Posts Tagged ‘carbondale’
deploy at Walmart
August 22, 2009
Mobile Sculpture, sketchbook page, 2000 At some point it occurred to me that you could “park” / install / display / deploy a mobile sculpture at Walmart or some other retail store parking lot fairly easily. You have a captive, if likely bemused / uninterested, audience and some super absurd awesomeness. Never did follow thru [...]
2009 | News | Tags: 2000, absurd, action, carbondale, deploy, install, lander, mobile sculpture, muji, parking lot, performance, retail, skelmanthorpe, walmartComments (1)
mobile drop ship concertina sculpture
August 21, 2009
Sketchbook, wheeled concertina sculpture, 2000 Sketchbook, wheeled concertina sculpture, 2000
2009 | News | Tags: carbondale, concertina, drop ship, grid, idea, installation, mobile, muji, sculpture, skelmanthorpe, sketch, sketchbook, wheeled
Post It Note drawings
August 20, 2009
Post it Note sketch, 2000 Posting has been slow of late as i prepare for the start of the school semester, i’m teaching courses at SAIC and UIC in the fall and with the new term only days away at UIC i’m putting the finishing touches to the syllabus and what not. It’s great to [...]
2009 | News | Tags: 2000, accordian, carbondale, concertina, drawings, expanding, Holly Holmes, huddersfield, installation, MAN PORT, mobile, muji, permutations, post it notes, sculpture, sewing machine, skelmanthorpe, sketchbook, think map, unfolding, VEH PORT MOD
Permutations (unfolding pyramid), Carbondale, 2001
July 10, 2009
Permutations (unfolding pyramid), pen and colored pencil on overlay paper, 2001 This is a pseudo-isometric drawing from 2001 showing a pyramid form emerging from a cube. this piece went on to be developed as a 2 foot square sculpture in card board that has been lost :( . I plan to remake the sculpture asap. [...]
2009 | News | Tags: 2001, carbondale, drawing, iso, isometric, overlay, permutations, pyramid, tom burtonwood, unfolding
Studio, Carbondale circa 1999-ish
June 9, 2009
wow. i found this photo today. and i’m totally thrilled about this work again! i gotta get in the studio for sure. sad thing is i don’t have ANY of this work anymore. it either got trashed or gven away. i f anyone has any of these pieces please let me know they went to [...]
2009 | News | Tags: 1999, 2000, carbondale, constructions, glove factory, paint, southern illinois university, structuralist, tom burtonwood, wood
Making messes
June 2, 2009
…work in progress, 2001 (installation with David Lohman and David Constable / with Jason Pritchett on the audio component… link> Institutional Critique ) This photograph documents that chaos created when 3 artists collaborate on a site specific installation deep within the “corridors of power.” Revisiting the scene of a prior installation Burtonwood and Lohman brought [...]
2009 | News | Tags: 2000, Audio, carbondale, david constable, david lohman, documentation, glitchy, institutional critique, jason pritchett, mess, photograph, siuc, still life, tannoy, techno, work in progress
Overload Aesthetics
June 1, 2009
Studio, Carbondale, 2000 In keeping with the diagonal slant of the previous post i present this snap shot of my studio, circa 2000, at the Glove Factory, Carbondale. One of my abiding interests are systems and the information they require to exist andthe data the produce. Part of this fascination includes being overwhelmed by information, [...]
2009 | News | Tags: aesthetics, carbondale, data, glove factory, information, junk mail, landscape, overload, phenomena, siuc, systems, tom burtonwood
Tibor Kalman: Fuck Committees
May 12, 2009
Fuck Committees, Tibor Kalman. Tibor Kalman was a big influence on my thesis show work in Carbondale. This text is from “Tibor Kalman, Perverse Optimist” edited by Peter Hall and Michael Bierut, pub. Princeton Architectural Press (September 1, 2000). Upon reading this text i knoew i had to convene my own committees to decide on [...]
2009 | Uncategorized | Tags: carbondale, committees, fuck, MFA, photocopies, photocopy, thesis show, tibor kalmanComments (4)
Mobile Sculpture: Lander
May 11, 2009
Lander, Cardboard and mixed media, 2000 Lander was the next generation of mobile sculptures i produced at SIUC. The Lander was a in military speak a MANP (Man Portable) sculpture. Drawing inspiration from the Apollo Eagle Lunar Lander the piece folded into a compact rectangle that could be carried as a backpack. A standard camera [...]
2009 | News | Tags: 2000, adminstrative, amtrak, aps, art work, carbondale, chicago, integrated, intersection, lander, minneapolis, mobile, proliferation, sculpture, system, systems, thanksgiving, uptown, yellow
Mobile Sculpture, Carbondale, IL, 2000
May 9, 2009
This is one of my first experiments with mobile sculpture / art that can be deployed easily (in public, or elsewhere). This piece was constructed using cardboard boxes hoarded from the local liquor store, embedded around a garment rack and painted bright yellow. the intention at best was to create something utterly jarring to the [...]