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Territories and Infrastructure, Version Fest, Chicago IL, 04/22/10 – 05/03/10

April 18, 2010

Harlequin (Prototype)
Mixed Media
Dims var.
2010

Opening Of Version Festival
Territories Group Exhibition
@ Zhou B Center (1029 W 35th St)
www.zbcenter.org
7-10pm – exhibition runs through May 3 Opening night of Version 10 begins with Territories, a group exhibition. Meet participating artists and get an advanced look at the festival program ahead. Features work by: Tomas Moreno, Chad Gerth, Hui-min Tsen, Chris Larson, Hideous Beast (Josh Ippel, Charlie Roderick), Tim Graham, Jennifer Mills, Xavier Nuez, Miguel Guzman, Monument 1.5, Alexa Loftus, Peter Feigenbaum, Aron Gent, Aaron Delehanty, Holly Holmes, Before Cake after Dinner, Se Young, Brian Murer, Erik DeBat, Sarah Ross, Bill Mackey, Mike Slattery, Tom Burtonwood, Kariel ( Karri Kuoppala and Muriel Laesser), Heloisa Escudero, Jeff Zimmerman, Lise Haller Baggesen, Gitte Bog, Gudrun Hasle, Anni Holm, Berit Nørgaard, & Niels Post.

Curated by Dayton Castleman & Ed Marszewski

(Exhibition runs through May 3rd, Open Sat 12-5pm and by appointment: 773 837 0145)

Posted in Exhibitions, News | Also tagged 2010, april, boxes, Bridgeport, chicago, color, contrast, exhibition, folding, installation, mobile, module, sculpture, square, Territories, unfolding, unraveling, Vers10n Fest, VErsion Fest, vibrant, vivid, Zhou B Center |

Chasing Two Rabbits, screening, Three Walls, Chicago, IL, 02/26/10

February 27, 2010

(Live) Translations from tom burtonwood on Vimeo.

Translations, projected / performed live at Three Walls as part of Chasing Two Rabbits. Thank you to Jacob C. Hammes for his awesome musical accompaniment / score. Big thank you to Andrew Rigsby, Travis Saul and R James Healy for their help with all things animation, Maya & Final Cut. Also many thanks to Shannon Stratton and Sonia Yoon for organizing the event and asking me to take part.

Posted in Exhibitions | Also tagged animation, Chasing Two Rabbits, event, folding, geometric, Jacob C. Hammes, live, maya, performance, screening, three walls, Time Based, unfolding |

Translations

February 25, 2010

Translations from tom burtonwood on Vimeo.

Final version. Titled “Translations.” Come to Three Walls on Friday Feb 26th, doors at 6pm to see it in person.

Posted in News | Also tagged 2010, Chasing Two Rabbits, folding, Jacob C. Hammes, performance, permutations, screening, three walls, translations, unfolding |

first draft

February 22, 2010

first draft of the new animation for threewalls screening on friday, i’m really happy with some bits of this, other bits need to be tweaked, but i’ve got like 3-4 more sequences ready to plug in and a few more that haven’t been made in maya yet, but i’m liking the retro, glitchy feel to the visuals and loving the unfolding cubes….. now if only i could make these in real life… if you wanna see this finished and projected on a wall with awesome musical accompaniment hustle on over to threewalls on friday.

Posted in News | Also tagged 2010, animation, cuboid, drawing, final cut pro, first draft, fold, folding, maya, three walls, Time Based, unfolding |

ravin rabbids

February 22, 2010

here’s a sneak preview of one of the sequences for the upcoming screening at Three Walls on friday, it cuts off a bit a the beginning and runs a bit fast but i’ll fix that for friday. Events details are as follows:

Friday February 26, 2010

Chasing Two Rabbits

Friday, February 26^th, 2010.

Doors at 6pm, Program starts at 7pm

Suggested Donation: $10.00

Chasing Two Rabbits is a special event curated by Sonia Yoon and Shannon Stratton that pairs animators with live performances by sound artists and musicians. Inspired by the experimental films of Norman McLaren, who combined abstract imagery (including scratching and painting into the film stock in earlier work, as well as paper cut-outs and live action and dance) with imaginative music and sound, Chasing Two Rabbits, acts to pair artists in both genres to produce a unique event where, rather than leaving art to illustrate a story, perhaps sound and vision will illuminate each other.

The program for the evening will include animations by Gracen Brilmyer, Peter Burr, Tom Burtonwood, Dana Carter, Jodie Mack, Tracy Taylor, and Rebecca Schoenecker with sound by The Chicago Phonographers, Chris Hammes, Eric Zeigenhagen, Steve Lacy, Frank Van Duerm, Kotoka Suzuki, Cait Stevens, George Monteleone and Broken Chooser.

“If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.”

Posted in News | Also tagged 2010, animation, fold, grid, intersection, raving rabbids, three walls, Time Based, unfolding |

New work at (c)tas

February 17, 2010

New drawing / sculpture, as yet untitled. Pastel on paper, laser cut plywood, paint. Approx 16 x 30 inches. 2010

Holly and I have new pieces in a show opening at a new space called — The (Con)Temporary Art Space – in the Loop tomorrow (thursday the 18th) night. “An Evening with your Contemporaries” features art works from artists including Ed Marszewski, Rachel Marszewski, Emily Clayton, Theordore Darst, Henry James Glover, Serena Himmlefarb, Sara Louden, Chris Roberson, Andrew Rigsby, Douglas Burns and Holly Holmes. Opening is from 4.30 – 8.30pm. (C)TAS is located at 208 South Wabash, Chicago, IL. For a sneak peak of the show / space check out my flickr set.

