't Help Falling in Love
Oracle
DNA Vending Machine
Temptation in Paradise (Pink)
Monument
Garden Of Eden
Blend
Descent
New York Minute
Double Yolk
The Hereafter Institute
Half the Pressure Twice the Speed
Home Sweet Home
Pile Up
Illuminated Verse
Relic
Eden
For Those Who Wait
Farm
Time Capsule Taxidermy
Spam
Jitterbox
Wall
Augmented Reality Experiments
Secret Society of Forbidden Literature
The Memoryphone
Threads
White Light Afterlife
Collectors
FollowersFollowers is a video sculpture featuring a rabid crowd encased in a ceramic egg. The piece questions the role of technology in our modern day evolution. With increasing access to speed and new technologies, are we becoming more advanced as a civilization or reverting into our primal animalistic selves.
A Point Just PassedA video sculpture featuring a time card punchclock
A ChorusA Chorus, a Renaissance style silent composition of a very Times Square scene: a crowd of New Yorkers pausing to witness something captivating yet unnamed. Featuring over 100 individuals, many of whom either work in or frequent Times Square, the artwork draws a frame around the notion of community and the shared experiences that make up daily life in a post-pandemic New York City.“How does a city heal from being separated for so long, when so much of its interactions are in person, face to face? I created this idea after waiting for my first train ride post-pandemic. It was beautiful to see faces again, to see people smile and scream and cry on the subway. I wanted to capture this feeling of beauty and anxiety.” — Gabriel Barcia-ColomboWithin the artwork, some observers stand in contemplative thought while others snap photos of the awe-inspiring subject, intentionally omitted from the screen. Are these individuals merely observing the plaza below, or are they participating in something sublime, confounding, or even disturbing? Evocative of a Greek chorus, which comments on collective hopes, fears and joys, A Chorus turns the tables on the dynamic between spectacle and audience. Moreover, it serves as a reflection on the barometers of social connection, often overshadowed by our mobile devices and technological distractions.
Flames Rose Around Her NoseA video sculpture depicting a modern day version of Joan of Arc
Platform"Platform" is a video artwork commissioned by MTA Arts and Design by Gabe Barcia-Colombo examining what it means to be back together in a crowd after years spent apart. The work features a large portrait of 40 New Yorkers in a slow motion moment of awe as they come together to examine the passersby in the new Grand Central terminal.
TubeA video sculpture about the transition from the analog to the digital.
Everybody LaughsEverybody Laughs is a music video directed by Gabriel Barcia-Colombo for David Byrne
Holy RollerThe Holy Roller is a slot machine that uses machine learning to generate new pieces of life advice upon every pull of the handle. The sculpture is fed 500,000 quotes from throughout history and writes a new unique quote for each person who pulls the lever on the machine. The piece was inspired by the dopamine release that exists both in the mind of a gambler and that feeling we get when refreshing our social media feeds.
Animalia ChordataA video sculpture featuring tiny people projected into jars
Tube IIA video sculpture about the transition of relationships from the analog to the digital
Sin City Saint MachineSin City Saint Machine is a Nicho box containing 26 different portraits of the “Saints of Las Vegas,” the artists, performers and creative personalities who help run the City of Sin.
VigilA sculpture featuring 9 small video screens sitting in what looks like a church candle Vigil. Each screen shows a revolving set of icons created by AI for humanity based on religious texts, day to day objects and forms of communication and technology. Is this a vigil for the end of humanity? Is this a teaching tool created by AI to help us understand ourselves? Is this a documentation of human society up until now? The work is intentionally a bit vague and alien presented as icons created somewhere between Paleolithic cave paintings and animated gifs. This work is algorithmically controlled by a computer system which decides which symbol to hi- light.
Can't Help Falling in LoveA “holy” portrait of being a modern day artist and performer in Las Vegas. Over the course of the nearly 11 minute video loop, Heidi transforms in and out of being Elvis from inside a neon shrine. The sculpture is about identity, performance, transformation and the labor that goes into being an artist in the city of Sin.
OracleA slot machine that uses machine learning to generate new pieces of life advice upon every pull of the handle. The sculpture is fed 500,000 quotes from throughout history and writes a new unique quote for each person who pulls the lever on the machine. The piece was inspired by the dopamine release that exists both in the mind of a gambler and that feeling we get when refreshing our social media feeds.
DNA Vending Machine
Temptation in Paradise (Pink)
MonumentMonument I is a sculpture which acts as a memorial for those who have passed away on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Each custom vinyl record associated with the piece contains the entire Facebook timeline of a friend of the artist who has passed away. By converting digital media into the analogue format of sound, the artist hopes to preserve the digital profiles and memories of those who have passed away online in a more tangible format. He also seeks to liberate these memories and profiles from corporate ownership and present data in a more human fashion in order to question what sort of cultural rituals and services surrounding death will come about with the advent of new technology?
Garden Of Eden
BlendA video sculpture depicting a small woman in a blender.
DescentThe term avatar comes from the Sanskrit word “avatri” which roughly translated means to appear, or descend into. More and more the presence of avatars in our lives suggest our metamorphosis into virtual bodies and the argument can be made that we can have as many electronic personas as we have time and energy to create. With the rise of social networks, message boards, and augmented reality, in effect we are all lucid dreaming in an awake state. Our lives online exist purely in a space which parodies our actual physical interaction.
New York Minute
Double Yolk
The Hereafter Institute
Half the Pressure Twice the Speed“Half the Pressure, Twice the Speed" is a video sculpture which takes viewers back in time to 1915 when 74 Kent was part of the Eberhard Faber Pencil Company. The saying “Half the Pressure, Twice the Speed” was actually imprinted on Eberhard Faber pencils themselves, and can be seen as a metaphor for a simpler time.
Home Sweet HomeFollowers is a video sculpture featuring a rabid crowd encased in a ceramic egg. The piece questions the role of technology in our modern day evolution. With increasing access to speed and new technologies, are we becoming more advanced as a civilization or reverting into our primal animalistic selves.
Pile Up
Illuminated Verse
RelicRelic is a modern interpretation of a religious relic. Traditionally relics are holy objects, pieces of a saints body preserved to represent the connection between the holy and the human. In this case the relic can be seen as memorializing our relationship to data or our devices.
EdenEden is an Augmented Reality portrait of human connection in a post pandemic world. Two oversized figures sit back to back, cut off from the outside world, yet fully engrossed in their digital lives. A steady stream of objects, messages and data flows out from the two figures’ devices and up into the sky.Throughout the pandemic our lives have existed in a series of virtual spaces which parody our physical selves. We spent our days capturing memories and archiving them on social networks, attending classes in virtual classrooms and endlessly shopping for items, information and attention. In effect, we are all lucid dreaming in an awake state. As we move into 2021, we’ve only begun to discover the societal implications of our year and a half of social distancing. How will the pandemic impact our relationship to our bodies, memories and each other? This sculpture acts both as a memorial for our collective years quarantined inside, and our rapidly changing relationship to technology in the unknown future to come.
For Those Who Wait
Farm
Time Capsule Taxidermy
Spam
Jitterbox
Wall
Augmented Reality Experiments
Secret Society of Forbidden Literature
The Memoryphone
Threads
White Light Afterlife
Collectors
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