VP is pleased to announce Lee Jones and Greta Grip’s Media Art + Technology Residency is wrapping up and will be showing from June 23 – September 15, 2023. The artists have been meeting with the VP team to narrow in on specific details of this new interactive work… an evolving/devolving, interactive, data-collecting, technology and craft related artwork that will respond not only to VP’s gallery, but will involve ways of including other areas of the building while drawing together ideas and inspiration from both historical and current activities.
The Life of a Party is a knitting machine that responds to the physical activity of VP, creating one long knitted party streamer to celebrate VP’s 40th year. As individuals walk by the sensor it will knit a row on the streamer, tangibilizing the movement of individuals through the space.
In this series of works panels of yarn are unraveled when individuals walk by or pull on the threads.
The artists have developed textile artwork that responds and unravels with human presence (i.e. people walking by or standing in front of the textile panels). Individuals walking by the installation cause the panels to unravel until they completely disappear.
The theme for MATR this year is (de)PRESS(i)ON, and is a part of a year-long program celebrating and exploring VP’s 40th anniversary, what we are referring to as our Mid-life Crisis™. This program represents STAGE 4: Depression, or, as we like to think, PRESS ON.
