as the listening to that which wants to be done
Inspiration leads to conversation, sparking action, movement, a plan, and then the work takes form. The art we make grows from the interactions of two people in collaboration, a process that requires openness, trust, consensus and belief that the direction chosen will lead to our collective goals.
The results range from object based artworks, performative events and videos, to public art festivals. The process is not so much about producing an object as it is conceptual, about expanding on ideas, building relationships and engagement.
We’re driven to make art that focuses on the present, using technologies of our time, to question how social and political systems relate, build, interact, or harm society. We are concerned with the politics of living in a world of mass surveillance, with maintaining and strengthening the power of our collective voice through art. To communicate, to provoke conversation, to engage, this is the framework for our artistic practice.
Collaborations in art
2010-2024
Our materials are varied – paper, ice, glass, the reflection and refraction of light,
generative processes of transformation, disappearance and reappearance
Recent Works and Editions
Our art practice is materials-based, intersecting conceptual art and contemporary fabrication at the crossroads of tradition and craft. Making use of mechanical and digital production processes allows for iteration. Some of these works are limited editions.
Fiber Optic Data Tapestries
The fiber optic data tapestries started out as a dream. Soon we realized they connected weaving and textiles with information science, computing and coding, revealing the continuous flow of data around us with the brilliance and iridescence of silk. Information sheathes us like an invisible second skin.
Public Space/Public Artworks
Public space is a resource and site for free expression. Our public artworks are temporary monuments critical to democracy, freedom of speech, access to information and the environment. We’ve shown these works in libraries, city and state parks around the country.
Installations
Our installations set objects from earlier traditions and eras on a collision course with contemporary culture and media. Video screens bisect Bibles, medieval codex books and clocks. Hollywood war films invisible to the naked eye dance like angels on the head of a pin. Closed-circuit cameras record and transmit the sketching of plein-aire artists on easels over the internet juxtaposing the intersection between real-time and virtual worlds in the Crater Drawing Contests
Videos
For the past 10 years live video streaming and single channel time lapse videos have been central elements in our work. We started making videos in Barcelona with Talk Attacks in 1983. In the 1990’s, it became sculptural, embedding video into the faces of clocks, in the pages of books and newspapers, and in installations.