Susan Robb's "Warmth Giant Black Toobs"
Susan Robb is a Seattle-based artist whose work includes these 50' long, air-filled, sun-powered sculptures made out of garbage-can liners:
At first the tubes seem to be moving in slow motion, but when humans enter the frame it becomes clear that the video's speed isn't manipulated.
Robb has also done some work where she creates a face out of landscape using image mirroring:
Warmth Giant Black Toobs, 2007
Susan Robb
Susan Robb
At first the tubes seem to be moving in slow motion, but when humans enter the frame it becomes clear that the video's speed isn't manipulated.
Robb has also done some work where she creates a face out of landscape using image mirroring:
I Am A Land Animal, 2008
Susan Robb
Epson archival inkjet print, paper, glass, powder coated steel shelf
22 x 28 x 6 inches
It reminded me a bit of Anthroptic, a project I did with author Benjamin Rosenbaum in which we used facial recognition software to find faces where none exist (and tied them together using short stories):Susan Robb
Epson archival inkjet print, paper, glass, powder coated steel shelf
22 x 28 x 6 inches
"Citizens" from Anthroptic, 2006
Ethan Ham & Benjamin Rosenbaum
Photograph & audio
Ethan Ham & Benjamin Rosenbaum
Photograph & audio
The story which goes with Citizens is one of my favorites from the series (I also particularly like The Gardeners of Rhododendrons). Click here to hear the audio read by the wonderful Vanessa Hart (or here to read the text).
Labels: anthroptic, guerilla art, kinetic, public art
posted by Ethan at
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1 Comments:
I really love the black toobs. I think they may be a part of a cover-up story, though. I think that video is actually documentation of an alien invasion by a very mellow, easy-to-get-alomg-with Cthulhuloid tentacle alien.
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