(C)TAS is brought to you by the folks who produce Proximity, Lumpen, Version Vest and the Co-Prosperity Sphere, The (Con)Temporary Art Space is a an avenue for discussion, research and action. The former retail space will be used as a working studio by cultural workers, producers, artists and designers for projects they are working on collectively and individually. The Public will be able to absorb these presentations as well as share their ideas about contemporary art. The (Con)Temporary Art Space will function as a information center and a place to learn about Chicago’s diverse art ecology.

Holly has some work in UnCommon Territories, opening Friday night (the 19th) at Heaven Gallery too! So we’re pretty crazed this week, but if you’re out and about stop by and say hi.

Holly Holmes, Grow Club. Seeds, Vacuum Formed Plastic. Dims var. 2009

Posted in Exhibitions, News | Also tagged (c)tas), 2010, an evening with your contemporaries, construction, drawing, exhibitions, geometric, grow club, guerilla retail, heaven gallery, Holly Holmes, laser cut, loop, New work, pop up art, public sphere, synergy, the contemporary art space, uncommon territories |

Permutation 495

February 16, 2010

Permutation_495 from tom burtonwood on Vimeo.

Posted in News | Also tagged 2010, animation, folding, hiding, maya, permutation, revealing, square, Time Based, unfolding, vimeo |

new drawings

January 26, 2010

Half way thru uploading some new drawings to flickr produced this last month. I’m really happy with the direction the work is taking. it’s certainly giving me some pause as i circle around almost fifteen years in terms of interest and output, back to the humble cube and all the variants and possibilities it offers. Look out for new installations, animations, sculpture, video and drawings in the months to come.

The focus of these drawings has been two fold (ha! pun). first to make some schematics for custom sections akin to tetris blocks for new sculpture i’m planning, cut first on laser cutter and then assembled spore like in the studio and painted. second to continue to try and solve the problem of making a cube flatten completely to a square a conundrum i;d like to realize in both sculpture and time based medium > which gave rise to a good number of drawings riffing off tetris like patterning and then finally some drawings taking the square as building block rather than the cube per se and of course comnig bakc around to make patterns based on the square too.

stay tuned. all will be revealed!

Posted in News | Also tagged drawing, flattening, module, networking, New work, opening, revealing, square, unfolding, unraveling, unwrapping |

Permuations 1.0 second draft

November 1, 2009

Permutations 1.0 (second draft)

Wow. this took forever to get in a complete form, scanned in and sequenced. somewhere along the road i lost frames 52 – 55 prior to scanning them in. i’m sure they are around here somewhere but the fact they haven;’t surfaced in day to day activity suggests they may be gone… :(

eventually i’ll add some noise to this and sign off on it once and for all. i’m pretty happy with this but it’s more important to me as a stepping stone, a marker leading to other cooler, more exciting and mind bending ideas.

inverting of ground came from seeing Alexander Stewart’s recent animations of a similar geometric / isometric direction.

Posted in News | Also tagged 2009, alexander stewart, animated gif, isometric, noise, permutations, rotation, second draft |

shorted animation

October 7, 2009

perm2

i have to say after a month or so of working on this piece i;m not really all that happy with it. in the spirit of keeping this public “studio” honest and complete i decided to post the animation. it’s hard to say exactly what irks me about this, i think when i started out i didn’t really think about how the different frames would relate in sequence, each frame by itself is exciting and stimulating, but seen together in sequence they don’t really convey the idea i have been shooting for. i culled them down to 7 or 8 frames that seemed to work well together from a possible group of 50 or so. without much further ado i’m going to pull this one off the animation stand and start fresh.

stay tuned.

Posted in News | Also tagged 2009, animated gif, animation, critique, display unit, pastel on paper |

pyramid / beacon / node

August 6, 2009

pyramid / beacon / node

drawing for sculpture. pyramid / beacon / node. i’ll be remaking this piece which was originally made in 1997 – 1998, and lost. also had some wild ideas for animations. got to get “Permutations #1″ finished and made a camera stand, so hopefully soon i get it all plotted in, key out a couple more frames and move on to adding sound, color sequences and so forth. additionally i’m hoping to start some new animations using the pastel / paper, again should have something to show soon.

Posted in News | Also tagged 2009, beacon, cuboid, hidden, isometric, metaphor, node, pyramid, unfolding, web |

Pattern Recognition

July 25, 2009

Pattern Recognition, pastel on paper, 14.5 x 16.5 inches, 2009

This is the second drawing in the new series.

Posted in News | Also tagged convergence, paper, pastel, pattern recognition, prism, refraction, tom burtonwood |

new work

July 19, 2009

Permutation, pastel on paper, 2009

First drawing in new series of work (95% finished).

Posted in News | Also tagged 2009, drawing, july, new direction, New work, packages, paper, pastel, permutations, sections, structures, systems, tom burtonwood, unfolding, units |

Permutations 1.0 (first draft)

June 30, 2009

This sequence is missing a section from the end, where the cube will re-form from a spinning plane– will post this l8tr

Posted in News | Also tagged animation, june 2009, permutations, Time Based, tom burtonwood, unfolding, variations |

new sketchbook project

June 27, 2009

Permutations I, time line, sketchbook page. June 2009

Working on a new project, Permutations, an animated sequence showing several variations on a unfolding cube. Sketchbook page sequence below shows a range of possible final unfolded outcomes, currently i’m working on the “master” drawings for the first full sequence. hope to have these complete by middle of week in draft format. really excited about this direction, eventually the final animation will have an audio component too.

Sketchbook sequence. June 2009

Animation sequence below shows first 7 or 8 frames from the upcoming Permutations piece….. can’t wait to get all this done and start playing with these “Containers” and adding some content!

Permutations, opening sequence, June 2009

Posted in News | Also tagged animation, containers, frameworks, june 2009, permutations, sequence, structure, systems, Time Based, tom burtonwood, unfolding |